Charity buildathon

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
  • 10 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)

Worse case machine

The above drive image can run on some pretty bad hardware:

• Pentium II (i686 compatible), 233MHZ
• 256M of SDRAM with 66MHz bus (more likely to be 100MHz bus)
• 20G hard drive
• PCI network card
• ISA or PCI sound card
• PCI or AGP 1x/2x video

Please bring hardware at least as good as this, note that 586 and earlier processors, including Pentium I, AMD K6, AMD Geode, and Via C3 are not 686 compatible. (Requirement for Lbuntu 12.04)