On Thursday 31 January 2002 10:58, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
is it worth organising another workshop in Sandwell ? try to make it free, bring you own servers and clients and see what we can get working?
Yes, very much so! I went to the first one last year and found it was great. I've got 5 or 6 redundant boxes around 200 Mhz in a dry but unheated storeroom. Once the weather warms up a bit again I'm going to get stuck into them again. What I'm missing is the higher spec server but I'm just going to use one of the boxes as a server simply for a learning exercise dry run. What I've learnt so far: 1. Physically getting into some of these old boxes can be a hell of a job - they really had some daft cases last century! 2. Bits and bobs are often missing / not working so have a supply of floppy drives, mice, keyboards lined up - I use redstore. Nigel -- Nigel Pauli - I.T. Manager St. John's School, Northwood, U.K. http://www.st-johns.org.uk/