[TriLUG] My organization is looking into donation possibilities for old comoputers.

[Tom Eisenmenger]

Hi Chad,

By now you probably have found a home for these but, if not, I could 
sure use them in my networking lab at Chowan College.  The College has 
been leasing its student and faculty machines for the last 7 years so 
there have been no newly-retired machines for me to use in my Networking 
and Computer Hardware courses for some time - the machines I use are old 
Pentium- and 486-class machines that have been dwindling in number 
through attrition.  If the operable machines are already promised but 
the "parts" PCs are still available, I might even be able to use them as 
a teaching tool by showing the students how to bring them back to life 
(if possible).

Thanks !

Tom Eisenmenger

Chad Thomsen wrote:

>We have about 15 old Pentium 3s (833mhz 128mb ram with windows 98 with
>Office 2000/97 OEM), mice (compter type), monitors, and keyboards we are
>looking to donate to a charitable cause.  We also have a small handful of
>"parts" PCs which do not run.  Preferable doantion woud be a non-profit so
>we can get a tax write off, but that is not critical.  As long as these
>machines find a good home thats all that really matters.
>
>So far I have only found one organization (www.kramden.org) that takes old
>stuff.   I have been in contact with Durham County Habitat, Orange County
>Habitat, Trosa (Durham).
>
>Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Chad
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