Re: [Nolug] boat anchor laptops

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:08:29AM -0600, Curtis 'cSc' Smith wrote:
> 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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That reminds me, Joey - ever do anything with that old HP smp brick
you offloaded from me a while (>4 years) back? I am just
curious...hadn't thought about it in ages.

Brett

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