The City Museum project is going to be a ways in the making. Your church lab is probably on a faster timeline, I'd rather you get these 20-30 iMacs than my project.
-Scott On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Robert & Janet Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Friends: > > My church, Webster Hills United Methodist Church, > is seeking donated computers to set up a computer lab > in the church. If these units will already be going to > City Museum, fine. If they still need a home, I would be > glad to coordinate the donation. > > Best Regards, > > Robert Bennett > > > Don: > City Museum. The ultimate goal isn't actually a wall, but a dome. > We're planning on filling the dome on top of the roof (minus the first > 13') with monitors & computers. iMacs would certainly be more > convenient, since they're all in one. > > Robert: > Possibly Rebecca Shelby <[email protected]> might know of someone. I've > had a few extensive discussions with her, and she's connected to a lot > of people either wanting things or trying to get rid of them. They > (swmd) issue grants to interesting projects involving recycling, such > as http://stlouisteachersrecycle.homestead.com/ among other things. > Speaking of which, Bworks could conceivably get some grant money from > them for your computer recycling efforts. > > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Don Ellis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sounds like a fun project. Should be able to get access to net boot > capabilities through our friends at GAMUG. We should forward this > conversation over to one of them. > Which museum? I'd certainly like to get in on it a little. And I might be > able to find a few more iMacs to add to the project. > > --Don Ellis > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Scott Kokotovitch <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Another thing to consider is that the few I've tried to repurpose had > flakey cd drives. They'd usually fail during an attempted BSD install > due to read errors. > > > On the ones I've worked I was able to easily access the hard drive and > RAM. So, one way to setup a bunch of these would be to install one > and then clone the rest. > > > > If the timing were different, I might try to take them off your hands > for the museum, but we're all tied up in a million other projects, and > I don't think another project can fit in my brain at the moment. > > > I hear ya. Know of anyone else that might be interested? > > Regards, > - Robert > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
