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** Lubuntu 12.04 hard drive image with 30+ tested games and hours of creative commons licensed music | ** 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) | ** Two USB hard drive cradles (for drive imaging) | ||
Revision as of 18:43, 12 October 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
- 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
- PC parts collection in workshop
- Power supplies
- DDR RAM
- Video cards
- CD drives
- Motherboards
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
