[LinuxBIOS] GIGABYTE GA-2761GXDK

Henry keultjes hbkeultjes at earthlink.net
Wed Dec 12 19:36:05 CET 2007


Lilian:

Below is a copy of my email dated 02DEC2007.

However, my own company, Microdyne Company, is now interested in
building cases to fit the GA-2761GXDK board.

We are already designing the tooling for this case and expect to have a
prototype soon.   We have already shown a mock-up of this case to
cardboard box manufacturer who can supply these boxes in very large volumes.

To proceed with these plans we urgently need confirmation that the
dimensions for this board are 8.0 x 6.7  and which side of the board has
the 8.0 dimension and which side is 6.7

Henry Keultjes
President
Microdyne Company
Mansfield Ohio USA
Direct 419-525-1111


Greetings:

This relates to the Toy Time project where, for more than ten years, we
have given used computers to needy kids at Christmas time. For
clarification, Toy Time used to operate under the Toys for Tots national
umbrella but the people of Mansfield objected to using part of their
donations to support a huge and, by Mansfield standards, overpaid
national staff with the president earning $280,000 a year, so we became
Toy Time about fifteen years ago and all work is still done by
volunteers. What cash we get we use to pay for utilities and such
building related expenses.

Instead of the current practice, giving these kids whatever usable
hardware is donated with a new ME install, we are planning to get a
small grant to buy newer AMD Athlon-64 based boards so we can give these
kids identical configurations installed in the donated hardware. The
reason for this change is that we want to teach these kids how to
assemble and troubleshoot PC hardware as well as teaching them how to
install Linux and then teach them programming, rather than just giving
them machines that they use mostly as toys. Supporting those teaching
functions with the great variety of hardware configurations that we
donate now would be an impossible task.

In emails with several people on the LinuxBIOS list I expressed the
desire to start this project with LinuxBIOS on a previous generation
board that is in plentiful supply and cheap like an AMD Athlon-64 single
core board. However, the ultimate objective all along has been to use
AMD Athlon-64 DTX boards for the next generation of this project because
all of the kids that get these computers are poor and reducing
electricity usage is therefore one of our objectives.

It seems that with the development thrust on newer boards that skipping
the first stage and going directly to DTX motherboards is achievable and
indeed, the LinuxBIOS list shows your project in Green already.
GIGABYTE GA-2761GXDK
<http://www.rssfeedbus.com/index.php?showtopic=1515> (Churchill)DTX AMD
K8 SiS761GX/SiS966 ITE IT8716F AMD Sempron^(TM) / Athlon^(TM) 64 / FX / X2 (?)
Socket AM2 OK Tutorial
<http://linuxbios.org/GIGABYTE_GA-2761GXDK_Build_Tutorial>

Would your company be willing to make at least one and preferably two of
the GA-2761GXDK boards with LinuxBIOS installed available so that we can
get the development stage of this project started with the objective of
having fifteen machines ready by 01 June 2008?

I appreciate your attention to this request!

Henry Keultjes
Toy Time
280 North Diamond
Mansfield OH 44902
Direct 419-525-1111





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