If they are simply giving them away then I'm sure I could find a good home for them at College as part of a render farm project I would like to run with my students in Sept.
On Aug 18, 2011 7:42 PM, "Gordon Henderson" <
gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ... about a dozen small PCs running XP. They're 'shuttle' type cases (so
> mini ITX motherboard - I think they're P4's with 512MB of RAM and an 80GB
> IDE drive, but I don't have the exact spec.
>
> Just enquiring as they're about to be replaced with modern ones (running
> win-7) - these are out of a primary school FWIW and have flat-screen
> monitors. I suspect the IT company doing the replacing will want to get
> rid of them as a job lot though.
>
> And sadly, it's really really not worth the effort trying to get the
> school to recycle them into Linux boxes. They want shiny new Win, and
> they'll get it )-:
>
> Gordon
>
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