[P1] I have to find out what it is. -new life for old macs

Fred Stevens K2FRD K2FRD at stny.rr.com
Thu Nov 6 10:52:34 PST 2003


At 10:27 -0800 06/11/03, Russ Gorman wrote:
>>
>Those of you with older Macs going unused;
>  take them to your local public school and donate them - just take 
>them to the office- here in Portland they have a wide range of Macs 
>-some so old  and beat up it would make you cry.

Good thought. Although I live in a very rural part of upstate NY 
(more cows than people), however, our local schools are well-endowed 
with uptodate Macs, thanks to one man (David Dewey), a dedicated 
technology teacher who has passed along "The Word" throughout the 
area.

<snip>
>As a side note, compared with the 30 Macs in my daughter's two 
>classrooms, there are six old Windows/PCs that are rarely touched 
>because they are unreliable, but there is pressure on the school to 
>switch to Wiindows/Intel partly because many parents here work at 
>Intel...

Whatever you can do to dissuade them from this action, do it! <g>

-- 
73 de Fred Stevens K2FRD
http://home.stny.rr.com/k2frd/K2FRD.htm



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