due to a change I am going through in life (and a turning point into being a free person) I am moving out suddenly from where I am, have a nice job lined up, except I am having to leave 3/4ths of my stuff behind. Not a light decision, but I was unable to sell some of it, I don't have time to sell it, nor do I have place to keep it.

So I had to get rid of some of my important possessions that probably comes close to $1500 altogether. These include:

PowerBook 540c

PowerMac 6500 w/ G3 upgrade

My old AMD Opteron x2 175 Server with 80GB HDD and 2.5GB. Rackmount

Rare PC and Mac cards

Farallon EN/SC Ethernet to SCSI adapter

Apple Personal LaserWriter

Nice speaker system (logitech)

Several Pentium III Laptops (All capable of Running XP, 2k, 9x, and OS/2 Warp 4 as well as NT 4.0

Several expensive cards including Hardware RAID cards

large hard drives (think 400GB+)

Lots of expensive vintage RAM (30-pin, 16-32MB 72-pin, old mac 64MB RAM from the 7xxx8xxx9xxx series). processor upgrades, wireless cards (including PCMCIA 802.11b that works with mac)

LCD Monitors which I spent some money on, KVM switches, Processors (including some that are selling for $90 on ebay at the moment)

Whole PCs (some very new)

Ethernet switches (Cisco 2900XL 24-port 10/100 w/ 1Gbit up-link module)

Lots of books (IT Mostly, some that cost me originally $100+)

as well as a lot of software.

I just watched $1500 worth of stuff walk out the door for practically pennies on the dollar (I made $17)

However! the good thing is my friend evan (a vintage mac/pc head) has agreed to take it all. While it's not going to be going to junk/random people, a friend of mine which does vintage mac (and has several PM G3's, G4's a G5 and vintage macs including old powerbooks) has graciously agreed to take it off my hands.

My room is pretty bare now with a few select things I am keeping, amongst them are:

MacBook Pro (Early 2008)

ThinkPad T400

Desktop with 60GB SSD and 2TB which I recently built

my new Dell PowerEdge 830 server with 2TB of space (3ware/LSI hardware RAID card with 128MB cache).

my friend's Game server

my trusy PowerBook Pismo (400Mhz OC'd to 500Mhz and 1GB RAM with USB 2.0 and 802.11g airport compatible cards)

a Samsung ML-2510 Laser Printer.

some networking hardware, and about 5 LCD monitors. as well as my nice non-yellowed Apple //e (enhanced)

a spare PC.

So while I got to keep things, I am moving from my already considerably small room, into an even smaller room, and I am having to move all this stuff to a new place.

I have decided to undergo a change in life that has necessitated restructuring and re-prioritizing stuff in life, letting go of all this stuff and starting a new life where I am in control (some people on IRC know about this and I can say it's now all behind me) and taking charge after letting excuses fly too long gives me a fresh breath and new direction with my life.

Soon I will have my school complete and will be a Server 2008 Enterprise Administrator and found a company that will hire me on w/ A+ and Network+ and a promise to promote me within 1.5-2 months after I get the Server 2008 Admin certification.

So this $1500 loss is going to be turned into a situation where the old stuff will be taken care of, and I will be heading off in a good new chapter in life.

Wish me luck!