[TriLUG] rfc on motherboard for anti-establishment pc

[Jim Ray]

recently, i dropped my anti-establishment pc (non-intel and 
non-microsoft system) en route to the open source lab at exploris.  it 
hit the sidewalk rather hard and fried the motherboard or processor.  i 
really need to buy a new pc since it is a few years old yet spent way 
too much money prior to dec 31 to reduce tax liability and am low on 
$$$.  repair is inevitable.

so, my request for comment is as follows:

does anyone have a recommendation on a replacement motherboard/processor 
that takes the old 512 MB SDRAM and IDE hard drive?  currently, the 
motherboard is MSI and processor is AMD Athlon.  am i better off 
chunking the old one and chocking it up to experience?

better yet, if someone has a beater machine they want to donate to 
exploris and take a tax write off, i can donate my parts to beef it up.  
then, we can leave our ubuntu machine in the server room online at 45 
Mbps for the open source lab to use.

regards,

jim

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