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Re: [LUG] Computer recycling

 

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Malcolm Blackmore <mblackmore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed
>
> 've managed to get two old P3 Toshiba laptops from work which I'm going
>> to bung some Linux distro on and provide them to Surestart , 2011-01-05 at 18:35 
>> +0000, Rob Beard wrote:
>>
> I had two P3 Toshibas and 2 Compaqs donated from people in the village
> and they also went to childrens centres. I donated some pcmia wifi cards from
> linux emporium which I was never going to use now, so they are live to
> the network, and put supertux on them as well as tuxpaint and err the
> turtle programming programme. I found the best performance did in fact
> come from Puppy as I tried out a few on different laptops.
>
> What else does a 3 year old need??
>
> I might have 3 pcmcia wifi cards in a box in the loft I've been meaning
> to find so if anyone is in need of wireless enabling an old laptop get
> in touch with me in a week or two.

I would really appreciate one of those cards. Mum has an old laptop
that, when I get chance, is going to be resurrected from windows bloat
to a lite linux distro. Will help to expand my linux knowledge in the
process to.

roly :-)

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