[Sderby] St. Peter's Church

[Chris]

Mike - I have some old kit knocking about:-
Serial Mouse
1mb Graphics Card (ISA I think)
A PCI card which I think is RJ45 (but might be a modem - never tried it 
- no drivers)
Any use?

Chris

Mike Hemstock wrote:

>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.
>
>
>
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