Sgt Joe,

I recently purchased a new Dell system which allowed me to "retire" 5 of my older systems. I have contacted several 3rd party resellers and they tell me there isn't any demand for these systems anymore. I was going to contact a recycler but if you are interested in having them I would be willing to send one or more to you essentially for the cost of packaging materials and shipping costs (estimating $100 USD each). These are dual socket IBM 2U servers with Intel processors. Brief specs below:

IBM 7947-AC1 (2) INTEL X5570 2.93GHZ 16GB (2) 73GB (2) 675W
IBM 7947-AC1 (2) INTEL X5570 2.93GHZ 20GB (2) 146GB (2) 675W
IBM 7947-AC1 (2) INTEL X5550 2.67GHZ 4GB (2) 146GB (2) 675W
IBM 7947-AC1 (2) INTEL E5530 2.4GHZ 8GB (2) 73GB (2) 675W
IBM 7947-72U (2) INTEL X5550 2.67GHZ 20GB (1) 73GB (2) 675W

Hello Joe, hello chaps.

Not sure should I perform apology about leaving your most joyful group without explanation, or that I have return to spam.
Sure, same chap behind nick reflecting latest Northern.
Still do some crunching with my original name (Ranarama), but really I cannot be anymore part of any team or some. Some steppenwolf now a days.

My migration to USA has reach to level where currently looting mundibonds. Virginia concurred, now my interesting about MN. This northern State is not to top item what becomes credit rating, but there is best distortion from price to yield, that I have been able to found. Reflecting my horizon with tool NYSE:NMS
Closed end fund, bonds are sold 12% under NAV.
Generally MN cretit rating is AA+ (equal with Finland witch pays -0,15% versus MN >4%).

As far as I have understand, State cannot perform default in USA. So N.Y City or Washington District of Columbia can put belly up. But state of NY or State of Washington cannot.
So state will become another line on federal budget on worst case scenario anyhow, as did become Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae.

https://youtu.be/kM2mZ6LuT6A

I started back to school again last week. I took a couple of math classes last year, 1 each semester which were geared toward the teaching of math in the elementary and middle schools. This year I am taking a course called statistics for the social sciences. My wife figures it keeps me from being underfoot too much, although I would have suspected that after more than 7 years of my being retired she would be used to me being around. She says I need to keep my mind from being clogged with cobwebs. Time will tell if I am any good at this.
Now that the public schools have started, I will be back to volunteering and substitute teaching in middle school. Something else to do to keep me out of trouble. Besides which there are a lot of kids who need the help in the math classes.
I went to the Minnesota State Fair last week. There was the usual crowd of people and I ate al the things I usually do every year - cheese curds, malt, Sweet Martha's cookies and all the milk you can drink for $2.00. Looked at the heaviest boar again, this year he weighed in 1160 lbs.(about 526 kg.)The most fun is watching all the other people in the crowds. And the weather was perfect 55F(12C) in the morning and 72F(22C) in the afternoon and sunny.
Edited: corrected misspellings and missing words
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Good luck. Let us know how it works when you are finished.
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I have one system still running Win 7. I have not had any problems so far with the system locking up on any updates so far. May be you could do that last batch of updates one at a time, to see which one is causing the problem.
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