Call for salvaged hardware!

D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Thu Jun 10 23:33:06 UTC 2010


| From: Matt Price <matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>
| Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:52:50 -0500
| 
| 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.  

How did this go?

Did it turn out to be a way to "consume" old computers?

How old?  I ask because I'm finally thinking of getting rid of some of
my heap of old machines.  Mostly PII era stuff.
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