Computer lab loot [Archive]

Lincoln

25 Aug 2003, 4:12pm

I helped dismantle an old lab on campus yesterday. The orders were to put them in the scrap room to be picked up by our repo company. I asked to be allowed to scrounge from the lab, and got the thumbs up. I'm not sure to what degree these parts will be useful for the SMx project, but I will list them and if they are I can possibly get more.

9 HDs that are 1-2 GB
4 floppy drives
3 NICs (questionable)

I also got 4 complete Kingdom systems built in 1998. I did this under the assumption they would be ATX and all we'd have to do is swap out the mobo/memory/CPUs. I'm still unsure about this. Do you think we could likely do this?

I also have 7 sticks of RAM. This is what's on the sticker:
8x64
PC 100-322-620

I'm under the impression they are half-gig sticks, but might be too slow to be any good to us anyway. I could even be wrong about the half-gig part, but I know they are at least 128. 8x64=512, so... yeah. Excuse my lack of knowledgablity on this, I don't claim to be a hardware guru in any respect ;)

Let me know what to keep, what to pitch, and/or what to get more of.

Kwitko

25 Aug 2003, 4:39pm

The HDs will be useful. I think that RAM is 64MB PC100. The 8x64 is 8 chips of 64Mbits. Or something like that.

mmonnin

25 Aug 2003, 5:13pm

HDDs, NICs (if good), and anything else you can pick up. As long as they are ATX then pick them up if you want.

I got an email to saying they are selling some old computer parts at school tomorrow I will have to check it out. Mwuahahahaha. I love it.

WuGgaRoO

25 Aug 2003, 5:21pm

the harddrives will have to use windows 98...if im not mistaken

Enverex

26 Aug 2003, 8:38am

Would be even better to install something like a no crap Slackware install or something like Gentoo on those drives, save having to touch Windows and you will have plenty of room to spare.

NS

Shorty

26 Aug 2003, 9:41am

NightShade737 said
Would be even better to install something like a no crap Slackware install or something like Gentoo on those drives, save having to touch Windows and you will have plenty of room to spare.

NS

That's a good idea with such small drives. A no-frills Linux install would do the job and make the drives very usable :)

mmonnin

26 Aug 2003, 1:11pm

You can fit 2k on less than a gig. Not sure if you can fit all the patches on it tho including SP4 and such. I have it on a 1.2GB HDD.

Kwitko

26 Aug 2003, 2:13pm

IC4 is running Win2K and with a 384MB swapfile I'm at exactly 1GB.