Padded Envolope from South Africa - Stamp Collection - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: sonnytiger
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2014, 01:02:21 am
content: Ridiculous haha, thank you very much SeanB for sending me a SCSI cable!It's 28.80R (south African currency) worth of stamps, about 3 dollars Canadian, or according to Mr. SeanB himself: The price of lunch.

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2014, 03:30:11 am
content: Aha! You've given away your address------now we can all come to Canada & harass you!!

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2014, 04:36:19 am
content: Stamps were the post office. The cable itself was from a old Phillips rack mount server ( who knew Phillips was into servers at one time) that was taken out as too slow. Two Pentium 133 processors on a dual processor card ( I still have the card) and a shed load of DIMM modules on the main board. I did plug in a monitor and turn it on before taking it apart, and it booted to Redhat 6 server. This was the one SCSI cable connecting the SCSI CDROM drive to the board. The other side had a daisy chain of 2 1G IBM Deathstars , a full height 2G Seagate drive and a DAT drive. Power supply had bad caps ( after a decade or more of on 24/7) so I did not feel too bad about scrapping it. Was a pretty heavy unit as well.

author: sonnytiger
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2014, 11:52:14 am
content: That sounds pretty cool!If you didn't live in South Africa I would want to buy it from youOH NOOOOO!DON'T HARASS MEEEEEE

author: KJDS
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2014, 12:00:20 pm
content: Quote from: vk6zgo on February 07, 2014, 03:30:11 amI've driven within a couple of miles of there a few times.

author: sonnytiger
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2014, 02:49:03 pm
content: Canada or Sackville haha, if Sackville that's surprising, even all of Nova Scotia is pretty isolated.

author: KJDS
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2014, 02:54:58 pm
content: I'd fly into Halifax and drive up to Monkton, work for a week or two and then head back.

author: sonnytiger
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2014, 03:16:36 pm
content: Ahhh OK, the airport is about 20 minutes from my house. That's cool. Thanks for the little story!

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2014, 06:22:11 pm
content: Quote from: sonnytiger on February 07, 2014, 11:52:14 amI would slap it in a bigger padded bag and give it to you, but the postage would buy lunch with drinks for a party of 4 at the best hotel in your town. That is just the postage.

author: sonnytiger
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2014, 08:41:58 pm
content: Haha no doubt, it would not surprise me.I wanted to return something I bought from a Chinamen once, postage would have been thirty dollars (it only cost about twenty).Only the size of a few decks of cards and about the same weight.

author: steve30
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 08, 2014, 11:14:42 am
content: Cool. I've never had an envelope with so many stamps on. I have thought about doing that, but haven't got round to it.

author: codeboy2k
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 09, 2014, 03:20:50 am
content: I used to live in Toronto, Ontario... back then I always wanted to have a summer house in Nova Scotia, somewhere..alas, I never got around to it. All of Nova Scotia is such a nice place, really, but I've never been to Sackville. I have however been to both Halifax and Moncton, for business.Now I am in Vancouver and it's just to far to have a summer house there nowBut I know where you live.. I'll harass you with postcards nowlol

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 09, 2014, 10:44:26 am
content: Cool.I received a package from Thailand. I left the envelope on my bedside, turned off the light and noticed the stamp glowed in the dark!

author: sonnytiger
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 09, 2014, 07:31:43 pm
content: It is my favorite place (of course I have never lived anywhere else). Sackville is pretty boring, it's pretty much a major road with like thirty car places on it and then a giant subdivision. Look at Lower Sackville on google maps and you will see what I mean.A glowing stamp?! That's awesome.