Re: [Sheflug] Re: Free Pc equipment

[Bob Holland <bobholland [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 12 June 2003 08:51, you wrote:
> Bob
> I've got a couple more possibilities to investigate, one of which looks
> very promising.  First choice will have to go to organisations within our
> EAZ and our partners (for funding purposes) but there may well be stuff
> left over, especially the monitors, and maybe PCs from the schools that are
> replaced with upgrades.  Is there a minimum specification you are
> interested in?

Though we have had LTSP working on 33MHz 486s, unless you have been around 
for too long in this game then fiddling about with ISA, interrupts and the 
like becomes an intellectual challenge rather than a practical proposition. 
We have decided that PCI bus, Pentium class machines with about 32M RAM give 
useful performance, with SVGA monitors / video (min 1Mb video memory) or 
better required - also much better from a sysadmin viewpoint if all the 
hardware is similar spec.

PCs need network cards (RJ45 style), preferably with boot EPROM socket.

We have quite a few machines at present with no monitors - the ones we 
aquired were not really worthwhile using. Anything up to about 4 years old 
should be useful.

Thanks
Bob
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