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Re: [LUG] HW: 15" CRT's Required / Cameroon / Good News

 

M.Blackmore wrote:

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 23:19 +0000, Tom Brough wrote:

The guy I am shipping them to aparently has a set of operational 486's so I guess the answer is yes they have the juice to run them.

That's better than the couple of projects I was involved in a few years
back, where they only had a solar panel or two (disconnect the water
pump at the appropriate time...) and a couple of water lifting windmills
that had been generatored. Watts rather than kilowatts.

Someone here in the small town/village we've just moved to has an
involvement with The Gambia, and in the place he's focussed on there are
just some solar panels. Wonder if someone has ever rigged up a bicycle
generator? Or an animal powered generator?


But I will suggest that in order to save power he disconnects the hard drives and uses them as thin clients only :-) another plus for LTSP technology ;-)

Can only help, but would the biggest contribution be flat screen? Must
be older generation small flatscreens around 14", 15", people are
ditching in favour of larger or higher resolutions ... they've been
around a few years now.

Must admit I've stuck my high-end mitsubishi diamondtron monitor into a
cupboard just in case I even need something with excellent colour
rendition (until such time as I can afford/prices drop/tech improves)
flat screen stuff can reproduce colours accurately enough etc.

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A quick google of linux bicycle reveals that there is quite a bit of activity in this area, especially with voip.

Anyway good news is that NAVTI have found the money so we are back on for transportation :-). Problem is I wont have the quota I need in time :-(

Tom.

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