I'll jump in on this thread too, not to steal Bryan's thunder or anything. I am *always* looking for parts in whatever condition; I build Frankenputers and sell or barter them (mostly here in south Mpls) to lower-income folks, usually with Ubuntu on them just because I like to keep them all on a mostly unified platform, but sometimes I go with DSL or straight Debian depending on the condition of the hardware. If you've seen the Guerrilla Tech Support fliers at the bus shelter or the coffee shop, I am he. What I need now: RAM, always, from 64Mb on up. I am always short of memory. Speakers Any video cards I can lay my hands on regardless of how old they are, to take some of the load of these old CPUs MORE RAM And anything else you got. Also and especially, I am always looking for technical assistance. I consider myself an "advanced user," and do this because I think it's a good thing to do and nobody's doing it. Frankly, I'm better with the people than I am with the machines. I'm learning a lot as I go here. (For instance, right now I am trying to come up with an elegant solution for making 10 identical Ubuntu installs for 10 identical Dell business desktops. I don't have a clue, but I'll figure it out eventually, I'm sure.) I never know how to close a letter, Pete On 11/20/07, Josh Trutwin <josh at trutwins.homeip.net> wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:32:54 -0600 > "Bryan Zimmer" <bryzimmer at gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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. > > <snip> > > Bryan - I have the following: > > (I'm CC'in the whole list in case anyone else is interested if > you're not - I'll give you first dibs) > > 3 PII (MAYBE P1 but I'm almost positive they are PII) Compaq (I think) > computers - should be fully functional. My wife used them last year > in a little computer lab she made at her school, but has since > switched jobs and has no need for em. I also have a couple other > PI/PII CPU's gathering dust. > > 4 working CRT monitors (all 17 inch I believe) - needs some Endust. > > An old Lexmark printer that my parent's upgraded - should still work > though my son may have pulled apart the paper tray. :) > > An old Visioneer Scanner - should still work but may need a little > TLC. > > 3 keyboards > > Various other odds and ends - old Cisco 978 router - KVM switch I > never found a use for. I think I even have a 512M stick of some kind > of memory. > > I'm looking to get rid of this stuff though, no charge (unless I have > to drive a long way, then maybe a couple bucks for gas?) I'd love it > if you (or anyone???) could take the whole lot since I live up by St. > Cloud (work in Delano). > > Josh > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20071121/4f7bd8c1/attachment.htm