On Wednesday, September 6, 2017, Brendan Horan <bren...@horan.hk> wrote: > Hi R0b0t1, > > Sounds good to me. > Shipping a 30kg+ system by it self will not be cheep. > This is originally why I had the idea to ship all the systems together. >
I thought so. Shipping will still be cheaper than a used unit from someone else, so thank you. > Specs are : > http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_sm/1/872/ENUS8203-_h01/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en > > Sorry its a single 4-core CPU. > That is fine. I did not expect to come into a 40+ core POWER server any time soon. The cheaper servers are about as rare as the expensive ones. > Lets talk about shipping options, I am open to suggestions and ideas. > If you do not mind I am moving to a private message to discuss this. In short, time is not too important so the cheapest of the carriers available to you would work. I should be able to buy postage and transmit it to you if you have a box and scale ready. > Thanks > Brendan (irc : undersys) > > > ----- On 6 Sep, 2017, at 2:04 PM, R0b0t1 r03...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> I would very much appreciate it if I could claim the IBM Power server. >>> I have been interested in IBM's Power architecture and its supporting >>> hardware for quite a while now. There are not many machines sold on >>> the secondhand market and I do not have the funds to purchase one in >>> that way. >> >> Sorry for the follow-up. To clarify, I expect to be able to cover the >> cost of shipping. >> >>> The specs are mostly irrelevant as long as it has a Power >>> CPU, but they would be nice to know. >>> >>> The use for the machine would be to experiment with the novel >>> architecture while maintaining it with Gentoo, which would likely >>> spill over into providing support for Gentoo on IBM Power. >>> >>> I will try to catch you on IRC, but hopefully you receive this message as well. >>> >>> Respectfully, >> > R0b0t1 > >
