The collected works of occhamrazor

Well, after a lot of things belonging in category "other" (including no internet) I now have found the time to come here and answer any questions about the system you are talking about.
Thing is it wasn't me who "won" the bidding, it was a friend of mine who found that he "cannot be bothered" with these machines any more. He thought that he was bidding on scrap metal and parts but the auctioneers said that it is mostly working, 52 of the 64 CPUs are still working.
It also turned out that the knowledge of getting these monsters to work was something we did not have, Nor the power capacity.

so... any suggestions what we should do with these monsters? (except cleaning them up which I've done)

/H

chicaneuk wrote: Well the killer question was - did you really only pay $4 for the whole system?

Yes.

Well, the bdding started out at 10 Kr ($1.2-ish) and my friend jokingly accepted that bid. Then another friend also thought that it would be fun to at least have bidded on the thing and said 20 Kr... My first friend was kind of caught up with it all and said 30... and then there was a silence.
Sold! here you go.
He texts me with a picture and says 30 Kr! and I go "wow, what a bargain, you gonna bid?"
And he replies: no, no no I have won! for 30! I need to get them out of here!....

$130-ish later they are safely in storage at another place. waiting.

I suspected it would be easier to sell parts than the whole thing...
I'm willing to tear it apart again (it was really easy) and send the components anywhere if people are interested. Pick-ups are of course preferred.

Please spread the word if you think there might be someone interested, I really think it would be a shame to throw anything away.
I really have no way of powering them nor any specific use nor skill to use them so if they are more useful as spare parts, so be it.

The documentation that came with was the standard manuals (which I have only glanced through), I don't know how one can see what type of CPUs or other specs are in the system. I'll do some research and figure out what I can.
I can take pictures of any component that you want.

I'm not in the habit of logging in here yet (hence the late reply) so if you want a quick(er) answer(s) mail me at henrik(a)affordance.se