Evan, There are Small form factor (SFF) DC5800 by HP on site that you can have. They have sale / disposal restrictions, but you could run it until it dies and return it for disposal. There are legitimate volume license keys you can utilize, although keeping it patched and W10 free while not on a domain is going to be a challenge. Martin On 2/5/2016 12:26 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
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.
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.
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.
I have a spare USB keyboard/mouse to donate. VCF owns a few small-ish square LCDs, but we could definitely use a donation of a modern wide-screen LCD -- perhaps a 22-inch or around that size.