Auction Goodness :D

Post by **gannon** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 4:55 pm

I just got back from a surplus auction up at Michigan Tech! I got 6 15" monitors, 5 17" monitors, and 4 Computers for $60!!!

The disapointing thing is that they had 19" and 21" monitors selling between $20-30, but I had already spent all the money I had on me

They also had a huge oscilloscope that went for $25, but that was way after I ran out of money

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 5:09 pm

I wish I was there...

Sounds like you did good though. Today I got a C64 floppy drive (1541-II) for 2.50 at a thrift store. But still, all that stuff for 60 bucks?!

Thats insane!!!

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 5:17 pm

Why is it that everything good has to be so damn far from my house? I would have gone had I know, a whole day in advance to drive and a reliable car. Getting computer equitment at that price would have made me sooo happy.

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 5:22 pm

So Gannon whatcha gonna do with all the monitors? You should make at least a MAME cab or something... You got the computer, and the monitor all you got to do is hack some keyboards, make a case and wire it all togeather!

Now I wish I was there!

Post by **gannon** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 5:26 pm

A MAME cabinet sounds like a good idea, but it would've been awesome to build one with a 21" monitor!

One of the computers I got is an old 70mhz sun microsystems ipc. I'm going to have to make a sun->condensed dsub 15 converter to play around with it though. But how could I pass it up for $1??
Also, all 6 of the 15" monitors I got were for $1 total, that's around $0.17 per monitor!!!

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 8:24 pm

Make a Linux Cluster!

Post by **gannon** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 9:13 pm

I already started to install linux on one of the machines, but it keeps on freezing at 15%. I'm going to install a different cd drive later and do it again.

Geebs61 · Post by **Geebs61** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 9:53 pm

There are auctoins like that in my town all the time... i should probably go to one of em, then sell the stuff for way more on ebay.

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 10:45 am

Check out this cluster. http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/ It goes 3.6 GFLOP.

You could do something like that with your 1 dollar computers, though I dought it would go that fast!

Post by **gannon** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 11:43 am

That's pretty cool. I have 2 450mhz computers and a 233mhz computer that I suppose I could put in a cluster, but I'm not sure if it's that necessary since I'm just using it for a file server for my lan.

s3ptic · Post by **s3ptic** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 12:06 pm

I wouldn't suggest a cluster, as they take a lot of maintenance, and if your using regular computers(as apposed to the mini-itxs) it will guzzle power. Although it could be pretty cool. Sounds like you got some good deals have fun with them.