Just wanted to say thank you to the LUG and to Adam Trickett for hooking me
up with an old machine and some parts. It is gonna make a nice IPCOP box
so if anyone wants directions on how to set one up please just message me.
Thanks again,
Pete
On Sun, 9 Sep 2018 22:47 Adam John Trickett via Hampshire, <
hampshire@???> wrote:
> I have two tower systems that are free to a good home.
>
> They both have an Asus K8V-X Motherboard and ADM64 (single core)
> CPU. They both have the maximum design RAM of 2GB. They both have
> AGP-8X graphics cards, onboard Gig Ethernet, parallel, serial, 2x
> PS/2, onboard sound and some USB jacks. One is in a black DNUK
> (OEM) case the other a silver/grey retail case. They each have
> SATA HDs (~200Gb), DVD-RW and either a CD-ROM or a DVD-ROM.
>
> They are both running Debian Stable at the moment, fresh clean
> install and work fine, but are not really fast enough for modern
> full-fat GUIs like KDE or GNOME, but would be fine for something
> lighter or headless where that doesn't matter.
>
> If no one wants them I'll try freecycling them or breaking them
> for salvageable parts - the rest going to the local recycling
> centre.
>
> The AGP graphics card does VGA, DVI-D (and so HDMI if you needed
> that) and s-video. They are obviously obslete, but sometimes
> people need kit like this.
>
> I also have a much older Dell Dimension XPS-200n, which has a PentiumPro
> 200MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM, but does have Plextor SCSI CD-ROM and CD-R drives.
> This is a very antique computer and probably no interest to anyone, unless
> you
> want parts from it. I think it has a NetGear 100MBit CPI Ethernet card, a
> PCI-
> SCSI controller, ISA Soundblaster card and a Matrox Millenium graphics
> card.
> It has a 3Gb IBM PATA hard drive and a 5Gb IBM SCSI hard drive.
>
> You'll need to collect from Overton Hampshire, or we could deliver
> to Basingstoke or Andover as that is where the recycling centre
> would be for them if no one wants them. All will be going to the reccling
> centre within the next few weeks - we need to clear the house before we
> move
> out of it.
>
> --
> Adam Trickett
> Overton, HANTS, UK
>
> The test of the goodness of a thing is its fitness for use. If it
> fails on this first test, no amount of ornamentation or finish will
> make it any better, it will only make it more expensive and foolish.
> -- Frank Pick, lecture to the Design and Industries Assoc, 1916
>
>
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