Zammy's farm?
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Zammy-Sam
Desertchild
Hehe..
why did you remind me to this?
I actually never planed to get a cluster out of those computers but tried to fix and sell them. Once I started I realised they are missing many many parts such as hdd, sometimes ram, keyboard, mouse, soundcards, cpu-fans and cables. I had to buy most of these things from ebay. Current status of expenses including car-renting, costs for the gas and parts I bought on ebay: around 450Euro.
Well, I have only the weekends left for repairing those computers and the previous 4 weeks I didn't do a thing. Right now I have around 35 computers completely done and ready to be sold.
4 of them already found a new owner for 59Euro. Most of the buyers are students looking for a way to chat with their ppl at home.
However, my motivation now is quite low. I will just try to sell all those 35 computers and later think of something for the remaining 129.. It's just so darn frustrating when the software simply doesn't want to install due to some undeclared reasons.
Btw, none of the live-cd solutions worked on these systems. The only good os that worked fine with most of the pcs were Win95, Win98, WinXP, SUSE7 and Redhat7. In the end I decided to only use SUSE7.
I think you can call me a professional SUSE7 installer now.
why did you remind me to this?
I actually never planed to get a cluster out of those computers but tried to fix and sell them. Once I started I realised they are missing many many parts such as hdd, sometimes ram, keyboard, mouse, soundcards, cpu-fans and cables. I had to buy most of these things from ebay. Current status of expenses including car-renting, costs for the gas and parts I bought on ebay: around 450Euro.
Well, I have only the weekends left for repairing those computers and the previous 4 weeks I didn't do a thing. Right now I have around 35 computers completely done and ready to be sold.
4 of them already found a new owner for 59Euro. Most of the buyers are students looking for a way to chat with their ppl at home.
However, my motivation now is quite low. I will just try to sell all those 35 computers and later think of something for the remaining 129..
It's just so darn frustrating when the software simply doesn't want to install due to some undeclared reasons. Btw, none of the live-cd solutions worked on these systems. The only good os that worked fine with most of the pcs were Win95, Win98, WinXP, SUSE7 and Redhat7. In the end I decided to only use SUSE7.
I think you can call me a professional SUSE7 installer now.
Zammy-Sam
Desertchild
right now I am selling Pentium 166mhz - 233mhz mmx with 128mb edo-ram, 2gb hdd, 2-4mb pci graphic cards, 4x CDRom, floppy, ethernet card, sound card and a 14-15'' screen. The price is 59Euro. In few mins I will sell another one.
So, what do you think? It's a good offer, huh? SUSE7 runs pretty fine on them..
However, from all those 164 pc only half is like this. The remaining is from 386DX 33mhz - Pentium 133mhz. Will do all remaining Pentium systems on the next run and look how much money I earned out of this. If I am not satisfied yet, I will try to fix those 386-486 systems and sell them at something like 39Euro or so. Otherwise I will just sell all of them on a local flea market.
So, what do you think? It's a good offer, huh? SUSE7 runs pretty fine on them..
However, from all those 164 pc only half is like this. The remaining is from 386DX 33mhz - Pentium 133mhz. Will do all remaining Pentium systems on the next run and look how much money I earned out of this. If I am not satisfied yet, I will try to fix those 386-486 systems and sell them at something like 39Euro or so. Otherwise I will just sell all of them on a local flea market.