-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 my room mate needs a machine here for an AX style case that he has got sitting here doing nothing.. care to call me? Technomage Hawke 623-849-9515 On Wednesday 12 May 2004 09:17 pm, Dean McCarron wrote: > Hello all - > > I've been lurking on the list archives for a while and the > installfest posts motivated me to join. > > Part of my business involves researching PC hardware, so I > either get free demo units or purchase a lot of it, never to > be used again after testing. So much that it turns into a > storage problem. About once a year I give it all away and > the installfest looks like a good forum for this. > (In case you're wondering why I don't sell it, it's because > it 1) takes WAY too much time and 2) selling "free" hardware > I get just doens't seem right to me.) > > I've got six Intel 810-based semi-small-form factor PCs > (mostly 1 GHz Celerons, I think one is a P3-800) with > hard disks and RAM, and most have CDs or CDRWs. A couple > are a bit noisy, and two are brand new. (These weren't > demos but were in-use systems at my business.) One's a donor > candidate by the sound of the power supply and missing > drive bay cover. They're all legacy reduced which means > they can't take floppies and MUST use USB peripherals -- > a USB keyboard will be needed to configure these and > none come with the PCs. > > I also have a bit more than a dozen motherboards, most > already with CPUs and some with RAM, and probably another > half-dozen uninstalled CPUs, as well as about a dozen sticks > of various flavors of DDR. They span the gamut from 1GHz > Celerons to (I think) P4 2.8 GHz, and i810 chip sets to > 845, along with a few SIS and VIA and Nvidia Nforce boards. > > About a quarter of the stuff is true "eval" product, marked > engineering sample or "secret," but it's all totally > functional (they don't send stuff that doesn't work to me.) > And it's no longer "secret" since it's stuff that's > already shipping. > > I've also got tons of AGP graphics cards -- probably upwards > of 20, along with a few PCI cards. They're mostly two generation > old products (Nvidia Geforce 2/3/4, ATI 8500, etc.) A > couple are still new in shrink-wrapped boxes. > > I want to get rid of all this -- the only catch is -- > I want to get rid of *ALL* of this, i.e. I don't want to bring > anything back with me. If one or more folks can agree to > take it/find good homes/forward to the proper donation > candidates (my preference being students), I'd love to > provide this pile of free hardware to the local linux > community. I'm also free to help with linux installs for > a while -- but I'm a slackware fan, so if you don't > configure it with a text file under vi I'll probably > be lost. > > Any takers? > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAoxB7IAMHofu6NcwRAgSVAKDEffqX5sZAej91YBGev3Ki1UVvxwCeICW5 91Hv6wqzx683p5O9H4zgF3c= =egEK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss