ANST - Stargate area WWW access
j'lynn yeates
jyeates at bga.com
Sun Jun 28 11:48:23 PDT 1998
On 28 Jun 98, at 12:27, Pat St. Jean wrote:
> I've got something to add here as well... I've recently finished
> upgrading my Windows machine and have a LOT of spare parts laying
> around. They're decidedly old and relatively underpowered for today's
> power users, but would suffice for someone who's just wanting to do a
> little web surfing. Here's the list:
>
> 1 AMD 486-100 w/ 20 meg ram
> 1 VLB video card
> 1 VLB I/O controller
> 1 desktop case
> 1 USR 28.8 modem (missing power adaptor)
> 1 panasonic kxp-1128 dot matrix printer.
>
> And if you give me a little time I'll probably be able to scrounge up a
> small hard drive as well.
>
> Anyone else want to chip in some older spare parts that you've got lying
> around? For e-mail and simple web access you don't need a P-II class
> machine.
thanks for bringing up that subject ... meant to do so a coupel weeks back
but got busy. many folks have piles of older, though still servicable stuff
sitting around (looking at three AT cases, two 486 motherboards, random
adapters, slower modems, a box of memory that is useless to me (though
there was a art project they may be used for ...) ... all older class stuff that
has come out of my machines at home ... ) but would assemble into a
accepteble entry / temporary .
every few months, i manage to throw together a 75-80% complete basic
machine and donate it to a worthy friend / companion ... the only geas i lay
on the recepient, that they pass along the gear to someone else when they
get a better machine (most do in time). downside, you end up being that
persons designated technical resources (g)
get a number of people together and pool the excess parts, who knows
how many machines you could build
'wolf
.. the street finds uses for things
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