Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> Well, I was throwing some trash in the dumpster at the office, and I
> looked in and noticed a couple of PCs sitting in the bottom of the
> dumpster. I spent a long time trying to decide whether to jump in and
> take a look. (I felt like such a scuz, dumpster-diving for PCs later.)
>
> Anyway, turns out someone had thrown (emphasis on the word "thrown")
> seven PCs in the dumpster, which I retrieved. All 486's, some working,
> some not. Only two hard drives in the bunch, and a couple of NIC cards.
> Some with memory, some without. I've got 72 and 30 pin SIMMs out the
> butt, so they can be populated. Couple have VESA Local Bus video cards.
>
> Probably, most of these can be made to work, but I'm not sure what they
> would be good for. Yes, I know they're all good for firewalls, but one
> only needs so many firewalls. I'm wondering if they have enough
> horsepower for fileservers with large hard drives. Anyone have
> experience with this?
>
> Doubtless, I won't need all these, so some lucky SLUGs may be able to
> buy some for a modest sum. (I'm kidding! Any of these I get rid of will
> be given away or raffled.)
>
> Anyway, comments are welcome.
Paul,
What about bringing them, and any available parts, to the next SLUG
meeting(s) where members can help build them out and install them, and
then look around for schools, child care facilities, preschools,
whatever, who might be in the need for a simple firewall type setup for
dialup or cable modem services so their school can have internet feed?
My wife works at a very small private school where they all try to dial
out using AOL for internet access in the classrooms and it really
sucks. I've tried to convince them to get roadrunner and I can drop
something like the above in for them where they can all share the same
network, but the money's just too tight. Other small private school
type things may be able to go for it if they had a way to share the
network connection so they didn't feel like they had to buy service for
each PC.
Just an idea.
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