[lug] Anyone else hate to get rid of old equipment?

[Nate Duehr]

On May 22, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Jeff Schroeder wrote:

> Kenneth:
> 
>> Amazing what you find when you hit the dusty corners of the closet.
> 
> I agree!  I was cleaning out my office closet this morning and found the 
> stack of fifteen desktop PC's I've been storing there for years.  
> They're new in box; they were literally being thrown out by a company a 
> few years back because the company never used them and was upgrading 
> everything.  So I grabbed them.
> 
> The downside?  They're all Pentium 166MHz processors with 16MB of RAM.  
> No ethernet port, no CD-ROM, no USB.  Ahh, those were the days.

If they have sound cards in them, the folks on the IRLP (www.irlp.net) mailing list (irlp at yahoogroups.com) would probably snap those up, if RAM of the variety used in them can still be found.  (16MB is too small, they use a stripped down version of CentOS with all the GUI components removed and ISA sound card support re-added via a custom kernel.)

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Nate Duehr
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