On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Charlie Bell wrote:
>
> >
> > Oh - that's some group that is running a save-energy campaign (I think
> > they are partly leftist or neo luddite also) as an Email chain
> > letter. Protest the evil empire societiy that demands you consume so much
> > in other words. They do have a point - lead article in today's paper is
> > about the problem of getting rid of obsolete computers that are toxic
> > waste and due to the endless march of so called progress are turning into
> > paperweights.
> >
> > Kristin
> >
>
> Except those machines are perfectly good for schools in deprived areas.
> There's a program to ship 386s and 486s to African schools. :o)
Do they have a website for that? Can you get me a URL to bookmark so that
next time we've got an obsolete computer, it can be disposed of more
responsibly? (I wasn't impressed when I took the P-90 to the Goodwill
computer store the last time we needed to get rid of an old computer....)
Julia
