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• Peter to confirm there are no salvageable parts in the computer so the computer can be disposed by ChemIT staff.
• Confirm that the research group currently has no plans to reinstall the source code on another computer.
• Jack approves that this project is to be considered completed.
• ChemIT staff properly dispose of this very old computer. This includes ensuring the hard drive is destroyed so others can't get any data from it (ChemIT's standard operating procedure), to address Peter's concern.

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  Peter writes (4/5/13):
  Skeeve decommissioning:

1. At this stage Skeeve is a defunct PC. It may or may not hold private data, we do not know. The data should be shredded. To use this PC or to scrap should be decided.

2. The box is old but still better than most PCs we currently use with our spectrometers. I know it has 4 GB RAM, which is fine for what it could be used for. I did not look inside, but it is good to know what it

has:

a) processor?

b) Hard drive?  ATA or SCSI?

c) network card?

d) expansion slots? - PCI/ISA

e) video card

If HD is ATA, we replace it with a new one and try to install generic XP or 2000/2003, given Dell MB drivers are available for this box, particularly for the chipset and graphics.

If HD is SCSI, disk shredding and reformatting to NTFS should suffice.

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Strategy

Short-term: Port to virtual machine (VM). Either with old OS or new OS, but either way, 32-bit.

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