On Thursday, 22 November 2001 at 19:59:02 -0500, Gan Uesli Starling wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.

Well, it's not off-topic on NetBSD-ppc, so I've copied them :-)

Greg
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