On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:25:10AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/14/2015 11:20 AM, Josip Rodin wrote: > > I didn't claim that, I just said the shipping cost range can be > > unreasonable. > > In fact, I would say even 40-50 EUR is entirely unreasonable for a machine > > that > > *maybe* costs that much now, and which is so battered that it will probably > > cost 0 EUR by the time it's rebooted once again - when it finally fails due > > to any one of its many ailments. > > Meh, it's still not that easy to get such hardware on eBay for that > price, at least not in Europe. I would also still consider 50 Euros > not to much for shipping. > > > You don't need the specific hardware, the only thing of value on it is the > > software, and you can have DSA rsync everything from the old machines, which > > also costs 0 EUR if we ignore man-hours :) > > Yeah, sure. But anyway, we will probably not need schroeder and lebrun > anyway. However, if there are any useful hardware components in them > that are hard to get by, it would still be great to keep them.
ISTR they're run-off-the-mill Fire V240s. OTOH perhaps this is a simple indicator why the port has been dying - if it takes a non-trivial amount of money to get a long-obsolete, over a decade old machine, it's not going to attract a lot of people. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.