[vcf-midatlantic] So, we're going to need an office computer.
Dave Wade
dave.g4ugm at gmail.com
Fri Feb 5 14:13:26 EST 2016
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> 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
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