[PLUG] Would possibly like to donate hardware: laptops, old monitor, etc

[root@physiometrics.net]

Hello,

My name is Brian Rea, I oversee the IT department for PhysioMetrics, a
medical services company located in Mount Laurel, NJ.  We've experienced a
great deal of ramp-up in recent years with both our operations and our
infrastructure.  This has left us with some hardware which isn't used
anymore.

Some people would probably just like to give the parts and systems to family
members or friends of the company, others (like my predecessor) would be
content to let it sit under our IT department's workbench until it's so
obsolete that we claim it as some sort of business loss, but I see the
situation differently for a couple of reasons:  [A] the hardware isn't all
that new and wouldn't make all that great a "gift" (i know that i would be
pretty upset if someone gave me a 14" monitor with a blurry screen for my
birthday) and [B] i'd much rather see SOMEONE get use out of old parts
rather than them become totally ancient and never touched again.  It is for
this reason that I'd like to speak with whomever in the Philly Linux Users
Group could handle accepting this hardware as a donation to use however you
see fit.

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PhysioMetrics has the following to potentially offer:

* One AMS Tech P-233 laptop
   Needs power adapter.  any universal power adapter works well
   Needs hard disk drive.  it's hard drive failed and was never replaced.
   Has combo drive... floppy is 100%, CD-ROM is a little flaky.
   Screen, keyboard, touchpad, all external ports are fine, afaik

* One CTX EzBook P-200 laptop
   Needs power adapter.  any universal power adapter works well (the same
one that worked with the AMS Tech above works with this model, as well...
they're both 20V 2.2A)
   Needs hard disk drive.
   Has two bays for drives.  Neither have drives installed.  This and one
other CTX EzBook had one dead drive each, so we made one working laptop with
the good floppy and good CD-ROM.  this laptop was left with neither.  i've
seen cheap replacements on the Internet before, tho, i think.
   Screen, keyboard, touchpad, all external ports are fine, afaik

* One Princeton Graphics 14" SVGA monitor
   Screen is pretty blurry and crappy, frankly.  :-(  But it functions
totally as a monitor... it's readable... just produces a lot of color
distortion horizontally.  Could work fine as either a server monitor or (if
someone was so inclined) a learning tool for monitor repair, i guess.

* An assload of ThinNet BNC network cables, various lengths... most looks
like 15' segments or longer.

* An external Seagate tape drive.  Looks to be SCSI-1
   Model Number STD64000N
   Last i heard it was working fine

* Three or Four PCI modems
   These came from eMachine PCs... so the chance is high that they're
WinModems.  :-(
   Some made by PCTel, others have chips that say Conextant.
   No driver disks that i could find in my predecessor's office

* One or two internal IDE DVD-ROM drives
   These throw a lo of bad data out sometimes and aren't really reliable as
standalone CD-ROMs (say, for installing software or what not) but i just
can't pass up the chance to help Linux users get DeCSS working in any
capacity.  =)

*  A Western Digital Caviar 28400 8.4 GB IDE hard drive
   This bloody thing is detected as a 1 Gig drive by every BIOS in our
office... if you can make it detect at it's proper size you deserve to own
it.  :-)  even if it doesn't detect for you, it's still a very functional
drive at 1 GB.

* a PCMCIA SCSI interface by NewMedia corporation
   called a "Bus Toaster" model number NMC00505
   my predecessor claimed that it never really worked for him... but, then
again, he was a bit of a dumbass.  i have no need for it and haven't even
taken it out of the box.  i have all original disks and cables... but box
only lists support for dos and windows  :-(

* Hewlett-Packard external SCSI CD-R drive
   Model number: 6020e ?  Part Number: 7000-0036 ? (sticker on unit is
unclear)
   Nice external drive... has power adapter
   External SCSI ID toggle... can be ANY device # 0 thru 7
   External terminator power switch and two SCSI ports to be either middle
or last device on chain

* Something that appears to be a PCMCIA bus for desktop PCs
   ISA card with two 50-pin ribbon cables going to a 3.5" drive that appears
to take PCMCIA cards
   Drive has two card bays
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That's about all i can find so far.  If i come across anything more i'll be
glad to let you know about that, too.  If any of this is useful to the
Philly Linux Users Group, please have someone contact me at this email
address.  The only reason i could see for this donation to not happen would
be if my company's Finance dept. doesn't go for it.  Are donations Linux
Users' Groups tax-deductible?  If they are, then i am almost certain that
there would be no objection from the company brass.  I look forward to your
reply.

Eager to help the newbies learn and to see veterans saving money,

Brian Rea
Senior Network Engineer &
Director of Technology
PhysioMetrics




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