[seul-edu] [Fwd: Free 36-port hub for a Bay Area School]

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

> ----- Forwarded message from William Abernathy <william@inch.com> -----
>
> From: William Abernathy <william@inch.com>
> Subject: Free 36-port hub for a Bay Area School
>
> A teacher friend of mine asked for a hub to make his lab go. Before he
> could pick it up, he headed out to New York. Now I have a hub, lovingly
> finagled out of Billy the Junk Man (if you live in San Francisco, you
> should check out Ace Auto Dismantlers--excellent scrounging!) and
> looking for a good home.
>
> It's 10BaseT Ether, about the size of a mid-tower (not a rack-mount),
> and it's grotty (I got it out of a junkyard, after all). As far as I
> know, it works, but as far as I know it's broken as well. (Think of it
> as Schrodinger's Hub. Until you plug it in, it both works and does not
> work.)
>
> I will give this thing to anyone with a good educational use for it
> (might I suggest circumventing SF Unified's IP address rationing
> program?). In fact, I will give it to you if you are a teacher who has a
> wicked non-educational use for it. Email me, and come 'n' git it.
>
> --William Abernathy
> --william@inch.com
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----

Don't reply to me about this; wend email to William if you're interested in
it, OK?

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