[ale] EQUIPMENT DISPOSAL - OT

[cfowler]

Its easy to donate your seconds much harder to donate your firsts.


On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 14:49 -0500, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> 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.)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Chuck Huber
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 2:10 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] EQUIPMENT DISPOSAL
> 
> ale-request at ale.org wrote:
> 
> Message: 10
> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:05:43 -0500
> From: "Stephen R. Blevins" <srblevi at worldnet.att.net>
> Subject: [ale] EQUIPMENT DISPOSAL
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
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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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