[olug] Old and BROKEN hardware...

[Michael Ray]

I havesome striped 200/166 i will give up and some old
harddrives 500/700 megs let me know 
--- "Daniel G. Linder" <dlinder at iprev.com> wrote:
> Eric (any anyone else who is getting rid of
> hardware):
> 
> For what it is worth, there is a use even for that
> motherboard with the blown chips, the hard drive
> that only clicks when powered up, and that mouse
> that stopped moving long ago....  Ask the local
> school if their computer education classes could use
> a "junker" PC to let the kids see the "magic" inner
> workings of these machines.
> 
> Sure, they might be a Pentium 75 or an old 486-33,
> but my wife's class just *LOVES* the fact that there
> are pieces of a computer they can get their hands on
> and look at up close -- have you ever pulled the cap
> off of an EEPROM and looked at under a good
> microscope?  Another great thing is that you
> *should* be able to use it as a deduction from your
> taxes ("I am not a lawyer, please see a real one for
> further details." --Dan).
> 
> This year I plan on taking an old P-75 with a small
> 500MB HD and installing a bare-bones Linux install
> on it (and lock it down accordingly).  My wife can
> then take the pieces one by one, show the kids how
> they go together and then have a working system at
> the end of class -- of course with a smiling Penguin
> on the monitor!
> 
> If the equipment is still functional, you could also
> look at donating them to smaller private schools
> that are hard up for money.  My youngest sister went
> to a non-denominational Christian school and their
> "latest, greatest" computer of the time was about
> 4-5 years old and the average was probably a year or
> two older than that.  They might not be Linux
> converts, but with the draconian pricing schemes
> that Microsoft is imposing, Linux might be their
> only legal recourse!
> 
> Dan
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