The local school had just been given a grant to replace all of the servers in the high school computer lab and throughout the rest of the corporation. Since I was at the school board meeting on the night that this was announced, I asked them what they would be doing with the old equipment and they said they would be selling it.

I asked to be made aware of the sale date and time when it was decided upon. They agreed to call me and they would also be putting an ad in the paper too. I was thinking of opening up a computer parts store, and figured that this would be a way to get a few good pieces to start with.

The day that the advertisement for the sale went into the paper, the school called and told me the details. I had read that they would be selling used pseries servers and also iseries servers. Since those were the two that I knew a lot about, I was very excited to see what they would go for.

I ended up getting two used pseries servers and four iseries servers for about one third of their worth. I put them in my new computer parts store along with a few other items that I had picked up at flea markets and garage sales.