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This page reflects a policy and should be edited for content only with board approval (formatting and grammar fixes are okay).
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Hardware donations: | Hardware donations: | ||
| − | *PCs, servers: accepting any equipment 0-7 years old, or anything 'retro' >25 years old. | + | *PCs, servers, laptops: accepting any equipment 0-7 years old, rare equipment (RISC, sun machines etc) or anything 'retro' >25 years old. |
| − | *any routers | + | *any routers, wireless equipment: always accepted |
*switches: anything with a gigabit interface is accepted (we have too many 10/100 devices). | *switches: anything with a gigabit interface is accepted (we have too many 10/100 devices). | ||
*always accepting DDR or newer RAM, and 80-pin SCSI hard drives. | *always accepting DDR or newer RAM, and 80-pin SCSI hard drives. | ||
*monitors: always accepting LCDs. We have enough CRTs. | *monitors: always accepting LCDs. We have enough CRTs. | ||
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Server mounting: all rackable servers must be racked, buy slide rails if you need to. We already have a stack of servers and it's not fun playing Jenga to troubleshoot. | Server mounting: all rackable servers must be racked, buy slide rails if you need to. We already have a stack of servers and it's not fun playing Jenga to troubleshoot. | ||
Revision as of 03:25, 15 February 2012
This page reflects a policy and should be edited for content only with board approval (formatting and grammar fixes are okay).Hardware donations:
- PCs, servers, laptops: accepting any equipment 0-7 years old, rare equipment (RISC, sun machines etc) or anything 'retro' >25 years old.
- any routers, wireless equipment: always accepted
- switches: anything with a gigabit interface is accepted (we have too many 10/100 devices).
- always accepting DDR or newer RAM, and 80-pin SCSI hard drives.
- monitors: always accepting LCDs. We have enough CRTs.
Server mounting: all rackable servers must be racked, buy slide rails if you need to. We already have a stack of servers and it's not fun playing Jenga to troubleshoot.
