I have an old AT case, a chassis, and some P/S1 keyboards other components
I'd be happy to give you if you can pick them up, but I live in Deer Valley.
Alternatively, I'm sure you can find something at the local "Savers" thrift
store. I find they're a good source for cheap, outdated hardware when you
need some (They had a complete G3 for $10 at one place!).
As for whether the effort is worth it, I have an old Compaq Presario with a
K6-2 400, 96M of ram, and a 3G hard drive that won't even run Win'98 because
the Compaq specific drivers are extinct, but it works surprisingly well
loaded with Debian core, Xfce4 wm, abiword, xmms, and a few other apps. It
ran pretty good with simply Mepis and Mepis lite also. Sometimes, it's fun
just to see how well you can make one of these old boxes run!
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 20:22, Bupkus wrote:
> I have this old pc a neighbor found in his garage and I'm wondering if
> it's worth the effort.
>
> Inside it has:
> small motherboard labeled as a Gainwood 5VPA REV 1.1
> with two chips labeled as VIA, VT82C598MVP and VT82C586B.
> The bios displays "AGP-PCI BIOS for VIA-MVP3 5VPA-V1.4" at post.
> The CPU lists as AMD K6-2/350 again in the bios.
> 32MB PC100
>
> The case is in terrible shape but it does boot and it has Windows 98
> installed on its 4.3MB Samsung hdd.
> The PSU says 250W and seems to be ok. If I can get a decent case maybe
> I can get a little more ram and build it up for someone local, like a
> neighborhood kid.
>
> Thanks.
>
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