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John, This could be answered in a couple ways. One, I have to believe state universities will always have a perpetual 'hand out', and would gladly accept usable computing resources. Or two, I have not made a big deal out of getting into the freebie business, but we could use a few machines for students use and/or our faculty. Our needs for these machines are not that stringent, a machine as slow as a 200mhz Pentium would work. 400mhz or faster would be better (beggars can't be choosy?). Generally, we need 7 or more gigs of disk space on this type of work station machine. Linux will operate just fine on the low end platforms as the demands on these systems are minimal (browsing, editing, etc). The issue of surplus computers from federal surplus depots was explored, but in the end, all we did was waste our time trying to apply for 'bargain' surplus computers. The crates of machines never materialized. I will check with The Corporate Recycling Council to see what resources are available to us, and also contact the CCCC to see if they have any for us. Thanks, Bob John Hebert wrote: > Bob, > > You should check out www.cacrc.com and possibly ask > them for donations. The Recycling PCs with Linux > project at CCCC is still in the formative stages, so > I'm not sure where we will be getting machines from. > > I'll bet that this department could easily get > corporate donations of PCs from area businesses, if > the word got out. Have they considered advertising? > > John Hebert > > --- Robert Leche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know of at least one department at LSU that would > > stand to benefit > > from the donations of computers and computer related > > equipment. > > > > > > > > Bob > > > > > > John Hebert wrote: > > > > > Byron, > > > > > > You may be interested to know that the CCCC Linux > > SIG > > > has started a project to recycle old PCs with > > Linux > > > and other free|OSS for individuals/organizations > > with > > > a demonstrated need. > > > > > > John Hebert > > > > > > --- Byron Como <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Heh, Heh. Yesterday I pulled a fully functional > > P200 > > > > out of my neighbor's garbage. 98megs of ram, > > 3gig > > > > hd, cd (flaky or maybe just I'm flaky), creative > > > > soundblaster, a really excellent 3com 3c900 > > combo. > > > > It booted right up into Windows 2000 > > Professional. > > > > This is now my top-of-the line computer. How > > sad. I > > > > also picked up a junker off the side of the road > > > > which only yielded some spare parts. If yall see > > > > stuff like this it couldn't hurt to at least > > give it > > > > a cursory once over. As more and more computers > > are > > > > upgraded better systems than this will just be > > > > thrown away. Don't assume that if its in the > > garbage > > > > it is completely ruined. > > > > > > > > Byron > > > > > > > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Leche System Administrator Louisiana State University - Southern Regional Climate Center 260 Howe-Russell Building Baton Rouge, La. 70803 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 225 578 5023 ---------------------------------------------------------------- --------------697F00008D5F6DDC07718DD7 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <br>John, <p>This could be answered in a couple ways. One, I have to believe state universities will always have a perpetual 'hand out', and would gladly accept usable computing resources. Or two, I have not made a big deal out of getting into the freebie business, but we could use a few machines for students use and/or our faculty. Our needs for these machines are not that stringent, a machine as slow as a 200mhz Pentium would work. 400mhz or faster would be better (beggars can't be choosy?). Generally, we need 7 or more gigs of disk space on this type of work station machine. Linux will operate just fine on the low end platforms as the demands on these systems are minimal (browsing, editing, etc). <p>The issue of surplus computers from federal surplus depots was explored, but in the end, all we did was waste our time trying to apply for 'bargain' surplus computers. The crates of machines never materialized. <p>I will check with The Corporate Recycling Council to see what resources are available to us, and also contact the CCCC to see if they have any for us. <br> <br> <p>Thanks, <br>Bob <p>John Hebert wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Bob, <p>You should check out www.cacrc.com and possibly ask <br>them for donations. The Recycling PCs with Linux <br>project at CCCC is still in the formative stages, so <br>I'm not sure where we will be getting machines from. <p>I'll bet that this department could easily get <br>corporate donations of PCs from area businesses, if <br>the word got out. Have they considered advertising? <p>John Hebert <p>--- Robert Leche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <br>> I know of at least one department at LSU that would <br>> stand to benefit <br>> from the donations of computers and computer related <br>> equipment. <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Bob <br>> <br>> <br>> John Hebert wrote: <br>> <br>> > Byron, <br>> > <br>> > You may be interested to know that the CCCC Linux <br>> SIG <br>> > has started a project to recycle old PCs with <br>> Linux <br>> > and other free|OSS for individuals/organizations <br>> with <br>> > a demonstrated need. <br>> > <br>> > John Hebert <br>> > <br>> > --- Byron Como <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <br>> > > Heh, Heh. Yesterday I pulled a fully functional <br>> P200 <br>> > > out of my neighbor's garbage. 98megs of ram, <br>> 3gig <br>> > > hd, cd (flaky or maybe just I'm flaky), creative <br>> > > soundblaster, a really excellent 3com 3c900 <br>> combo. <br>> > > It booted right up into Windows 2000 <br>> Professional. <br>> > > This is now my top-of-the line computer. How <br>> sad. I <br>> > > also picked up a junker off the side of the road <br>> > > which only yielded some spare parts. If yall see <br>> > > stuff like this it couldn't hurt to at least <br>> give it <br>> > > a cursory once over. As more and more computers <br>> are <br>> > > upgraded better systems than this will just be <br>> > > thrown away. Don't assume that if its in the <br>> garbage <br>> > > it is completely ruined. <br>> > > <br>> > > Byron <br>> > > <br>> > ></blockquote> <pre>-- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Leche System Administrator Louisiana State University - Southern Regional Climate Center 260 Howe-Russell Building Baton Rouge, La. 70803 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 225 578 5023 ----------------------------------------------------------------</pre> </html> --------------697F00008D5F6DDC07718DD7--
