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[Aaron E-J]

Hi Joseph,
If you are still looking, colleges are probably one of the best bet 
places that would be getting rid of things.  When I was a student at 
Hampshire College, there were constantly old electronics being 
recycled.  Of course, it is a bit harder if you are doing remote 
learning and there are few people actually on campus given the pandemic, 
but in terms of local resources, the IT department at colleges (Five 
Colleges and STCC) is still probably your best bet.  I am not sure your 
use case, but if it is on the software end, really you can use any 
computer or virtual machine as a server.  I develop all my web apps 
using a Vagrant <https://www.vagrantup.com/>/VirtualBox 
<https://www.virtualbox.org/>/Docker <https://www.docker.com/>/Visual 
Studio Code <https://code.visualstudio.com/> local environment before I 
release them.  It takes a day or a few days to set up everything the 
first time but once you do, it saves a lot of time when you need to work 
on something new, because you can just copy all the config files from 
your last project and start a new virtual environment in minutes. Of 
course, if your doing something with hardware, that won't work.
Hope that helps,

Aaron E-J
The Other Realm
http://otherrealm.org
http://theotherrealm.org (Blog)

On 2020-11-28 5:14 PM, Joseph Connor via Hidden-discuss wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am an undergrad college student majoring in Computer Engineering. I 
> am looking for any server options that I can use from home. I did not 
> know if anyone out there had a setup that they are currently looking 
> to donate. From what I understand, companies have to upgrade their 
> server equipment every few years, and sometimes you can get lucky.
>
> Having a server setup could help me do an add-on honor course at my 
> current college and work on projects that I want to research while 
> forced to work remotely all online.
>
> If anyone out there can help me, my contact information is 
> jmconnor at student.stcc.edu/ <http://jmconnor@student.stcc.edu/> 
> 413-512-1244. Thank you.
>
> Sincerely,
> Joseph M. Connor
>
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