[Leaplist] free legacy hardware, installfest

[patrick]

Mr. Brunkow wrote:
> Jason Boxman wrote:
>> If anyone wants to acquire them at installfest, I can bring an ancient
>> K6(i) 300MHz system and an old Pentium system (probably 150MHz), both
>> in solid mid tower cases.  The former is ATX, the later is actually AT
>> I believe.  Both have PSUs and still worked in December.
>>
>> I also have a small PSU sized box with some ATA ribbons cables and
>> some extra expansion cards, probably old PCI NICs and PCI/AGP video
>> cards.
>>
>> Additionally, I have a dual Celeron system I acquired from Bryan.  It
>> has leaky caps, though, as apparently all dual Celeron mainboards of
>> the era did, so I am not using it for anything.  I don't have the
>> expertise or the time to attempt to replace the caps, though
>> apparently replacement kits exist online.  The caps in question are
>> about a half dozen, all bulging or leaking, around both CPUs on the
>> mainboard.  Box is bare with both CPUs and a generic PSU.
>>
>> Obviously, none of it is worth shipping anywhere.  But I can bring
>> them to installfest on Saturday, if someone wants to profess an
>> interest.  Let me know.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
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> Is the install fest this sat. or next?  been so long since i have been
> to one.
> 
The home page for Leap-cf still is active, comes up in Google. and has
the currentinfo for the next meeting date!

If only I knew the size and voltage of the bad caps, I know Mouser has
them for $.12 to $0.51 each, (typically).  I just repaired two boards, a
P4 - 1.7 Ghz Compaq desktop system, and a Compaq 5300US tower 1.1 Ghz).

Just bought a new AMD 5600+ bare bones, with SATA 40GB drive and 1GB
DDR2, in a black tower case, from Ascendtech, for $229, with three day
delivery.

It simply screams, and the download speeds are tremendously fast!
I find that the 7 Mbs  Broadband downloads to my managerie of single
processor units with ~256 to 768 Mb SDRAM had been slowed by the bottle
neck of slower storage, less RAM, and slower CPU speed.