[ProgSoc] Donated HP Machines

Noah O'Donoghue noah.odonoghue at gmail.com
Wed Jan 5 14:49:03 EST 2011


I won't be. But for anyone that does decide to I was merely suggesting
their double-use as firecrackers... maybe wait till next new years
fireworks before you switch them on. ;)

If you want to remove the PSU's and throw them out it's fine by me..
The machines themselves should be good for parts, especially with
regard to the touch screen console and accompanying controller.

On 5 January 2011 14:37, Margaret Colville <mmaster at progsoc.uts.edu.au> wrote:
> On 5 January 2011 14:26, Noah O'Donoghue <noah.odonoghue at gmail.com> wrote:
>> However, A word of warning. While these machines were in perfectly
>> working order when I got them to my company, on plugging in two of the
>> ones I kept, they promptly went BANG,BANG, and the PSU blew up. So I
>> wouldn't be surprised if the donated ones do the same thing. I assume
>> all other parts other than the PSUs are serviceable.
>>
>> -Noah
>
> ...Um.  I hope you aren't planning on plugging in machines with a
> tendency to blow their PSU at ProgSoc...  Last time we blew a fuse, it
> took at least a week or two to get the Uni to give us power back to
> that half of the room.  :S  (Admittedly that was at least partially
> lack of time to chase it up, but still...)
>
> --
> Margaret Colville
> ProgSoc President
>



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