[Nottingham] old hardware

[James Gibbon]

Martin Garton wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone have any advice on good ways getting rid of old hardware?  I 
> get bits from time to time, some of which I can give away, but some is not 
> really much use to anyone. (eg, currently I have an 8mb 486 + vga monitor 
> hanging around)  I don't want to have to just throw it in a skip if I can 
> avoid it.
> 

This was posted to S Derby LUG's mailing list about a week ago, I 
imagine Mike would be happy to take some of it off your hands if you
get in touch with him:


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Date:    Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:32:14 +0000
From:    Mike Hemstock <hemstock@tiscali.co.uk>
To:      sderby@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Sderby] St. Peter's Church


Folks,

St. Peter's Church, Derby have recently put in a request to EDS for
help in setting up a new IT suite.  They want to have a number of
PCs for use by the communitry, mainly the local children.  Dave
Bottrill, myself and a number of our work collegues have offered to
help out on this.

Our proposed solution is to deploy a number of Thin Clients
connecting to a Linux Terminal Server.  We also want to bring a
number of existing PCs onto the LAN, deploy a couple of printers
and broadband internet.  As well as providing a CD Writer and
Digital camera.

EDS can provide the PCs, firewall and networking gear.  However, as
our kit is mostly office desktops, they aren't really upto acting
as a Terminal Server. Also, we need to get the room networked and
powered on a shoe string budget.

That's where you kind soles come in!  Although we need some
powerful kit for the Terminal Server, this is only limited to
Processor, Motherboard, Memory and Hard Disk.  The rest won't
really be touched so don't need to be of such a high spec.
Therefore, I am asking for donations of the following:

* Video Card
* Case
* PSU
* 100Mbps Network card
* Floppy Drive
* Keyboard
* Mouse
* Monitor

Additionally, the room requires trunking, with power and Cat 5
running through.  Would anyone be able to provide:

* Trunking
* Real of Cat 5
* RJ45 face plates
* Plug sockets
* Power cable
* Qualified labour to fix the above (mainly the power)

All help would be greatly appreciated (especially because we want
to touch these people up for a Linux Demo Day venue :-)

Thanks again,

Mike.