Free computer hardware pieces-parts

[Ted Roche]

A friend from the North Country who installs and configures computers  
for home and small business users asked if I'd like a box of boards  
and chips he's collected as discards from various upgrades. "You  
Linux people can get a working machine with a lot less, right?" Well,  
yeah, but this is some pretty old stuff.

If anyone's interested, I can haul  along the box for you to paw  
through. I'll be at the CentraLUG meeting tonight, likely the  
MonadLUG meeting on Thursday, and the DLSLUG meeting in July. Drop me  
a line if you're interested, and I'll bring the box along. Here's  
what I saw:

All the boards are stripped of RAM:
Two PII motherboards with PII modules installed
2 Pentium motherboards, Socket 7
A half-dozen loose CPU chips, Pentium, K5, and K6
1 extra PII Celeron module
some small memory sticks (too short for the PII mobos
couple of PCI modem cards
lots of connector cables - serial/parallel/joystick mobo-to-case-slot

There's no static protection, no padding, no guarantees, but no cost,  
either.