Hey John - I have a P133 cpu/board in a case, doing not-very-much. It needs ram and HDD and monitor - are you interested?
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 18:33, johnrose-simpson wrote: > First let me introduce myself. I am retired but for the last 25-30 > years I worked as a computer programmer, initially using FORTRAN then > Pascal and later a special applications language. However I still > regard myself very much as a computer peasant and would like to meet up > with a few of you gurus. My home computers started with a TRS80 and > after a few upgrades I now have a PC with an AMD K6-2 with 64 Mb ram and > a 20 Gb hard drive, running that unmentionable operating system version > 98. I feel that I have contributed more than enough to Bill Gates' > retirement fund so I am interested in changing to some version of linux. > My main computer usage is word-processing, a few spreadsheets and > internet access. To avoid being off the air for a few days while I > grapple with a new OS (or perhaps many weeks, I am a slow learner), it > seems to me that I would best buy a second-hand machine, preferably > already loaded, so that I can play until I feel proficient enough to > convert totally. I believe some of you have suitable boxes for sale. I > live on the Beckenham/Sydenham boundary and would like to come to your > meeting in the Sydenham Hall (the one in Hutcheson Street?) on the > coming Wednesday. Would I be welcome and do my ideas make sense? > > John Simpson
