Just want to let everyone (especially today's cleaning crew) know I have
plan for all the computers that were brought in for give away last Saturday.
I'm going to churn out hard drives in a ready to go state this week.
Once I get a pile going, I'll put out an announcement and invite members
go ahead and combine ready to go drives and machines at their leisure.
Next Saturday (Nov 3) we'll have a final build-athon.
Saturday after that (Nov 10) I will manage a final give-away process at
the space for much of the day with a post to the Winnipeg Free Cycle
mailing list
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WpgFreecycle/
As such, it will need to be advertised as "free computer" and not "pay
what you can". I will also comply with Freecycle's rules by not posting
Skullspace's address on their list and will respond to individual
respondents off list with specific reservation commitments for that day.
Any machines with a label on them in the corner of the classroom are
ready to go and unreserved -- feel free to directly give them away to
people you know along with CRT monitors, keyboards, mice, and power
cables from the back elevator area.
I will take reservations between now and Nov 10 for anyone else -- so
more worthy causes/individuals than Winnipeg Freecycle have first dibs
on this if people get them in touch with me. Have them use the
[email protected] address to make this easier for me to manage.
I should also comment on the computers that ended up at the table of
doom. Several of them had their hard drives removed by the donor by
disconnecting the heat sinks from the CPUs instead of properly removing
the hard drive chasis from the case. (required removing front of case).
As a result, there is insufficient contact between these heat sinks and
the notorius Pentium IV CPUs -- they require a re-do of thermal
material. We dealt with some serious instability on these at the
hackathon last weekend due to this.
There were also machines that came in with their hard drive chassis
removed, and there is no way to put a new hard drive in them without
such a thing short of duck tape.
If somebody wants to put in the time to re-do the thermal material, than
these machines can be moved back to the back elevator room and I will
see to it that they're given away with the rest. Ditto for machined
junked due to hard drive chassis, if the originals show up or someone
goes out and buys/donates 5 1/4 " to 3 1/2" brackets, then I'll make
sure they find a good home. Thermal grease, brackets, and travel costs
can be re-imbursed out of the $25 we earned with the "pay what you can"
approach last Saturday. (was deposited in donation box)
Mark
And FYI, we are not accepting any more computers for give away, I'm
getting rid of what came in, not soliciting any more to come our way
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