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On 10/10/12 21:40, Dave Foxcroft wrote:
On 10/10/2012 13:27, Rob Beard wrote:Hi folks, Rick Timmis has been in contact with a pre-school in Exwick who are looking to setup a computer suite similar to the Internet Cafe at the Exwick Community Centre. They're looking for about 6 PCs for the kids to use (the details are a bit sketchy at the moment but I'd guess they're wanting something the kids can play educational games, access educational web sites etc on). I've already put a request out on Freecycle and Freegle in Torbay and Teignbridge and on Facebook to see if anyone has any machines or bits they can donate and I wondered if anyone might possibly have any old computers or bits kicking around that they want to get rid of? I understand the idea is to install another LTSP server. I figure if the kids are using something like Tuxpaint then it's also probably a good idea to have a printer or two (maybe a couple of old Epson or HP inkjets since the compatible ink cartridges are fairly cheap to get hold of). If anyone has any old printers, networking kit (a gigabit switch would be ideal, or a 100Mbit switch with a gigabit uplink)... I know it's a big ask... then they'd be most grateful. I can collect to a point (I'm in Torquay and don't mind picking stuff up from around Torbay, although I'm not working at the moment and funds are limited so if possible maybe arrangements could be made for stuff to be picked up and dropped off at LUG meets?). Anyway... if anyone can help then they would be great and I'm sure it would be a great way of getting the kids interested in things like Tuxpaint etc from an early age :-) (and maybe it would be a good showcase for parents who have PCs bogged down with Vista and XP!) RobI have 6 with 17'' LCDs - All the same Novatech model - I think the base spec is AMD sempron 2600+, 512MB ram, 40GB hdd, CD Rom..... All black and grey in colour. These ran XP Pro and were removed from a primary school after a windows 7 upgrade. I think there are keyboards and mice -they are welcome to them. I also have a Dell 3110cn Colour Laser - I pulled it from a school due to a copier install -I think it just needs toners - they can have it if they want it - it's pretty big! I don't have any gigabit switches but I do have a couple of others lying around - one is a 24 port 3com superstack 3 with fiber module...not sure what the others are, I'd have to look but again they are more than welcome to what's there. I'm in Launceston but don't mind a run up to Exeter so I can deliver.... Cheers Dave
Dave that would be brilliant thanks :-)I'm not sure what we're doing about storage arrangements at the moment, if it comes to it I could store them until we can drop them off at the pre-school (assuming they don't already have somewhere they can store them safely).
I'll drop you an e-mail off list in the morning about it :-) Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq