[juneau-lug] LaserJet printers & NICs

Too late to do any shopping today, but a quick note about what's up at State 
Surplus-

They have several LaserJet 4M printers there - I counted four good ones, one 
"parts" machine, and a 4ML "parts" machine.

The LaserJet "M" models are cool for Linux as they're Postscript printers, so 
you don't need to worry about setting up ghostscript or anything like that to 
print to them.

Anyway, those printers will probably still be there next week.  There was one 
person shopping for printers when I was there, but he was interested in the big 
LaserJet III and 4si printers.

There was also a big box of NICs.  Most of them are ISA 3Com nics (3c509B and 
3c509C) or assorted ISA NE2000 clones (AtLantic chipset).  These are 10-base T 
ISA NICs, but both have Linux configuration utilities available.  Mixed in with 
these are a few 10/100 SMC PCI NICs (these use the 8139 driver).  The PCI NICs 
are buried at the bottom of the box, and some are hidden in anti-static bags.  
I bought a few, but there were probably five or six left.  There were probably 
20 to 30 of the ISA NICs there, so if you have any older hardware with ISA 
slots now's your chance to pick some up.

Not much action on the PC side of the house - there were a few Gateway P6-200s 
there, one of which had an internal Jaz drive.  I find the Pentium Pro boxes do 
a good job for web/ftp/mail servers.  Gateway used an OEM version of the Intel 
Venus motherboard for these, so they take 64MB 60ns EDO SIMMs and are single 
processor boards.  In my experience, very stable.  Everything else I saw was 
P166 or slower and pretty dinged up.  (Of course I didn't get there until 11AM, 
so all of the good stuff was gone.)  A few PowerMacs - 6100/66, Performa 6150 
CD, etc.

Some IBM keyboards are tucked in the corner.  If you don't like the Windows 
keys on your keyboard, the IBM keyboards don't have them.  I guess for the 
purists.

And to top it off, not one but _two_ kitchen sinks were in the furniture area.  
Surplus has it all.  And most of it will still be there next week.

Cheers,

James

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