[Lancaster] any old boxes going spare?

[Ken Hough]

max* wrote:

>hi all
>
>we've got a new person starting at www.seedsforchange.org.uk (non-profit co-op 
>providing free training to community campaigners) and we're needing a 
>terminal for him.
>
>Does anyone have a functioning box that we could have? It'll mostly be 
>X-terminalling with X -query so we don't need nowt fancy - it just needs to 
>be able to deal with the huge demands of OpenOffice. (so anything above 
>333Mhz, providing it has enough RAM and a decent graphics card with 2mb ram)
>
>Thankyou :-)
>
>max
>
>  
>
Max,

I will have a box going spare soon. I'm expecting delivery of a new one 
in a week or so (with a Core 2 Quad processor!), so I will be shuffling 
things around a bit.

Would a 500MHz AMD K6II with 384MB of RAM do? The graphics card is by 
NVidia and has 4 x 512 = 2MB of RAM.  There is a PCI sound card, but 
unless that is needed, I would like to keep it. Likewise with a  PCI USB 
card.

The PCI network card is an old 10 Mb/s item, so you would probably need 
to find a faster one.

Up until now I've used this as a test box, so it's fitted with a hard 
drive caddy. I would replace this with an on board hard drive. How big a 
hard drive do you need?

Presently, a CD/DVD combo drive is fitted, but I would prefer to swap 
this for a simple CD drive.

Regards

Ken Hough