heap. I'll round everything up and get it in to one room and you can
come take a look and I'll be able to better post a list of what I
have. But again, be aware that we're probably talking a month down
the road at the very least. I have that much crap spread out through
the house (its a six-bedroom two-story farm house, plus a barn twice
the size of the house, and I live alone) :-(
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Steven Black<blacks@indiana.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 12:08:40AM -0400, David M. Moore wrote:
>> I'm trying to do some house cleaning over the next few weeks. Among
>> other things, I've got anywhere from 8 to a dozen or so older PCs.
>> We're talking PIIs and PIIIs here, and possibly a couple of Pentiums,
>> 486s, and I think there's even a 286 or 386 machine in the pile. I
>> also have some loose motherboards of the same sort of vintage. None
>> will have memory or hard drives. The PC carcasses *I think* all have
>> CD drives, as well as processors. I also have a few CRT monitors.
>>
>> This stuff is spread throughout my house (its a big house) and is
>> nowhere near ready for anyone to pick them up. That would be at least
>> two or three weeks down the road. But I want to know if anyone here
>> is even interested in having this kind of stuff (free of course). I
>> live just off SR46 in Bartholomew County (Columbus) just a few miles
>> past the Bartholomew/Brown county line.
>>
>> Otherwise if no one is interested, conveniently one of my clients is a
>> large scrap metal processor and I'm just going to start carrying stuff
>> over there every time I pass it.
>
> Interestingly, I think almost all the computers I own are also from this
> age range. I think my wife would kill me if I accepted all eight, but
> I'd be very interested in some of them. I was thinking if someone else
> is interested we could split it up so each person has the opportunity
> to take similarly aged components. However if I'm the only one foolish
> enough to be interested, I'd be happy to take the cream of your crop
> off your hands (which, interestingly enough, would include some of the
> free-floating parts. I may be able to upgrade some of my boxes...).
>
> I also wanted to remind people that FreeDOS 1.0 has been out for some
> time. A 286 -- even without a hard drive -- makes a pretty nice dumb
> terminal. With a network card and a hard drive or a carefully crafted
> boot floppy, you're looking at basically a dumb terminal that uses SSH
> instead of a serial line. (Assuming you just want to use it as a gateway
> to a real machine.) Also a reminder: Dumb terminals are great for kids!
>
> Cheers,
>
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