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Somebody I know was just offered a SunFire 6800, free and gratis, on the condition that he take the Sun enterprise rack it's housed in as well (as shown in the photo).
Why?
"The rack doesn't match our new corporate color scheme."
I shit you not.
And, on a related subject, another acquaintance just found an SGI 1600SW LCD monitor (17", 16:9, 1600x1024, 24-bit color, .23mm dot pitch) sitting in a box on a street corner in Mountain View. The monitor was marked as an engineering sample and not for sale, and the sign taped to the box said "FREE, WORKS".
Only in Silicon Valley....
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I worked for a Mortgage company. They were incestuously tied into Digital soon after I arrived, and many derogatory comments were made about the x86 state of the art Compaqs that made up the main backbone.
(Yes, Compaq bought Digital while I was there. It was beautiful from a humor standpoint.)
The one thing Digital had was the Alphas. And they were some hosses. We had one running sExChange (barely), and bought 2 of their biggest, baddest for Oracle. The engineers setting them up told us we got some of the first production of that model, it had been commendeered internally for design work.
CIO walks in, as we're installing, and starts screaming. (We called him Ike. For Ike Turner. Cause you never knew if you were getting roses or slapped. It was 50/50, and the context of the situation was irrelevant).
He was pissed that the "Enterprise class" rack was Gray. As opposed to the Black that they were sending us for the x86s.
He literally had us start disconnecting them - and was going to send them back (And replace them with what, damnifiknow), before somebody above him I think said "are you nuts?". Meanwhile, we found companies that would paint the racks whatever color.
My contribution: Gimme $30 outta petty cash, and haul 'em to the loading dock. Krylon. No runs, drips, or errors.
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