Call for salvaged hardware!

[bob 295]

You might try this group.

http://www.rcto.ca/Default.aspx

I tried unsuccessfully a number of years back to get this group interested in 
Linux.

bob


On Monday 07 December 2009 12:52 pm, Matt Price wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> some of you may remember that years ago I taught a linux-focussed "build
> your own computer" course using salvaged hardware. I'm reviving this
> course in the new year at a downtown elementary school, and am looking
> for parts for 15 or 16 systems that school kids will build up, install
> ubuntu on, and learn to use.  If it's successful, I'm hoping to expand
> the program out into a bunch of neighbourhood schools, and maybe get a
> kind of computer club going where kids learn a little bit of programming
> and systems administrations.
>
> Anyway, that said:  i thought I had a line on a substantial supply, but
> my source has fallen through.  So I'm putting out a general plea for
> hardware -- boxes, parts, monitors, keyboards, mice, etc...  Meanwhile
> I'll keep plying my other connections as well.
>
> As always, thank you in advance to the list!  you guys rock,
>
> Matt
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