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?
>
>
>
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