Hello all -

I've been lurking on the list archives for a while and the 
installfest posts motivated me to join.

Part of my business involves researching PC hardware, so I
either get free demo units or purchase a lot of it, never to
be used again after testing. So much that it turns into a 
storage problem. About once a year I give it all away and 
the installfest looks like a good forum for this.
(In case you're wondering why I don't sell it, it's because
it 1) takes WAY too much time and 2) selling "free" hardware
I get just doens't seem right to me.)

I've got six Intel 810-based semi-small-form factor PCs 
(mostly 1 GHz Celerons, I think one is a P3-800) with
hard disks and RAM, and most have CDs or CDRWs. A couple
are a bit noisy, and two are brand new. (These weren't 
demos but were in-use systems at my business.) One's a donor
candidate by the sound of the power supply and missing
drive bay cover. They're all legacy reduced which means
they can't take floppies and MUST use USB peripherals --
a USB keyboard will be needed to configure these and
none come with the PCs. 

I also have a bit more than a dozen motherboards, most 
already with CPUs and some with RAM, and probably another 
half-dozen uninstalled CPUs, as well as about a dozen sticks 
of various flavors of DDR. They span the gamut from 1GHz 
Celerons to (I think) P4 2.8 GHz, and i810 chip sets to
845, along with a few SIS and VIA and Nvidia Nforce boards.

About a quarter of the stuff is true "eval" product, marked
engineering sample or "secret," but it's all totally
functional (they don't send stuff that doesn't work to me.)
And it's no longer "secret" since it's stuff that's 
already shipping.

I've also got tons of AGP graphics cards -- probably upwards
of 20, along with a few PCI cards. They're mostly two generation
old products (Nvidia Geforce 2/3/4, ATI 8500, etc.) A
couple are still new in shrink-wrapped boxes.

I want to get rid of all this -- the only catch is --
I want to get rid of *ALL* of this, i.e. I don't want to bring
anything back with me. If one or more folks can agree to
take it/find good homes/forward to the proper donation
candidates (my preference being students), I'd love to 
provide this pile of free hardware to the local linux 
community. I'm also free to help with linux installs for 
a while -- but I'm a slackware fan, so if you don't 
configure it with a text file under vi I'll probably 
be lost.

Any takers?



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