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RE: Re: cheap 486's...
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- Subject: RE: Re: cheap 486's...
- From: "Nikola Kasic" <nikola@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:01:06 +0100
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The
bank, I am working in, is in fact paying to some company to remove old
hardware.
They cannot just take them away, they need to wipe disks so no sensitive
data
will be exposed. Probably all those PCs end up on some computer fair at
some
point.
Nik
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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