[H-GEN] Computer Hardware For Sale or Give Away

[Simon Ellis]

Hi.

Previously we have been used as a dumping ground for old and useless
equipment and volunteers have given their own time and money to collect some
of these machines.

To be fair to Linux and people's expectations, particularly when comparing
Linux to MS Windows, after much discussion Computerbank QLD decided to set a
minimum acceptable donation level of 700 MHz PIII's for machines to be
useful and practical with current versions of Linux with GUI (generally KDE
or GNOME).

Currently most of the donated machines are of lower specs. so we do what we
can. Lower spec. machines which work but are not really useful to us are
given to other organisations for reuse instead of being dumped. One such
project is a donation to a school in the Solomon Islands.
So lesser spec. but working machines are put to good use.

Apart from donations to needy individuals, our projects have included
schools (Ubuntu Linux Lab), PCYC's, aged care home and other community
groups.

We have not seen many donations this year as our corporate donors went
through their hardware refresh last year and the year before.

Donations for CBQ may be made at

Career Employment Australia
29 Cambridge Street,
COORPAROO 4151.

This is we have use of premises and hold our workshops.

CBQ holds workshops to prepare machines and accept donations nominally 9 am
to 2 pm Saturday fortnightly, (by arrangement it is the alternate fortnight
to HUMBUG).


Thank you.

Regards,

Simon Ellis.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sandra Mansell" <sandra at mansell.id.au>
To: "General Email Humbug" <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Computer Hardware For Sale or Give Away


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> Simon Ellis wrote:
> > If you would like to donate them to ComputerBank Queensland, (
> > www.cbq.org.au ) I would be happy to arrange their collection.
>
> We wanted to give some to cbq after seeing them on tv. However upon
> looking at the website it says they must be PIII 700Mhz or better. We
> ended up taking most of ours to the Dell recycling day at Griffith uni
> earlier this year. Alas our hatchback is small (especially with space
> being taken up by two baby seatbelts going to the anchor points) so we
> threw some stuff in the skip we hired when we moved out.
>
> Are you saying that you'd actually take PII and celeron stuff? We may
> have a few more we can give away (I was going to list them on freecycle
> but we don't know the status of the machines so it's likely nobody would
> come and get them).
>
> Sandra.
> -- 
> sandra at mansell.id.au
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