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On Friday 21 November 2008 08:56, Neil Williams wrote: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:40:01 +0000 > > Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have a couple of old working motherboards (Duron 800 +256M not sure > > about the other cpu but 128M) I have a case with a non functioning > > power supply. I hate to chuck the motherboards and thought that maybe > > other LUGers might have 'matching eqpt. > > My problem is that I have all the same equipment and the same broken > equipment - it seems to be the power supplies that are the limiting > factor. Finding AT power supplies is hard. > > There might be complete computers standing around in various companies > etc. > > > Does anyone fancy a resurrection day where we try and put odd bits of > > hardware together to make working machines? > > All I need is a power supply to resurrect my Pentium 1 90MHz. http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/569891/art/advance/atx-5000-pc-power-supply.html £12 dont seem too bad... > > > These boards would make usable PC's, fantastic thin++ clients for > > Linux but only bulimic clients for windows.... > > Do you have somewhere to put these, or some idea of where these > machines might end up? I was thinking these are to be treated as dead machines... Some of us meet up somewhere - I've got a bit of room. We build as many working machines as possible. We take the scrap stuff to the tip. What happens to the working machines? Freecycle them? I hate throwing away stuff that works. However http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/20/citigroup-wonders-gear may mean that this stuff is not worth fixin. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html