[57north-discuss] Equipment donations (was Re: maybe catch up sessions for some?)

[Iain R. Learmonth]

On 09/03/14 20:48, Tony Shannon wrote:
> Regarding the other machines etc, would be best to get details of the
> machines in question, but in principal anything that is working & not
> really old is likely to be of use.
> 

+1

> However (personal opinion, others may disagree) I would usually recommend
> against donations that are known to be faulty, unless a specific member has
> a project in mind or is volunteering to assess / fix the machines in
> question (feel free to volunteer folks!) as otherwise it is likely to
> remain unfixed, as many of us are already juggling many exuding projects!

+1

We do need some workstations for the benches. We still need to assess
the Opteron 200 boxes though and I suggest we don't take any new
machines until we've got them working.

Iain.

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