Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 21:14:45 -0500 From: Corvin Russell <corvinr@sympatico.ca> Message-ID: <20001226211445.A10564@cloud.of.unknowing.org> Subject: Re: [SLE] Chirstmas parts ????? My main problem here is that what was apparently originally an offline conversation (correct me if I'm wrong) was needlessly put online. If this was on purpose and without your interlocutor's consent, it seems morally unsound. Please be sure to check incoming mail headers before automatically responding to the list. The evident intent of someone who responds privately and not to the list is to not broadcast their comments, and it is only in exceptional and compelling circumstances that this wish should be disrespected. Thanks, Corvin <p>>

On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, you wrote:

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So everybody should just give shit to you for no real reason.

Ha.

Believe or not, but yes. I started my 'wulf project about 18 months ago. In that time I've had people from all over the world sent me all types of parts and whole computers. Allot of what I've got has come from the SuSE list. These are a great group of people (can't say guys, there are a few girls on the list <G>). Yours is the first negative post I've got in these 18 months.

I just got last week a 15" monitor from a guy here in Germany. A friend in Holland sent me three whole systems last June. So far I've got parts from Germany, Holland, UK, Canada, US, Japan, and Israel. Over all I've gotten enough to build 5 486s or PIs.

I'm not asking anyone to run downtown and buy anything for me. In fact that is not the idea at all. Today there are millions of dollars of useable computer parts just laying around or worst being thrown away. What I am doing (and showing) is that these parts are not only still usable, they are still worth using.

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Anf if anyone has a spare Cray for me.. I am working on a port :) Happy Whatever

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Cliff

Don't have one at the moment, but I was offered a PDP 11 (/45 or /70, I don't remember which). But I turned it down because I could not afford the shipping from Texas to Germany.

Later!

-- Jim Hatridge

<p> -- Corvin Russell <corvinr@sympatico.ca>