Re: [LUG] Recycle please!!!! was: venuesfor meetings,

[Rick Timmis <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Right, I will put a 486 desktop machine (Unit only) into the raffle as 
well, Saves chucking it in the bin

Rick

Brough, Tom wrote:

> 	>Why, only the other day I threw out a 486 that may well have had
> working 
> 	>comonents in it...
> 	-- 
> 	>From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley 
>
> 	I just wish you had not said that ........  :-(
>
> You can always find something useful to do with a 486. Just recently I sent
> a 386 laptop (640x480x16 mono) with 4Mb (25Mhz) 80Mb HDD. Only had Slackware
> 3.3 (console mode) to my inlaws in the philippines and my inlaws where
> nearly fighting over who was going to have it. They couldnt work out how to
> open the flip panel but thats another story (extreme remote tech support
> from 6000 miles) .....
>
> Planning to send 8 system units of various generations (386 to pentium) some
> time next year. Speed and features are nice to have but not an issue in the
> Philippines,  access to functional technology on the other hand is. Who
> cares if it is joe or kword they both function as wordprocessors, and you
> can learn the basics. IMO its nice to get away from the distraction of
> fonts,sizes, styles etc and concentrate on writing the (content of)
> documents.
>
> Tom.
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