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** box of assorted motherboards, graphics cards, RAM, cables, etc (all pretty old, no cases) | ** box of assorted motherboards, graphics cards, RAM, cables, etc (all pretty old, no cases) | ||
** ~10 CRTs (will only bring down if requested) | ** ~10 CRTs (will only bring down if requested) | ||
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** 14 DDR based machines in various state of good and bad repair, including 4 shuttles | ** 14 DDR based machines in various state of good and bad repair, including 4 shuttles | ||
Revision as of 01:46, 12 September 2012
The October 20, 2012 hackathon will feature a charity computer build-athon in the classroom.
Members are encouraged to bring parts to be assembled into fully working machines to be given away or for donations. (just desktop/towers,recipients can get their own keyboard, mouse, and monitor)
Parts anticipated
To help us organize, tell us what you can bring:
- Mark Jenkins
- ~20 SDRAM sticks varying in size from 64M to 256M
- 5 60G, PATA hard drives
- Lubuntu 12.04 hard drive image with 30+ tested games and hours of creative commons licensed music
- Two USB hard drive cradles (for drive imaging)
- Ben Bergman
- ~20 PS/2 keyboards
- box of assorted motherboards, graphics cards, RAM, cables, etc (all pretty old, no cases)
- ~10 CRTs (will only bring down if requested)
- Back elavator pile
- 14 DDR based machines in various state of good and bad repair, including 4 shuttles
Worse case machine
We'd like machines to be at least this good:
- Fast enough for software H263 software decoding (e.g. youtube), Intel Pentium IV (or equivilent architechure celeron) or AMD Duron, Athlon, or better
- 512M of DDR SDRAM
- 20G hard drive
