On Wednesday 12 May 2004 03:58, Dennis Dryden wrote:

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 19:55, Stan Fraser wrote:

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I think they are called car boot sales now ;-)

I've never seen anything good at carboots(computer wize), i did try and sell a 486 a few years ago at one but it started raining + no one was interested :(. What do the local schools do with there old hardware i wonder?

Dennis

Keep them lying about, mainly. At a local (girls private) school nobody has the time or energy to go through the stuff. There's at least one room under whose benches are stacked Pentium 166 and similar class gear, mostly fully operational, which they'd probably use if anyone knew how to set them up, clean off the viruses etc. etc. -- GT

On Wednesday 12 May 2004 09:39, Daniel Silverstone wrote:

On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 09:37, Graham Trott wrote:

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Keep them lying about, mainly. At a local (girls private) school nobody has the time or energy to go through the stuff. There's at least one room under whose benches are stacked Pentium 166 and similar class gear, mostly fully operational, which they'd probably use if anyone knew how to set them up, clean off the viruses etc. etc.

Surely a quick install of Debian would clean off all the viruses :-)

D.

Already suggested. Too radical. All the modern gear is Windows. Only the staff would be willing to use the old kit and they'd expect to see their usual programs. Though I did find a P300 with a dual-boot and Red Hat 6.something, so someone a bit clued-up must have been through there at one point. -- GT

On Wednesday 12 May 2004 20:42, Martin Collins wrote:

If anyone wants to hang around my bin in Gorleston there will be a 486 with an old twin speed external CD Rom in it any day now!

Fed up with it lying around and it's not worth the effort selling it for the few pounds I'd get for it. I did get an idea from MicroMart and was going to turn it into an in-car mp3 player, but then couldn't be bothered when I realised the effort required!!

To be honest you would struggle to get a 486 to stream data of the harddrive and playback MP3s without skipping anyway. I had problems with a P90, latter kernels may be better though. As a company we do have some stuff to get rid of now and again, no hard drives as we generally destroy them. Most stuff we junk is either good only for spares or of condition unknown. At the moment (from memory) we have a cluster of Epson Inkjet printers of condition unknown, a couple of socket 470 and slot 1 mainboards (condition unknown) a dead Mac (old powerpc type) a working Mac SE30, an external SCSI case (SCA internal connector, Ultra2 external), the (working when last tested) guts of a 233Mhz Laptop including screen from an aborted MP3 project. Any of the above is free to anybody willing to come to Bury to collect it. If of interest I can keep the list informed of anything else that becomes available.