[Cialug] Ciacug and general hardware

[David Champion]

Lauren Stole wrote:
> The Ciacug has gotten in more of the nice Compaq servers that Dave W 
> picked up awhile ago not sure how much they want.. Also they got in a 
> bunch of PIII dual processor and 2 gig ram boxes that they are letting 
> go for 300.. Nice Linux boxen.. I know this is a little off topic .. 
> Dave W if you interested email me off list and I'll check into it more.. 
> More on topic is AMD-K62 takes a different arch doesn't it or do you use 
> the i686 kernel I am trying to get a distro for a friend and want to 
> make sure it loads. I know a little naive of me but it has been awhile 
> for the AMDs.

Those dual P3 machines are probably really nice - I saw them when I was 
up there a couple weeks ago. Don't recall the model, but they're the 
heavy-duty HP workstations aimed at engineers. I believe they have scsi 
disk systems in them too. They'd make great servers.

-dc