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Title: XT Luggable - AU
Post by: trievalot on Fri, 02 July 2010, 17:00:21

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Title: XT Luggable - AU
Post by: ricercar on Fri, 02 July 2010, 21:54:52

There's a genuine 8088 Compaq "portable" for $40 at a surplus place in Sunnyvale CA. Weighs too much to carry home on my bicycle. I'd tip over if I put it in a saddle bag.

Title: XT Luggable - AU
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sat, 03 July 2010, 13:33:30

Quote from: ricercar;198884

There's a genuine 8088 Compaq "portable" for $40 at a surplus place in Sunnyvale CA. Weighs too much to carry home on my bicycle. I'd tip over if I put it in a saddle bag.

Bicycle? I do it the old fashioned way and carry stuff like that home.

Title: XT Luggable - AU
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 03 July 2010, 20:25:53

I've taken home desktop computers from work on a bicycle. (And my 5-mile ride's got some pretty steep hills)

Title: XT Luggable - AU
Post by: Nonmouse on Sat, 03 July 2010, 20:52:38

Pfft.  I've taken home full server racks on my unicycle in the rain, over twenty miles, all uphill.  With one pedal missing.

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Title: XT Luggable - AU
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 03 July 2010, 20:54:18

Oh yeah? When I was a kid, I lived in a cardboard box in the middle of the Sahara desert and had to walk in the sun 25 hours a day in order to drink from a mud puddle. Oh wait a second--That actually happens!

Title: XT Luggable - AU
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sat, 03 July 2010, 21:45:55

Oh yeah? I had to walk 100 miles through a sewer, 2 miles through a desert, and 20 miles through a blizzarding snow storm just to get to the shoebox which had my computer.

Title: XT Luggable - AU
Post by: ch_123 on Sun, 04 July 2010, 15:36:05

I've taken 20Kg+ rack servers on busses and trains before. My back didn't exactly love me for it, but I lived.

Title: XT Luggable - AU
Post by: Superfluous Parentheses on Sun, 04 July 2010, 17:11:44

Quote from: ch_123;199412

I've taken 20Kg+ rack servers on busses and trains before. My back didn't exactly love me for it, but I lived.

That's how I got my current server to the data center. Living without a driver's license is usually not as annoying as that.