[ale] Disk laundry and nominal value of old computer

[F. Grant Robertson]

I'm pretty regularly getting $225 for pII 450's and a 17" monitor.  I consider it 180 for the box and $45 for the monitor. Yes, it's high, but people are paying it <grin>

Also, I'll probably post a formal FS: on this but, I have a Sun Ultrasparc 5 270Mhz workstation with 256megs, 4 gig and a 17" sun monitor for sale. Solaris 7 on it but I don't have the root pass. If anyone is interested, I'd sell it to a list member for $375. Oh, yeah, sun 5 keyboard and mouse too.. the thing is in immaculate almost unused condition. If interested, call me at 404-388-9797 or email me at grant at alexiongroup.com

-G


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From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of John
To: ale at ale.org
Mills
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 11:54 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] Disk laundry and nominal value of old computer


ALErs -

I want to arrange friends' donation of an old computer now running WinNT:
350MHz PII 'ACER', 64MBy 100MHz SDRAM, 6 GBy HDD, 40x CDROM, 8MBy AGP
video, mouse and keyboard, PCI sound, built-in NIC, 15" SVGA monitor.

I believe we have the WinNT installation CD(s).

I need two pieces of information:

1. What would be a reasonable value for this box, as a tax-deductible 
   donation, and

2. Is there a simple, free tool (other than Linux 'fdisk' &8-)* I can use 
   to wipe these folks' files off the HD? (Reasonable 'commercial 
   quality', not to defeat any of the three-letter agencies.) Does one of 
   the HDD manufacturers give away such a thing?

* It may get Linux to offer services on a school's LAN, but not yet.

TIA.

 John Mills
 john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu

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