Legacy Evaluation Overview
Priorities for legacy systems
- if the computer does not fit the criteria on this page that is a reason for recycling it
- The Priority is top to bottom
AMD K6/2
- Ensure all major case parts are present (i.e. side and front panel)
- Replace hard drive(s) with a single, pre-wiped 6 gig drive
- Where can we go to retrieve additional pre-wiped 6 gig drives?
- Power up the system and ensure it recognizes the hard drive during startup
- Quickly place pulled hard drives into storage
- Storage for pulled hard drives is located between System Eval 1 and System Eval 2
- Things to remove from AMD K6/2 keeper systems:
- All nonproprietary cards (AGP, PCI, ISA, etc) except the video card
- All loose cables
- CD-ROM drives marked 40x or higher on the faceplate
- All CD-RW and DVD-ROM/RW drives
** NOTE: We should consider placing a whiteboard in Legacy Evaluation where we can list additional instructions that are subject to change, such as when to pull the following items not listed above:
- Tape drives
- ZIP drives
- Floppy drives
Incompatibles
- Amiga
- Apple, etc:
- Mac
- Radius
- PowerPC
- PowerComputing
- Commodore
- DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation)
- Sun
- Silicon Graphics (SGI)
- Indy (they're blue)