On Monday 15 December 2008 2:21:14 am Joey Kelly wrote:
> After reading Petri's thread, I wonder how many ancient laptops are still
> out there, gathering dust? I brought a Toshiba Satellite 4025 CDT to Haiti
> with me, which I maxed out on RAM a while back (it packs a whopping 160MB,
> all told). Debian works nicely, I've even got KDE 3.x on it, which doesn't
> bog down the machine too bad. Also the wireless works fine (I finally got
> WPA2 sorted out, via kwlan).
>
> But about those boat anchors... I've been asked to scrounge old laptops for
> a couple of schools down in Haiti. I do not want to give them anything a
> sane person would consider "fast"... if you've got it, and it's worth
> anything at all, don't consider donating it to the cause.
>
> Anyhow, the schools (pix to follow) cater to very poor kids who cannot
> otherwise afford to attend school. There is no public education in Haiti,
> with the possible exception of a model school or two run by the government.
> A good school costs $600 per year per pupil, but the schools I'm talking
> about charge a hundred bucks per year, with the expectation that few
> parents will pay anywhere close to that... but the ones that do pay
> anything at all have the chance to say that they helped put their kids
> through school.
>
> To give you an idea of the economics of the country, one guy I met is an
> accountant, and he makes a decent living... $200 per month.
>
> Please note, I don't want old PCs... there are other uses for those, I'm
> sure. I can pack a couple of laptops under my arms, but desktops are
> impossible to bring with me on an airplane.
i have an old toshiba sat if you want it, you have the harddrive though, its
the one i gave you at the meeting that time
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