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Australian Computer Museum Looking For Space

Posted by timothy on from the plaint dept.

tqft writes "The Australian Computer Museum Society needs space. Basically they have nowhere to store their large collection of hardware. Can you help? Do you or your employer have the floor space they could use? Or should it all be trashed?"

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  1. Sure, give them to me... by kisielk · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think I might be able to fit a few more computers in to my bedroom. Bring 'em on I say!

  2. They can have as much as they want! by teamhasnoi · · Score: 2, Funny

    Look up! It's all the space you could ever use!

    1. Re:They can have as much as they want! by Pseudonym · · Score: 3, Funny

      There's always under ground, near the Earth's core, where it's still warm. Live long enough, you might even see it...

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  3. Only if..... by coday · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can use the hard drives to generate free electricity

  4. I also have many crappy computers needing storage by IvyMike · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let me in on the final solution, since I have quite a large amount of computer crap, including:

    • A fuzzy 17 inch monitor
    • An old Indigo2 computer sans hard drive (and more imporantly, sans hard drive bracket.)
    • A dual Pentium Pro 180, with 3 GB SCSI hard drive
    • An old AMD computer, processor type forgotten. (Probably about a 400 Mhz) something.
    • Some sort of IDE raid card
    • About 12 hard drives totaling 8 GB of storage

    And that's just the stuff I can see without turning my head. And based on other stories/comments/etc., I KNOW I'm nowhere near the worst "collector" out there.

  5. Computers... by Jacer · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll store a few away, I've got some space right here on my desk. Don't happen to have any new 3.0+ghz boxes that need to be 'stored'?

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  6. Australian History? by evilviper · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hmm, I suppose a "Computer Museum" (considering the speed of technology) would be the only type of museum Australia could really have...

    I've heard the paintings in the Australian art museum are almost dry now.

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    1. Re:Australian History? by isorox · · Score: 2, Funny

      NY is full of "sub-human monkey people" though, just 40,000 years later then AUS, typical americans :p

  7. What??? by djupedal · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're asking me?

    I have a house full of old computers and typewriters and terminals...and then there is stuff in storage and more stuff at friends and relatives houses...you're on your own. And don't look for someone to buy it as scrap...they'll spend their time trying to get you to take more junk off their hands.

    Museum....is that what you call it? That's rich...very funny. I tried that line years ago, and no one fell for it then, so I think you need to face up to the fact that you have a lot of junk...just like everyone else.

  8. Re:I also have many crappy computers needing stora by sk3tch · · Score: 2, Funny

    Quit tryin' to use Slashdot as your own personal eBay.... ....So, how much for that dual PPro? :)

  9. Last I checked... by Kethinov · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... there was plenty of space in the outback...

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  10. Re:Dupes by Pseudonym · · Score: 5, Funny
    Get rid of the duplicates [...]

    You're new around here, aren't you?

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  11. 1400 Smith St. by NeoMoose · · Score: 4, Funny

    1400 Smith St in Houston, TX. Enron's headquarters is a gigantic 50-story building and is only using about 10 of those floors now.

    That's 40 floors of free space.

  12. Mirror by dd22 · · Score: 3, Funny


    Mirror here

  13. Re:1000 meters^2? by radish · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess I should thought befor I wrote

    You're new here aren't you?

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  14. well, that explains it. by slittle · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought that thing Agent Smith put in Neo's gut looked suspiciously like a vacuum tube...

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  15. Re:I could tell you why by tuxedo-steve · · Score: 4, Funny
    But probably they would just take up too much space and he would be forced to porn them for five bucks.
    I'd porn them myself, but I really believe museums should be a family venue. *Imagines an old VAX getting humped by a PDP-11*

    Also, if the porning process is also going to involve the cordless drill and the slimjim, I'd definitely be asking more than five bucks.
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  16. Forget them... by DrWhizBang · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm running out of space myself, and if i can't solve it quick I'll have to give up my collection of MFM hardrives...

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  17. Looking for Space. by Spudley · · Score: 4, Funny

    Museum looking for space

    I would just tell them to look up during the night. You can't miss it.

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  18. Re:I also have many crappy computers needing stora by Migrant+Programmer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Probably 100 kilograms of 8086 PCs

    So, including the cases and drives, that works out to about.. two of them? =)

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  19. Collection to be Crushed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Someone go teach them about Ebay.

  20. A fair trade by thelenm · · Score: 2, Funny

    Australian Computer Museum Looking For Space

    What a coincidence, the Australian Space Museum is looking for computers! Why don't they just trade?

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