old but new stuff

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Michael Hipp <michael at redmule.com> wrote:
> On 2012-03-15 3:21 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> anyone who truly "needs" 15 year old hardware arguably has far bigger
>> problems in their life.
>
> Methinks you exaggerate a bit, I didn't have any Semprons, Pentium 4's or 120G
> hard drives in 1997. Some hobbyist might have fun with it, but not much more.

Au contraire.  I volunteer in a local charity that takes in donated
'puter stuff and
harvests some for metals, and refurbs some for local families with children who
might otherwise be 'puterless.  We install XP, 500MB Ram, at least 30GB drive,
modem, NIC, video, monitor, keyboard and mouse.  I don't think we put out CRTs
any more, but we did within the last 12 months.

With a current wealth of machines to refurb, we limit refurbs to machines with
clocks of at least 1800 MHz.  We just stopped doing Dell GX-50s and 60s.  Right
now P4s are perfectly acceptable.

We give away from 5 to 20 systems per week.  Too bad we're not closer
to Houston,
but if you want to drive to the West coast, we'll gladly take a donation.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD