[K12OSN] Affordable Eprom source

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

Hardware don't grow on trees, Mel; unlike software, hardware costs money
to reproduce.  If you want a hardware solution, you gotta pay for it. 
Jim McQuillan's saving you a ton already!  You want him to just *donate*
the chips to you on top of that?

Eighteen dollars--that's pocket change.  Take a small piece of that
truckload of money that you're saving by not going with MS
Windows/Office and use that to fund your EEPROM purchase.  Geez...!

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Mel Wade wrote:
> That is what I'm doing right now.  We removed the eject buttons from
> the drives.  I'd like to get to a hardware only solution eventually.
>
> Mel
>
> On 1/11/07, * Petre Scheie* <petre at maltzen.net
> <mailto:petre at maltzen.net>> wrote:
>
>     You could also use the Universal Boot Floppy to boot the clients,
>     as floppy disks are
>     pretty cheap.  If you're worried about the kids taking the floppy
>     out, put the drive
>     inside the case where it's inaccessible.  Not as quick or reliable
>     as a boot prom, but
>     your priority seems to be price.
>
>     Petre
>
>     Tim Born wrote:
>     > Mel -
>     >
>     > If you need more than a few, you might invest in a chip burner,
>     snag the
>     > boot code from rom-o-matic and use the guide from etherboot
>     project:
>     > http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/burningroms
>     >
>     > If you get all that working you can source boot rom chips for
>     the rest
>     > of us.
>     >
>     > -tim
>     >
>     >
>     > Mel Wade wrote:
>     >
>     >> That's more than the cost of the rest of the client hardware
>     combined.
>     >>
>     >> On 1/11/07, *"Terrell Prudé Jr."* < microman at cmosnetworks.com
>     <mailto:microman at cmosnetworks.com>
>     >> <mailto:microman at cmosnetworks.com
>     <mailto:microman at cmosnetworks.com>>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >>     Umm...what's wrong with $18?  That ain't that much.  Hell,
>     I call
>     >>     it a bargain!  Try buying a single copy of XP or Vista for
>     >>     that...oh, and the computer to run it....
>     >>
>     >>     Oh yeah, and that $18 also helps to pay for their
>     development cost
>     >>     to make something called LTSP for you to use.
>     >>
>     >>     --TP
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>     >>
>     >>
>     >>     Mel Wade wrote:
>     >>
>     >>>     Does anyone know an affordable eprom source.
>     >>> DisklessWorkstations wants $18/each for theirs.  Their
>     >>>     justification is that they go all over the world promoting
>     LTSP
>     >>>     and the sales from their site fund that.  Personally, I'm not
>     >>>     interested in funding their world travels...
>     >>>
>     >>>     Anyway I have some 3com 3c905TX and 3c905TX-MN cards that
>     I need
>     >>>     eeprom chips for...
>     >>>
>     >>>     --     Mel Wade
>     >>>     "The real problem is not whether machines think but
>     whether men
>     >>>     do." - BF Skinner
>     >>>     http://www.melwade.com
>     >>>
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