[plug] Sunday 7 Dec: Computer Angels Car Park Sale

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Fri Dec 5 20:53:44 WST 2003


Thanks!

I will be there.

I do also have some smallish HD's that will be handy for using some of
those machines to make firewalls. My current Powermac seems to have bad
RAM and brings on kernel panics ):

regards,

Chris

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 20:46, Harry McNally wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 20:18:57 +0800 Chris Caston <caston at arach.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > Are you likely to have any cheap pci video cards?
> 
> Hi Chris
> 
> Well, the $10 desktop machines have a case, m/b, cpu, 32MB memory (mostly),
> power supply, floppy drive (almostly) and floppy cable and we throw in a
> _free_ pci video card ;-P
> 
> I think the RecycleIT people have video cards starting at $22. I'll let
> you do the maths :-)
> 
> Our experience is that many of the video cards are S3. If that suits your
> multi-monitor project you're set to go. We didn't note the type of video
> on the label on the outside and I'll be slapping wrists if people try to
> dismantle machines. Peek through the holes but otherwise WYSIWYG. 
> 
> All the best
> Harry
> 
> > On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 20:18, Jacqueline McNally wrote:
> > > If you don't already know, Computer Angels will be updating their:
> > > http://www.computerangels.org.au/carpark.shtml page right up until the 
> > > Car Park Sale day.




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