At 01:10 PM -0400 06/18/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The various "National Laboratories" (Lawrence Livermore, Lawrence Berkeley, Los Alamos, Brookhaven, etcetera) often sell PMs and PBs in large lots. Used to be that an individual could bid on a pallet lot, but those days are long gone, and now only authorized bidders are allowed to bid.
Berkeley's physics dept used eBay. That's where I got my current desktop machine, loaded. Needed a lot of outside clean-up (dirt, stickers), but it ran perfectly right out of the shipping box. There's something ultra cool about knowing that your computer's previous life was in a grid used to simulate nuclear explosions and such.
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