DamnSmallLinux on Retro hardware

[Leo J Mauler]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:19:12 -0600 Brian Kelsay <bkelsay at comcast.net>
writes:
> Leo J Mauler wrote:
> > 
> >>> Naturally, the lack of a FPU prevented some of the 
> >>> DamnSmallLinux applications from working, but you 
> >>> can probably find a 486SX FPU chip for the cost of 
> >>> postage, or just use a 486DX.
> > 
> > Try a hardware newsgroup and mention your need.  
> > Some guy who has a wife who wants him to clear 
> > out that hardware, but he doesn't want to just throw 
> > it away, will drop a 486 FPU in an envelope and 
> > mail it out to you (so that he knows its going to a 
> > good home).
> > 
> > Back when 72-pin SIMMs had taken over and 30-pin 
> > SIMMs were hard to find, I did just such a thing and 
> > received a baggie of eight 1MB 30-pin SIMMs
> > in the mail for precisely that reason: free RAM to good 
> > home.  :)
> 
> Which hardware newsgroups?

I think it was comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc, though I'd probably
cross-post to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips and comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc.

Also, try out the linux groups, like comp.os.linux.hardware, or even
comp.os.linux.advocacy.  Linux tends to get "tried out" on older
hardware, so there are lots of people with older hardware on those
groups, and chances are one of them has spare PC parts gathering dust.  

And of course lots of older RAM.  Most people don't know what to do with
older SIMMs as most sales channels won't even give the cost of gas to get
to the store to sell the SIMMs (and it costs money to sell them on EBay
to an audience most of which don't even know what a SIMM is).  But if
they find out that a kindred spirit needs a couple old SIMMs, some will
send them to you for the cost of postage.

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