[K12OSN] advice on surplus hardware

John Baillie jbaillie at stmarys-school.org
Fri Jul 29 01:25:51 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 17:18 -0600, Ben Nickell wrote:
> I have the opportunity to salvage some old hardware.  I would appreciate
> advice on whether any of this is worthwhile for use in  thin clients.  
> I'm only interested in it if it is easy or will work out of the box or
> could replace a less capable part in another system (network or video
> card).  
> 
> Here are the specs. 
> 
> AT power supply
> P1 200 MMX processors
> 96mb of RAM in (6) 72pin SIMMS
> 3com 905-TX rev B 10/100 network cards with bootrom slot 
> (Don't think it will  PXE boot though, doesn't it have to be Rev C to
> PXE boot?)
> ATI 3d Rage II+ DVD video cards, video ram unknown.
> 
> Does anyone have experience with this hardware?
> 
Hello Ben,

We started out with the same specs on our first 20 terminals. We used
the rom-o-matic boot floppies. The existing video cards were 2MB. We
added 8mb pci video cards to them and it made a huge difference.  I just
did a quick google and I see they are still selling for about 24.00.
Look for Jaton Trident 9880 8MB PCI.

John




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