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I am currently looking for a used computer to house the Triangle Woodworker's Association membership system and was hoping someone around here might have one they would care to donate to the club. TWA is a charitable organization and I can provide a receipt upon request.
The requirements are:
1. Either a laptop or small desktop
2. Pentium 3 or newer IBM compatible processor
3. A minimum of 512k RAM
4. 30 GB or greater HD
5. A CD-RW drive would be nice, but just a CD-R drive would work.
6. At least one usb connection and a parallel printer port
7. 10/100 Lan cable port
8. Windows XP or 2000 operating system would be nice, but not required. I can add one later. I can reformat if it has WIN 97
Monitor, keyboard, mouse or printer - not required, and really not desired.
To give you a better idea of what I am looking for - the PC will hold a MS Access application used to keep track of the TWA membership system. It will be passed to anyone performing that duty, so it needs to be small enough they could easily break it out and in the worse case scenario, connect their own monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer and internet cable when working on the machine. A laptop would work very nicely and also allow them to bring the system to the monthly meetings, if desired. I have a CD-RW drive I can put in the machine and maybe some memory depending upon the type.
The hard drive needs to be able to hold the OS, MS Office applications Word, Excel, Outlook and Access. The application itself is about 2 gb, and member photos will take an estimated 8-10 gb. The CDRW drive will need to be used to do periodic backups of the application and data.
I might be able to take a smaller HD, but need to check my personal used pc equipment first.
I am going top place the same request in the TWA newsletter if necessary, but do to this brainstorm occurring prior to publication time of the April newsletter I thought I would try here first.
Please email or send me a PM if you have such an animal laying around. I live in the Cary area and work in downtown Durham. So coming over to pick up the machine in most of the Triangle Area would be no problem.
Thank you for your consideration.
Rick
The requirements are:
1. Either a laptop or small desktop
2. Pentium 3 or newer IBM compatible processor
3. A minimum of 512k RAM
4. 30 GB or greater HD
5. A CD-RW drive would be nice, but just a CD-R drive would work.
6. At least one usb connection and a parallel printer port
7. 10/100 Lan cable port
8. Windows XP or 2000 operating system would be nice, but not required. I can add one later. I can reformat if it has WIN 97
Monitor, keyboard, mouse or printer - not required, and really not desired.
To give you a better idea of what I am looking for - the PC will hold a MS Access application used to keep track of the TWA membership system. It will be passed to anyone performing that duty, so it needs to be small enough they could easily break it out and in the worse case scenario, connect their own monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer and internet cable when working on the machine. A laptop would work very nicely and also allow them to bring the system to the monthly meetings, if desired. I have a CD-RW drive I can put in the machine and maybe some memory depending upon the type.
The hard drive needs to be able to hold the OS, MS Office applications Word, Excel, Outlook and Access. The application itself is about 2 gb, and member photos will take an estimated 8-10 gb. The CDRW drive will need to be used to do periodic backups of the application and data.
I might be able to take a smaller HD, but need to check my personal used pc equipment first.
I am going top place the same request in the TWA newsletter if necessary, but do to this brainstorm occurring prior to publication time of the April newsletter I thought I would try here first.
Please email or send me a PM if you have such an animal laying around. I live in the Cary area and work in downtown Durham. So coming over to pick up the machine in most of the Triangle Area would be no problem.
Thank you for your consideration.
Rick