hardware recycling

[David J Patrick]

On 9/12/06, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> It seems economically infeasible.  We recently saw an example on this
> very list; a fellow whose name escapes me was given a bunch of
> circa-486 boxes to take them to Haiti to put together an "Internet
> Cafe."
>
> He quickly came to the conclusion that it was much more viable to
> scrap them and buy some low-end new hardware for the purpose.

well, sure, 486s are, total doorstops, these days, but the level that
folks are getting rid of is probably more like PIII, with PIIs
considered totally useless ! The folks in Haiti (or Rwanda, or Chile,
or) would ROCK with a network made outta dat !

one of our day-dreams, here at the caffe, is an ongoing program where
we  shake down the local community, for the hardware, and get the geek
squad (you, reading this) to buff it up, install stuff, test it, and
get it ready for shipping and remote admin. The turn-key, pallettized,
and shipped using funds raised in the process. We called it INDI
(International Network Deployment Initiative) and there is and will be
an ongoing need for the equipment we pay to get rid of.
djp
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