9 May
2018
9 May
'18
8:01 a.m.
On Tue, 8 May 2018, Henry Bent wrote:
On 8 May 2018 at 18:32, Arthur Krewat
<krewat(a)kilonet.net> wrote:
It was all auctioned off. I went to that auction... it was the dot-com
bust auction where I saw things turn from being able to get a good deal
to a lot of stupid going on. I bought two boxes full of SCSI hard
drives for $79/ea. Turns out, it was about 20 drives and they were
mostly 4 and 9 gig Seagate HD's that still had a year or two left on
their warranty. I turned around and re-sold them, untested, but with
a copy of the warranty status for each one with it, for something like
$5 or 10/gig.
--
Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
KF5LGQ
On 5/8/2018 6:22 PM, Henry Bent wrote:
I have no idea where they are now. At the time they were in Austin,
TX. I imagine that they probably just went to one of those many IT
scrapyards, the warehouses full of old parts that the owners sell on
eBay. My father was the sysadmin for Deja News at the
time they were
bought by Google. I was told that the "buyout" consisted of some
Google folks showing up with a rack of drives, dumping all of Deja
News's data over a weekend, and then flying back out to Mountain
View.
Where are the original drives? Or tapes? (insert devilish grin
emoticon here)
ak