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Re: [LUG] Computer recycling

 

On 09/01/11 20:17, Malcolm Blackmore 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??


Sounds about right, my youngest who is 4 absolutely loves Tuxpaint, I was really impressed to see she can work her way around the application with no help whatsoever. :-)

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.

Will do, these two Tosh laptops I'm working on have no ethernet (well they do but they have a separate port expander which I don't have), so I've had to pop in a Xircom PCMCIA ethernet card so I can set them up.

Rob

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