[ale] Donated computers

[W. Keith Miller]

Alex LeDonne wrote:
> On 11/16/06, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
>   
>> My kids' daycare was donated about 8+ computers.  Apparently my wife
>> volunteered me to take a look.  Today I looked.  It appears all of these
>> machines are Dell Dimension XPS D333 computers.  The have all the normal
>> features but are PII-333 adn 128m of memory.  Where it counts they seem
>> to be lacking.  IMO these computers would make nice boat anchors since
>> they are heavy and can grab mud easily.
>>
>> My thought is that these computers feel like circa 1998 machines.  I
>> could treat them as such.  They could load Win98 on them and then find
>> educational software from around that time that is compatible and run
>> that.  As long as the machine is good they will be in good shape.
>>
>> I wanted to try the educational version of Ubuntu but that would just
>> require too much memory and CPU.  Even trying to find and get memory for
>> these systems would be a pain.
>>
>> I wish that when people would donate computers they would at least try
>> to donate something they would find worthy for them self.  Don't donate
>> the stuff you consider trash.  I know there is a parable that talks
>> about this.....
>>
>>     
>
> Those sound like excellent LTSP terminals. See
> http://k12ltsp.org/contents.html for the LTSP subproject specifically
> for K-12 schools and the like.
>
> -A
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If that is the way you want to go, I'd be willing to donate my alpha
system to the school.
It's a 164LX (533MHz) with 512MB RAM, a NCR SCSI card, Digital 100MB Nic
and (5) 4+GB SCSI drives. (The case is actually an old old Compaq
Proliant 1000 server that I modified).  Currently it's running Debian
Testing.  Just a thought as I'm going to get rid of it anyway (too big
for my little area)

K