Subject: 3 spare PowerPC cards
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Gan Uesli Starling <oinkfreebiker@att.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/22/2001 19:59:02
I just came into posession of three PPC cards. I got them for free from work. 
I had scheduled an upgrade to one of our MTS 497 tower units. I asked the 
tech how much MTS was crediting us for them on trade-in, he said "nothing". 
So I said, in that case, leave them here. My boss said that I could have 
them, do whatever I liked with them. Here are the stats:

PPC 603E 8MB, copyright Motorolla 1994, 84-W8066F01B FAB REV A
01-W3066F 01E with daughter board 01-W3114F 01B

PPC 604 8MB, copyright Motorolla 1994, 84-W8066F01B FAB REV A
01-W3066F 01E with daughter board 01-W3171F 03D

PPC 604 8MB, copyright Motorolla 1998,  84-W8366F01B FAB REV A
1-W3066F 01A with daughter board 01-W3171F 03F

All three are the kind you slide into card cages. The machine they came out 
of cost my company over $100K. I don't figure they're really all that 
worthless. So I took them home and here they sit.

Is there anything NetBSD-ish that can be done with these beasts? Anybody care 
to maybe swap for them? Buy them? Or even just plain beg them away from me 
for some noble NetBSD-ish purpose? 

I know for a fact that the worked up until the instant the tech pulled all 
three of them out of the machine I was using the morning he came for the 
upgrade. The upgrade was hardware related to software we wanted to buy. MTS 
sold them as a package...all or nothing. Kind of a rip-off.

If nobody can think of any NetBSD-ish use, then I guess I'll be hunting up a 
salvage place to sell them to. I turned a tidy profit the last time a company 
I worked for insisted on throwing old boards away. But really, I'd rather see 
them go to some better use.

Regards,

Gan Starling
Kalamazoo MI

PS -- Yes, I know it's off-topic. But I figured there are some folks here 
what have helped me in the past so that maybe I owed them first shot.