[CIMC-working] New Office PC

[Ian Bicking]

I got the PC today.  Actually, Audrey Berns deserves most of the thanks,
since she did most of the arrangements.  She's been doing radio work
with Rita, but the rest of you haven't met her.

Anyway, I've set it up with Windows 98 and some standard software.  It's
a P3 733MHz, 128Mb RAM, 10Gb HD, with a Zip disk.  It includes a nice
flat-screen monitor -- I think 17", plus a mouse, keyboard, and
speakers.  It cost $50 -- I had brought it up a while ago.  Audrey
definitely picked out one of the nicer computers that were available.

This isn't video capable, but certain is fine for audio.  I believe the
sound card (Sound Blaster Live) is pretty good for recording -- the most
important issue is if it adds any noise when recording onto the machine,
and I think I've heard the SB Live is pretty good in this respect. 

Obviously it's fine for image processing and any text.  It has USB;
maybe we'd also want a media-card reader for downloading images.  You
can get a compact flash/smartmedia combo reader for $20 on sale, that
should work on both Macs and PCs.


I also have a lead on someone donating another PC  -- a P2 with a
monitor.  I'm thinking of installing some form of Linux on it, to add
variety and stability to our lives.  If we ever had a truly public lab
Linux is a nice option and this can be something of an experiment.  


-- 
Ian Bicking <ianb@colorstudy.com>