Terry Collins wrote:
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Yep, this is very limited use.
Well it depends on the expectations of the users. If everybody wants to run
StarOffice, then there isn't much hope of supporting them on discarded hardware.
Pentiums run SO WP okay.
If users hqve an
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Peter Jason Hardy wrote:
The figure that predator quoted (600,000 rather than 800k) was probably
from a study done by Dames and Moore consulting engineers, using some ABS
statistics in their report.
So there are stacks of them around in theory. The problem
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So there are stacks of them around in theory. The problem is that
286's, 386's and 486's are very limited use.
Depends on what you mean by limited.
486s can serve as X-terminals
386s can do text based web browsing and mail, again diskless
286s can do telnet
Yep, this is very limited use.
Well it depends on the expectations of the users. If everybody wants to run
StarOffice, then there isn't much hope of supporting them on discarded hardware.
Latex
Pull the other one. I love LaTeX and have used it for 15 years, all the way
back to the old
Terry Collins wrote:
Latex
I must have got the wrong impression about this thread - I didn't think it
involved torture. ;) Markup is well and good for precise techies, but I
don't think Latex is an appropriate tool to drop on someone's desktop
(stories of Latex-friendly secretaries aside...
Then I think CB needs to adopt the same stance as TAD - Say NO!.
That's what CBNSW or rather the putative CBNSW has done by default.
Since nobody is inclined to accept any more offers, we are saying not
YES! which is therefore !YES = NO!
Or charge to take it away and thus earn the organisation
this aint at 61 Hume st is it?
dave
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All,
It's
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Dave Kempe wrote:
All,
It's at Crows Nest.
A couple of carloads of stuff, including lots of made-up serial, power
and other cables, some monitors, a couple of i386 boxes, some
telephones, a WY-120, etc etc etc.
I'm not yet sure it's all available but I'd like
Ever considered getting in touch with Technical Aids for the Disabled (TAD), at
the spastic centre. They work hard at providing disabled people (who are
generally very poor, but I won't start my social ranting here) with computers
for internet access and the like. They might be able to use it,
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, you wrote:
Ever considered getting in touch with Technical Aids for the Disabled (TAD), at
the spastic centre. They work hard at providing disabled people (who are
generally very poor, but I won't start my social ranting here) with computers
for internet access and the
Yes, I have - TAD can't be bothered returning my calls, and last time I
spoke to them they wouldn't touch anything less than a pentium.
The situation is that the country is awash in discarded computers, I've
heard a figure of 800k computers being replaced each year. I'm not
surprised TAD will do
The situation is that the country is awash in discarded computers, I've
heard a figure of 800k computers being replaced each year. I'm not
surprised TAD will do nothing, they're probably short of help, which is
the limiting factor.
Not to appear ungrateful to people who donate but without an
Jamie Honan wrote:
Just to back Ken up here. Several of us met at the Crystal Palace Hotel
to see what we could do for Computerbank.
Jamie - any chance of a summary, or is Basil posting it on
Computerbank?
The figure that predator quoted (600,000 rather than 800k) was probably
from a
On the news yesterday they announced that IBM were going to donate the
hundreds of computers used in the Olympics to Computerbank when it was all
over.
I wonder if this is true, and whether IBM is planning to actually assist cb
with logistics?
The other thing that's happening on the recycling
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