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  • From: Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] On offer: Computer with 4 optical drives (OT)
  • Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:39:48 -0500

Hello All,

Trying to give away an old computer is like trying to give away discarded eggshells, but here goes:

Somebody has passed on to me a monster (7-3/4 inch wide, 24-1/2 inch high, 17 inch deep) computer with 4 optical drives--apparently, one master and 3 slaves. (This is a PC, not a Mac.)

I tried to get this thing going so I could load onto it a decent operating system. (It's always been set up as a Micro$oft machine.) I had no luck, but at least I brought up enough of a response to ascertain that it is functional.

The problem, I'm told, is that a Microsoft (or DOS) boot disk is required, since certain aspects of the BIOS have been disabled--I think maybe the entire machine was once set up as a slave/adjunct to a larger system, and this machine was not intended to operate as an independent box. With a proper MS boot disk, you could blow away all that stuff and start from scratch.

If the above sounds like I don't know what I'm talking about--that's right. But as said, as far as I can determine this machine is still functional, for anyone who knows how to start it from zero, pre-boot phase. It is an older machine, to be sure, but the big appeal for anyone who routinely makes a lot of CD copies would be the multiple optical drives, I would think.

Anyway, for a limited time it is on offer. Free for the hauling. No guarantees of any sort. Geek special.

I'm in northern Virginia, middle of triangle Front Royal - Warrenton - Marshall.

If interested, please reply to me directly at
harvey@themodernhomestead.us

~Harvey

PS: For that matter I have another older computer (also a PC, not a Mac) that is also on offer, for parts. It failed me, but I'm not enough of a geek to know where the failure was. (I had recently had the motherboard replaced.) So I replaced it with a new machine. The old one might be useful for the power supply, the motherboard, or other parts. The optical drive may or may not be good (details available), and I have physically destroyed the hard drive.

--
Harvey in northern Va
www.themodernhomestead.us

Our model citizen is a sophisticate who before puberty understands how to
produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a
potato. ~Wendell Berry





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