[Leaplist] free legacy hardware, installfest

[Bruce Metcalf]

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'm up for the K6, and I suspect Phil would want the AT box for the P/S.


> 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.

I have a use for old NICs, assuming they can do 100M.


> 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.

I have the expertise and tools to replace caps. If you tell me the 
values, I may even have some. Bring it along. We can try for RS caps if 
you like, otherwise I can bring it home and fix it for you later.


And yes, despite some remarks overheard that I've got Patricitis, I am 
putting some of my old systems to work. One more repair and I'll start 
prepping the others for distribution--student computers for the fast, 
IPCOP boxes for the slow. If anyone has NICs to contribute to the 
latter, I'll see they find good homes.

Bruce