The folks at BCS Engineering (Brandon and Carrie Saunders – who are also nice enough to host our web site for us!) and Cardinal Computing (Kellen Murphy) will open their doors on Saturday July 23 to help people try to revive old computers and then install Linux on either those computers or other working computers. The hardware session will start at noon. The software session (Linux installation) will start at 2PM.
The hardware session will focus on getting old computers that are not functioning to work. For the best chance of success, you should bring:
- A hard drive (any size will do)
- A motherboard (typically already inside in the case)
- Power Supply (also typically inside the case)
- Keyboard
- Mouse
- Flat Screen Monitor (there will be a few there that can be used that day)
They have some spare parts they can help swap in to diagnose things, but for security reasons (they work with financial data), they cannot provide any old disk drives. During this time they will discuss the basic parts of a computer and how they are connected.
The software session will focus on installing Linux on an old machine. You should bring your computer, either one you built in the earlier session or one you already know works. There will also be a few old machines around just in case the hardware fixing time was not as successful as hoped. During this time they will discuss basics on operating systems, Linux, and the installation of Linux.
BCS Engineering is locate at 486 Richland Avenue just south of Huddle Tire.