“Server Retirement”

Macrobyte's original Free-Conversant server was retired from the ISP a couple of weeks ago, and replaced with a much faster machine (which was another of our servers, whose position was filled by a brand new crazy-fast machine).

This is a machine I built from the ground up, in late 1999 (I think my brother-in-law Art helped some, but I can't remember for sure...).

Until yesterday, the plan was to sell it on eBay for whatever we could get. Instead, it's now in service as my brother's eBay slave. I guess eBay has some software (turbo lister) that only runs on Windows, so Jed's slummin'.

This is a sort of trade, though. He's going to list some of my remaining machines for me. I have way too many functional-but-unused computers around here that need to go.