[linux] Fwd: Linux volunteer?

[Richard Lotz]

Anyone interested in lending a hand?

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Rik Gran <gran at dirac.phys.washington.edu>
> Date: Thu Jul 10, 2003  15:10:50 US/Pacific
> To: linuxug at u.washington.edu, wcole2401 at netscape.com
> Subject: Linux volunteer?
>
>
> Hello.  We are looking for a volunteer for a linux install on some old
> (486 and pentium) hardware for a physics research project (WALTA). If
> there are any students on your mailing list who might be interested,
> please forward this to them.  They can contact me at the e-mail address
> at the end of this note.
>
> We have a pile of old-ish PC hardware (486 to pentia), and would like 
> to
> make two or three working data aquisition (DAQ) machines out of them 
> for a
> physics experiment.
>
> Our needs for a DAQ machine are simple, take the data off the serial 
> port
> and send it via network to the central server.  The data rate is low
> enough that the old hardware should be completely sufficient.
>
> The interested person will make a couple machines run, and if they are
> very interested, can work on the scripts necessary to automate the
> transfer the data.  The code to communicate with the serial port is
> already written.
>
> Unfortunately the only form of payment we have is Coca-Cola, and I will
> take the person out to lunch once or twice, so we are looking for 
> someone
> who wants to do it and has some spare time this summer.
>
> I think we have the parts for approximately 3 machines, so I do not 
> expect
> this task to take very long.  A week?  Any hardware that still does not
> work or is left over will be surplused or recycled.
>
> These machines will be used for the WALTA project, either for our 
> testing
> at the University of Washington, or for deployment to Seattle Area High
> Schools.  More information on the experiment can be found at
> http://www.phys.washington.edu/~walta
>
> An interested person can contact me at the e-mail address below.
> Thank you.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Rik Gran
> Research Associate               Department of Physics
>                                  Box 351560
> gran at phys.washington.edu         University of Washington
> www.phys.washington.edu/~gran    Seattle, WA 98195-1560
>
>
>
>
>
-richard

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