[frgeek-michiana] Fwd: Re: Netvista Thin Clients

I spoke to Scott Spieker on phone this morning. I told him we want $40/untested, $50/tested and $100/preconfigured and tested -- all units are as-is, no warranty of any kind, no returns.

Scott is leaning toward raw Netvistas. He has forty (40) D-Link DFE-530TX NICs ready to install. He seems willing to put his own time into obtaining and burning the compact flash cards and installing the NICs -- our howto apparently builds confidence.

Scott can arrange for commercial transport if we properly box the units and put them on pallets. There lays the rub. We need a local company to donate space and materials to palletize the Netvistas and keep them around until a truck arrives to haul them away. If we have to pay for the service, the unit prices need to reflect our additional costs. If we can't find a donor or a service, we'll have to deliver the Netvistas ourselves to Cleveland (Mentor, OH).

We also need to do a complete inventory so I can tell Scott what we have to sell.

Tom

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 16:50:20 -0500
To: FreeGeekMichiana_core
From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Netvista Thin Clients

Can someone find a low cost supplier for 2-4MB compact flash cards? We'll may also need a gaggle of 10/100 NICs, such as rtl8139 or another inexpensive chipset. I believe D-Link 530 series NICs are selling for about $5.00, new in quantity.

I'm putting together the proposal to sell the Netvistas since that is the consensus.

Tom

At 06:06 PM 5/22/04 -0400, you wrote: 
They look like they are going for $20 - 30 on eBay.  I'd charge $40 - 50
tested, as-is; or $80 - 100 pre-configured w/ cf and 10/100 ethernet nic.
New machines with similar specs are going for $200 - 300.

Mike

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> What do you think? Let's have some proposals and take a vote.
>
> Tom
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