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Thanks for the update Tommy&mdash;I know I'm the one that's behind-hand in responses here....

Russ will be clarifying the Asset Disposal routine with Ms Banks and Dr Conlan.  Thank you for marshalling all the equipment around and recording the inventories.  

Tomorrow (Tues 4/14) I'm planning to come by Canter in the afternoon, overlapping your planned time there.  I'm looking to backup the ersatz-server data to a portable harddrive.  But also maybe we can take a look at those old-model laptops, depending on what Russ and Ms. Banks have to say about them.  

By coincidence, I've been playing with loading one of those CPS Dell-CFI image DVDs onto a USB pen drive and installing the OS (and full CPS image) from that... But so far, no joy.  Even with a computer that DOES boot from a USB pen drive but without the image-loading stuff.  Also we have an external USB-connected DVD/CD reader, and these computers don't boot from that, even though they will boot from the very same DVD in their DVD drive (and will boot from USB under some circumstances).  I think the portable reader doesn't serve up the boot track, or doesn't make the computer aware of it.  

So this may not be the way to go, but I'll bring the portable reader anyway.  We can also try the network install if there is a suitable OS disk.  It's not unlike the Ghost process, but may take some fiddling. 

Cheers,

  ==Mitch