On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 13:23, Taylor Cody Civ SAIC/PETS wrote: > > That is a good thing. I think the custodians can find a bunch of SUN > monitors for us but we are going to need monitors for the Dell's at first. > More monitors may come later. We just discovered that the Dell GX1 > computers are PII-400, and the government is trying to get rid of all PII > machines. They won't give us all the GX1's in storage, but we are going to > get a few. The custodians and I are going to wipe the drives and add ram. > Some of the hard drives will have to be destroyed. I won't have a final > word on wether machines can be donated to private schools, until Tuesday. > If not im sure there are plenty of public schools who could use them. > Private or public the first group of machines will be ready to go next week. > > Cody
If the machines cannot be donated to private schools, that's okay. Unfortunately none of the public schools are anywhere near a point where we can deploy Linux workstations or thin clients, so I need to continue working on convincing them. In the mean time, we can test and store those machines at Mid-Pacific, marked with "public school only" stickers.
