James Kirkpatrick, Donald Feller, and I worked on September 27 on three different machines that had been donated since the preceeding meeting to see the exact status of those machines. Two seemed be in limited working status, but there was one 486 with 4 meg of memory that worked fine. We have a very limited supply of SIMMs, but we tried to see if any of them could be used to expand the 486 to at least 8 meg, but were unsuccessful.

On October 4 James Kirkpatrick, Donald Feller, Merritt Ford, and I were expecting Ron Forest from a Christian School in Barstall to come with some old machines that had been donated to his school, and we were going to help him get them operational, and any equipment he did not need was going to be left with us, but he apparently was not able to make it. We hope to see him when we meet again on October 25. If not, we will still have plenty of machines to check out, because I have several in my garage that people have dropped off, and I picked up 6 PS2s and 2 other machines from a company in Broken Arrow.

If you are interested in learning more about hardware, and how to work on old computers, you are welcome to join us at 10:00 am on October 25 and again on November 1. If we ever finish checking out new donations, we will remove some of the 286 motherboards from machines we can't seem to get to work, and we will rebuild those machines using some motherboards that were donated by members who had upgraded their machines to later 486s and Pentiums. Many of the motherboards we have do not have manuals, so if you donated motherboards to us and happen to run across the manual, we could use it. Also if anyone has any extra 30 pin SIMMs that they have left over because they upgraded to a motherboard that needs 72 pin SIMMs, we could certainly use more of them.

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