RE: Re: cheap 486's...

["Nikola Kasic" <nikola@xxxxxxx>]

Donating old PCs is a good PR excercise for the companies, but children should not learn DOS, but some more modern OSes.

If you cannot run Office 2000, but Word Perfect for DOS, then it's useless for school because, I suppose, children should learn something that it's in use in working environment.

There is always argument about Linux, but since it's Office is nowhere close to challenging MS Office at work, it's a bit debatable.

I don't object using it, because it's free, but MS usually gives it's software for free for schools as well (they know what they are doing).

The funniest thing I read is that in some recent case against MS, verdict was that they have to donate some milions dollars worth of software to schools. They would do it anyway.

Nik

-----Original Message-----
From: psghome2002 [mailto:psghome@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 July 2002 09:56
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: [ukha_d] Re: cheap 486's...

My partner is an Assistant Head at a Primary school - they dread
being given old computers as they're useless to them (schools demand
fast PC's as they're running some pretty good software). When I
worked for a computer manufacturer - we used to give the old PC's to
a charity in Romania.


--- In ukha_d@y..., "steevc" <steevc@y...> wrote:
> I've seen Compaq Pentium 75 machines at a computer fair for £15.
They
> should be giving away 486 machines. My employers have a clearout
> sometimes, but give them to schools. I expect that a lot of old
PCs
> just get dumped. Let's give them a good home.
>
> Steve
>
> --- In ukha_d@y..., "Lee Varga" <lee@v...> wrote:
> > The local computer fair...
> >
> > Try:
> >
> > www.computerfairs.co.uk/
> > www.afm96.co.uk/
> > www.theshowguide.co.uk/
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > Andy Laurence <andy@a...> wrote:
> >
> > >> 2nd hand 486, say  15 quid again
> > >...or £5, if you have to pay for it (they're going free all the
> time).
> >
> > So where do you guys get your old 486's from ?
> >
> > Stuart
> > --
> > Stuart Booth
> > Somewhere in Buckinghamshire, England, UK



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