"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ha scritto:
> At 05:05 PM 8/26/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >Thanks for all the help and response to date. I am looking at various
> >options and will submit a summary of what I found worked best.
> >
> >I have always felt a sense of guilt about removing so called obsolete
> >systems (286, 386, 486) from service and throwing them away. Consequently
> >I have quite a pile of these. I am looking to donate my time and know how
> >to local organizations to get computers in front of people who would
> >otherwise not be exposed. If anyone has a similar project going I would
> >love to hear about it.
> >
> >Hal.
>
> Hal, that's my goal too. I'm still learning all the many and varied
> details for doing this, and slowly collecting at far too much expense, a
> collection of computers and parts. Unfortunately, the retail prices in the
> local second hand market are yet somewhat prohibitive and there isn't a lot
> of equipment in that market. Most of the old computers around this city
> appear to be kept in storage "just in case" and so are being wasted on
> dust. I hope for a goodly glut next spring.
Is 75$ for complete 486 machines too much? Italy if full of this hardware
surplus.
Howevere recycling problems born by using new softwares. Too fast growing
software, because RAID tools are used, is making hardware surplus, to break this
loop, I think, we must stop this never ending software growing.
RAID tools make programming easy but they still produce garbage, i.e: Hello
World c-programs of 32Kbytes!
To make recycling first step is change base software. That's stupid still use
W95 or friends on these machines.
Micro$osft empire is the major pollution factory. Unopened sources, hide and
undocumented way to do make impossible to cut piece of software which are not
required. How many people know the unistallation problem? How many files never
used or never seen are inside our HD?
It's naturally our HD is soon filled, or CPU get slower using new programs:
cutting software development costs means discard old pcs for using resource
wasting RAIDs, so micro$osft and friends get lower development cost because we
pay a part of them buying new hardware.
Break this stupid ring is step one.
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