RE: OT: Begging Letter

["Timothy Morris" <timothy.morris@xxxxxxx>]

Graham,

I've got a P90 (or P75) lying on the floor here that needs a floppy
drive.

It's yours if you can collect it from Surrey.

Tim.

-----Original Message-----
From: graham_howe [mailto:graham@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 01 February 2002 12:47
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] OT: Begging Letter

First off, I am sorry if anyone is offended by the following outright
begging letter. If you don't appreciate someone asking for something
for nothing then please hit your delete key now. I will not post
again regarding this matter and suggest that responses are sent to
me "graham at solarfish dot com" rather than the list.

A friend's daughter has started going to college this year and has no
cash, her parents are not well off either. She needs to have a
computer at home for simple word processing of course material and up
until now has been using an old 486sx running windows 3.11. This
machine is second hand and circa 1994. She had an old HP printer with
it that has completely given up the ghost, so she bought a new cheap
Epson printer. Unfortunately the Epson will not work with 3.11 (no
drivers prior to w95 and nothing but blank pages with older Epson
drivers) so I have taken her PC to try to upgrade it to Win95.
However, at about 2.30 this morning I finally gave up, the hardware
is just too old. The 200Mb harddisk did accept windows 95 but with
8Mb of memory and the 486sx processor it is very slow. I can not get
the sound card to work at all and as this has the CD controller on
it, I have no CD working either. Very lengthy searching of the
internet have failed to turn up a working driver for this card (the
company went out of business in about 1996). The motherboard is AT
form factor with no PCI slots so there is little I could throw into
the machine by way of an upgrade.

So, with this sob story in mind, here is what I am looking for:
A PC (monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers not required) that can
happily run windows 95. Minimum spec is probably pentium 100, 16Mb
RAM, 1Gb disk, CD Rom, Sound card, Video card capable of 800 x 600 at
reasonable colour. There is no requirement for internet access, email
or any upgrade potential as this will only be used for word
processing and some simple drawing. When she has finished college and
started work then she will either be supplied with a computer, or be
in a position to buy one, or be doing something where a computer is
no longer required. Software is not an issue as I will almost
certainly wipe the machine and set it up with a clean install of
windows and word etc.

She can not afford to pay anything for this, so I am looking for
someone who has something lying about gathering dust, or a company
about to send a load of written off machines to the scrap dealer. I
have some basic components in my bit box, so could replace the odd
component that wasn't up to scratch, but I certainly don't have
enough to put together a whole PC. I am also wanting to avoid anymore
late nights searching the internet for ancient drivers, so I would
like to know that the computer had successfully run windows 95 in the
past.

Thanks in advance

Graham



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