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[Bob Hassett <bob AT purple.ils.unc.edu>]

Greetings, all: 

My name is Bob Hassett and I'm a graduate student in information and library 
science at UNC. I confess to some misgivings about my first post to the list 
being a pitch, but ...

I'm organizing and directing a project this summer to put a small (10 
terminal) Linux-based, thin-client computer lab in Chapel Hill High School. 
We're going to make it available to the students beginning in the fall and 
encourage any interested instructors to use it however they choose, whether 
it be for simple, Web-based research or for teaching programming, networking, 
administration, whatever.

Anyway, the school has a number of older PCs to use for terminals. In fact, 
one of the project's goals is to help them make use of these older boxes that 
are or will soon be gathering dust. What I'm asking is whether anybody here 
is interested or knows of anyone who might be interested in donating a 
new(er) machine for use as a server. Ideally, it will have at least 512MB of 
memory and some fairly non-trivial storage capacity. A tape drive would be 
nice, but not essential. And the setup calls for two Ethernet cards.

I know I'm going way out on a limb here but I feel like I'd be foolish not 
to. This is an exciting project that will help to make networked computers 
available to more students at reduced cost, as well as giving the next 
generation of developers valuable experience working in a Unix-like 
environment.

In addition, if anyone has suggestions, perspectives, or experiences to 
share, please don't hold back. Thanks everybody for your consideration.

---Bob.

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