Here's a short list of what I got - (there's much more - come over and go "shopping" if you like) ISA cards 6 Modem 4 network - one with a coax type (thin wire?) connection thingy 4 video - 2 are Long arsed WinNov cards - maybe some sort of video accel or capture 1 is a cga board (i think) 4 sound cards 3 serial / parallel some sort of riser card (would plug into bus and hold cards perpendicular to MB) PCI cards: 2 real magic netstream 2000 (some sort of vid card) 10 video cards 5 network 1 "cordless PCI card" by symphony no antenna 1 pci card with two phone jacks on it and a 2 lead cord to plug into somewhere on a mother board (I think this is a wakeup or shutdown a computer via phone line) made by "bridgecom) 2 modems 1 parallel express. Computer/Cases tower (mid) amdk6 case/MB w/ soundblaster ISA card 200W Power supply generic white mid sized tower with "PC400 system board" some sort of Socket 423 processor includes board documentation and cdrom no PS - no idea if it works. mid sized tower Old acer aspire - 486 or better I think cdrom, floppy, some memory, PS. used it as a firewall in the old days. mid sized tower another white box P2 400Mhz (slot A?? looks like a video game cartridge), 235W PS CROMnic, Creative ISA card gateway 2000 P5-75 Full tower case, MB, CPU, PS, Floppy, CDROM - Ran IPCOP with 4 zones on this baby from many a year. mid sized tower MB, Hard drive, cdrom, PS, some memory, floppy - this is a pretty old machine as the memory sims are short in length. Shit runs, but too lazy to dig into the bios. Free books: Title, Author, ISBN, Other Info iAPX 88 Book, Intel, N/A, All about the 8088 MS-DOS User guide and Reference, Microsoft, N/A, version 4.0 and 4.01 The Waite Group's Essential Guide to Turbo C, N. Barkakati, 0-672-22675-8 Learning C++, Tom Swan, 0-672-22785-1, Includes 5 1/4 floppy Special Edition: Using CGI, J. Dwight & M Erwin, 0-7897-0740-3, CDROM MIA Special Edition: Using Java, A. Newman, et. al, 0-7897-0604-0, Includes CDROM Jamsa's 1001 C/C++ Tips, K. Jamsa, 0-9635851-2-6, 3.5 floppy MIA Java!, T. Ritchey, N/A (1995 New Riders Publishing),CDROm included C Programming, A. Hanson,0-201-19444-9, N/A Teach yourself Visual C++ 1.5 in 21 days, Namir Clement Shammas, 0-672-30489-9, (took me longer than 21 days to learn...) Heavy Metal Visual C++, S. Holzner, N/A (Lib Congress Cat Card No. 94-077910), 3.5 floppy MIA - also must listen to Korn, Pantera, Metallica (before "Black" album) or other while using this book. On 11/16/07, Bryan Zimmer <bryzimmer at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Greetings. > > I am an old computer geek (48 years old) who has been Linuxing for many = > years. I also use a more widely-used Windowing Operating system, and = > used to run internet servers in a public domain (mail server, name = > servers, apache, etc) for my own company. > > I am living on disability now because my health took a turn and I can't = > work a lot.=20 > > So I am financially strapped, but, forever a computer nerd, I take old = > hardware (or even the newer stuff) and make it go. The equipment I use = > sometimes requires fixing up a bit and always requires ingenuity to put = > the pieces together into a working system. > > I am wondering if anyone out there has any old hardware of just about = > any sort that they no longer use because it is now old-fashioned = > technology.=20 > > My latest creation involved upgrading a computer made in the year 2000, = > upgraded the memory and disk, put in a CD and DVD, video card, and now = > is it a dual boot Linux/W*ndows system that is my primary workstation. > > I don't have a working printer, but I have a fair amount of networking = > equipment including hubs, switches, miles of Ethernet cable and a = > considerable knowledge of networking in a hybrid environment. > > So if anyone has any such hardware....could be anything from an antique = > laptop to a somewhat questionable DVD drive, or even any old hardware, I = > am willing to pay a small amount, although it wouldn't be much. > > It might be better in terms of karma to have it be used than just gather = > dust in your attic. > > This might sound eccentric, but I do this stuff for both a hobby and = > occasional jobs. Old hardware, modern operating systems (Fedora 8 and = > XP), programming, networking, tweaking, configuring workstations and = > servers, data communications strategies. > > If you have anything you would like to donate or just talk about, feel = > free to contact me via this list, or personally (see below). > > Thanks. > > Bryan A Zimmer > "BazTheLinuxGuy" > > bryzimmer at gmail dot com > zimmer dot bryan at gmail dot com > > (651) 492-9388 (use judiciously, it is a cell phone) > > Thanks, > > Baz > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20071120/98edc710/attachment.htm