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Posted: 2nd Jan 2003
check out community centers, and churches, and food banks, and place like that .. they can use them .. or do a web search for .. donating computers.....

thats right i look like an albino ape that has had a bad day.. go ahead say something stupid... i dare ya !

Posted: 2nd Jan 2003
Give it to me.

Just kidding, I know salvation army here deals with them. A library may possibly want one for a internet access point.

Posted: 2nd Jan 2003
take it appart and ebay off the parts. People pay rediculous prices for gear on ebay (I made 1000% profit on something i bought then sold again on the internet last month). Then if you wanna give the money to charity do so.

Posted: 2nd Jan 2003
Thanks Flid, but the computer is that riduculously old that I don't think it would fetch anything, even in parts. It has the following exciting and useless features:

No CDrom drive
No internet access (for those of you wondering how I access the internet, it is via my flatmates computer)
Windows 3.1 with a very nifty version of Wordperfect

But the monitor is in good nick, so with some work it could probably be upgraded. The CPU itself would have to just be taken for parts (the tower casing only has a disk drive (and a real floppy disk drive for those who remember that)). The keyboard and the mouse are real base versions, but could be utilised still.

Ahhhh well we shall see. I found a bunch of people called ComputerBank who accept donations of computers, work on them, and donate them to schools, charities and low-income families. I am going to see if they would like it.

It was a day for screaming at inanimate objects.

What this calls for is a special mix of psychology and extreme violence...

Posted: 2nd Jan 2003
BTW the CPU is actually the main processor chip which is about the size of a watch.