Re: Any use for two Compaqs in Europe?

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 08:09:47PM -0700, Decibel! wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2007, at 8:31 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >Folks,
> >
> >Continuent has offered us two fairly current Compaq servers (specs
> >pending)
> >for donation. The machines are currently in Grenoble, France, and
> >we'd have
> >to supply transportation to whereever we want to host them.
> >
> >If they weren't in Europe, I could really use them for our
> >performance lab,
> >but intercontinental transport is liable to be more than they're
> >worth.
> >
> >So, is there somewhere we could use these?
>
> How heavy are they? Someone flying across the pond could potentially
> take them as checked luggage...

Been a while since you dealt with this kind of hardware, right? ;-)

If it's actualyil a compaq (and not a HP), it's very large. And even if
it's a modern HP, it's certainly not something you stick in your suitcase
;-)

//Magnus