
I'm starting the LUV hardware library tonight. I will bring a briefcase full of computer stuff which has no monetary value to me (it's stuff that either I got for free or which I can't use or expect to sell) but which would be really useful to anyone who has systems which need such parts. It's probably too late to expect anyone to bring any hardware to donate tonight, but one thing I could use that many people have is a bunch of anti- static bags. Please bring a pocket full if you have some lying around. For donations, any hardware which could be useful for someone and which fits in your pocket will do. Some items of particular interest are: Small USB storage devices. Probably most people are like me and have no use for anything less than 1GB. But some people can really use them (like the relative who took all my 128MB USB devices for MP3s to play in their car). PCI cards. As PCIe is in all new systems there isn't a lot of use for PCI apart from all the old systems that are in production. PCI Ethernet cards are really good for making old systems into routers. IDE disks and small SATA disks. Probably most people use nothing less than 300G nowadays, but there are lots of uses for 40G disks (such as making old systems into small servers with RAID-1). Please don't bring me more than 2 disks at one time without prior arrangement, due to the mass it would be inconvenient to unexpectedly receive many disks. USB keyboards and mice. USB cables and extension cables. RAM, anything faster than PC-133 (I think I've got a lifetime supply of that) and bigger than 128MB. ECC RAM is useful, but please make sure it's labelled as such - otherwise ECC RAM can look like broken RAM... Also if you attend tonight and find that some type of small and old hardware that you need isn't in the collection then feel free to make requests. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/