Club Activities
This page is for special club activities. Please forward any questions or comments to the board of directors at our Web site e-mail address webmasters @ uchug.org, or directly to our President at president @ uchug.org or bring your ideas to our meetings.
SWUG Conference 2007
Smart Compuing at the March 07 Meeting
Club Computer Project
April 2001 - April 2002 The club membership built a project PC. At the meetings the membership discussed hardware, software, built the PC and installed the operating system. The system consisted of the following:
USE
CD Burning
Internet Browsing
Movie/Graphic/Music Editing
Play DVD
Printer
Upgradeable - Look to Future - End Use
Word Processing
SOFTWARE
CD/DVD Program
Movie/Music Editing
Operating System/Browser - WIN 98 2nd. Edition
Office Suite
Software to give above capability - Freeware where possible
SYSTEM COMPONENTS
Hardware to support above software - Speed of components
Case/Power Supply (300+ Watts) $60 $53.64
CD/RW $150
Floppy (1.44K) $16.95
Hard Drive (40GB) $120 $118.37 (40GB IBM 7200 RPM)
Keyboard/mouse
Memory (256M) $59 $50.64
Modem (56K V90)
Monitor (.26 - 1600 X 1200) $149
Motherboard/BIOS/CPU/Video/Audio (1.2 Athlon + Motherboard) $289 $213.93 (The motherboard for our computer project is manufactured by Soyo www.soyo.com.tw and is a model SYK7VTA-B. Go to www.soyo.com.tw/product/k7vta-b.htm)
Video Card $150 $76.60 (ATI All in Wonder)
Total Estimate to Date - $977
Spent - $530.13
The club has installed Windows 98, Linux Mandrake 8.3 and Windows XP operating systems. We continue to use the system for various demonstrations of hardware and software at the general meetings.