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RE: Re: cheap 486's...
I
thought companies these days prefer to scrap old PC's rather than give them
to
schools/charities etc because of the risk of being
sued?
ISTR a
case a few years back of someone suing because an old PC was donated to a
school
or something and it went wrong in some way.
You
give away a PC, it blows up, you get sued basically. I know a few
co's
I've worked for just dumped their old machines because of this sort of
thing -
they didn't want to take the risk......
Also,
you have to spend time to wipe the disks because you cannot supply an OS
etc
without proper licensing. Can you imagine the effort involved in
wiping
200 hard disks, rather than just dumping them in the nearest
skip?
Tony
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
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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