Free computer needs a new home

Alex Hewitt hewitt_tech at comcast.net
Tue Feb 12 09:22:22 EST 2008


On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 08:52 -0500, Ted Roche wrote:
> I recently upgraded Dad's computer and have his old one to repurpose.
> It's a seven- or eight-year-old box, so it's no screamer but if you had
> a use for an older machine (second office machine, little LAMP server,
> etc.) this could fill the bill. It was a single-owner machine, literally
> run by grandparents who turned it on a couple hours a week to check
> their AOL email over dial-up and to look at pictures of their grandkids.
> Hard disk drives have been updated, and a LinkSys Ethernet card added.
> The modem was removed to install in their new machine.

So you're saying it only has 100,000,000 cycles on the CPU. There's no
blue smoke coming out of the exhaust and it's only been used on Sunday
to view the church services? ;^)

-Alex

> 
> If you'd like it, let me know. You can pick it up in Contoocook, or I
> can drag it along to a LUG meeting.
> 
> Dell Dimension L550r
> PIII-550
> 512 Mb RAM
> Hewlett-Packard 32x CD Writer Plus 9500
> 10 Gb Western Digital WD102BA
> 30 Gb Western Digital WD300BB
> USB, serial, Parallel
> Intel 810e VGA video
> Ensoniq E1371 sound
> Dell QuietKey keyboard
> Logitech PS/2 mouse w/roller ball
> "Designed for Windows 2000 Pro/NT 4 Workstation/Windows 98"
> HDD's have been scrubbed of all traces of data.
> A clean version of Kubuntu 7.10 Desktop is installed.
> No monitor.
> 
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