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Article #916Re: Austin Free-Net?
From: Richard Childers
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1992 15:27
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1992 15:27
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"Other than that, you're gonna have to get the hardware (the
software is free, but the licensing agreement is weird at best)
and then find some place to stick it."
This could also be donated. Used once-upon-a-time-state-of-the-art
hardware exists. You wouldn't want a Sun 2, but there are Sun 3/180s
with 8- and 16-port serial cards that are probably gathering dust in
data centers abd MIS departments throughout your local Silicon Valley.
A site here in San Francisco, toad.com, once gave away a couple of
Fujitsu M2351s, reasonably large hard disks with a reasonably good
record of reliability. This isn't common, but if the word went out,
and a tax deduction came along with it, that would be an Incentive
to many organizations. After all, floorspace == money, and so does
cooling. ( This should be explicitly mentioned in any efforts made
to pitch this to anyone. )
-- richard
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 126c00,e58b587209bc8a77 X-Google-Attributes: gid126c00,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-09-18 12:17:28 PST Newsgroups: austin.eff Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!sgiblab!swrinde!news.dell.com!natinst.com!cs.utexas.edu!tic.com!riddle From: rchilder@us.oracle.com (Richard Childers) Subject: Re: Austin Free-Net? Message-ID: <1992Sep18.222301.3518@tic.com> Originator: riddle@aahsa.tic.com Sender: news@tic.com Nntp-Posting-Host: aahsa.tic.com X-Submissions: eff-austin@tic.com Organization: none Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1992 15:27:52 GMT Approved: riddle@tic.com (Moderator, Prentiss Riddle) Lines: 23