-----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic- bounces@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org] On Behalf Of Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic Sent: 05 February 2016 05:26 To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Cc: Evan Koblentz <evan@snarc.net> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] So, we're going to need an office computer.
We're going to need a computer for the new museum's office/workbench area.
Requirements:
1. It must have a very small footprint. A full tower, anything rack-mounted, servers, etc. are not suitable for our current situation. Ideally a "mini" case (ha! a minicomputer...) would serve us well.
2. We don't need a laptop and would rather have a desktop anyhow, so we can more easily upgrade it and avoid proprietary stuff.
Conflicting requirements detected. Most small footprint cases have some level of proprietary crap.
3. Its motherboard should have a sufficient CPU and enough RAM capacity to run a modern operating system.
4. Serial port. :)
5. We'll need this in the next few weeks.
The small footprint IBM/Lenovo boxes would seem to fit Most have a couple of slots and a serial port.
That's about it. I figure we can buy a cheap SSD, install Windows 7 SP1 -- which is the least-worst version of Windows -- and make it dual-boot into Linux. I can do all of that myself, but it would certainly save time if the system gets to us already configured this way.
Sounds a good iea. Dave