[ale] EQUIPMENT DISPOSAL - OT

[Jeff Lightner]

That reminds me of a few years back.  A co-worker took a sabbatical to
run a half-way house for refugees from the former Yugoslavia.  He was
trying to train them on computers and they had an old 486 running DOS
similarly old apps.  He wrote asking if our boss would donate a spare
keyboard because the one they had was flaky.  (Ultimately the VP of the
division got wind of it and donated some REAL computers to the half-way
house.)

What was amusing was another co-worker on hearing what this one had
imagined doing the interview for a job for one of these refugees:

"You're familiar with 486 and DOS.  We don't often get people with THOSE
qualifications."  

(You'll have to imagine the ironic tone he used to say that.)

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Chuck Huber
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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:05:43 -0500
From: "Stephen R. Blevins" <srblevi at worldnet.att.net>
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Subject: [ale] EQUIPMENT DISPOSAL
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I have a couple of working monitors and an *old* IBM PC (it's already
been maxed out at 64MB).  Anybody know where I can get rid of them,
hopefully for free?  Thanks in advance.

-- Stephen R. Blevins srblevi at worldnet.att.net


Stephen,

Donate them to a local tech school, like Devry or ITT Tech.  You can
take a tax deduction on them, it benefits the students, *and* it becomes
their problem on how to get rid of them.

A little monolithic biaveryicide.


Enjoy,
    - Chuck
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