[balug-talk] (forw) Quantity of VA Linux Servers to donate

[Michael T. Halligan]

Rick Moen wrote:
> This fellow's looking to donate these 20-30 VA Linux PIII 2U rackmount
> servers to some worthy cause such as a school or college.  I have no 
> idea what he considers a worthy enough cause, but telephone him if
> interested.  (Please don't call or write me; I have no connection to
> this offer, and just said I'd pass it along.)
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Casey DuBois <cdubois at n-vint.com> -----
>
> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:16:08 -0500
> From: Casey DuBois <cdubois at n-vint.com>
> To: rick at linuxmafia.com
> Subject: Quantity of VA Linux Servers to donate
>
> Rick,
> Thanks again for your time today.
> We are looking to donate the following systems over the next few weeks:
> 20-30 legacy VA Linux servers they are rack mounted and have 1 floppy
> drive each.
> 2 x 500 MHz Pentium III CPU's
> 512MB or 1 GB RAM
> 1 x 20 GB IDE HDD (some are larger - 40 GB or 80 GB)
> 1 x 10/100 Network port
> Sincerely,
>  
> Casey M. DuBois
> N-VINT, Inc.
> 616-656-5500 Office 
> 866-337-2686 Direct 24x7
> AOL IM: CaseyNVINT
> cdubois at n-vint.com
>  
> "The way to think of a supercomputer is as a special-purpose device.
> Only with these devices can we perform this cutting-edge research." 
> - Jack Dongarra 
>  
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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*sigh*

I remember when VALinux was still hot, and their servers were more 
reliable than any other x86 based whitebox servers.