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I've got a number of friends who work at Rackspace. They first started trying to get me to join then back in 2000 when I was president of the local LUG.
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<br />The guy who has been their lead Linux person since the beginning told me they've got two CLOSETS full of those older RAQs. He offered me a truck load of them, saying they'd have to throw them out sometime - but he hated to do that with these still capable units. Obviously, they couldn't do the modern stuff our current BX management system does - but they can handle simple websites well enough.
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<br />I'll check with him to see if they still have those or not. That was before they made the last big move to their current location here in San Antonio. So they might have cleaned house before/during the move.
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<br />Chuck
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From: Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet <cobaltfacts@virtbiz.com>
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To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List <blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it>
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Sent: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 22:17:00 -0600
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Subject: [BlueOnyx:16795] Re: Cobalt Raq3 - Free to good home
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<br />> > On Fri, 2 Jan 2015, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet wrote:
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>> Let me know if you are interested.
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> We're still using some RAQs for non-critical stuff, so would be glad to
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> give it a nice home. They don't eat much.
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It was first-come, first-served, and George was the quickest to raise
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his hand. Off to Ohio it goes!
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I'll let everyone know the next time we stumble across a similar
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artifact. We once ran almost 2 racks of Cobalts. Now at last check I
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counted only ONE Cobalt still in production in the datacenter, and it
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belongs to a customer.
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We have kept one example of each RaQ that has been in production under
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our watch. They live in our conference room / museum:
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<a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152300505973713">https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152300505973713</a>
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Top to bottom:
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RaQ (1)
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RaQ2
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RaQ3
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RaQ4
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RaQ XTR
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RaQ550
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Chris Gebhardt
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