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Article #680Re: Old computers for Linux
From: atec 7 7
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:58
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:58
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Phil-c wrote: > L.A.T. wrote: >> "L.A.T." <tonyt@sci.net.au> wrote in message >> news:DW1Rl.12408$y61.285@news-server.bigpond.net.au... >>> I live on the south coast of NSW. >>> I have half a dozen old, working, computers with CRT screens. They >>> could all handle Linux. >>> Anyone who could pick up one or all of them can have them. I hate the >>> idea of their going to the tip, but that will be their fate. >> No interest. >> Out they go. >> Sob. >> > > > WAIT!!! Before you do that > This may help > Companies that you could Contact for recycling your Computer > All Australia - www.mri.com.au/ > All Australia - http://www.recyclingnearyou.com.au/ > All Australia - http://www.computerbank.org.au/ > NSW - www.bower.org.au/ReferralService.html > WA - http://www.clickonline.org.au/ > VIC - ComputerBank > VIC - www.pcgraveyard.com.au/ > QLD - www.greenpc.com.au/ > QLD - www.briscomcomputerrecyclers.com.au/ several of those companies wont pick up and are not run "not for profit" but rather to benefit the owners > > Failing that local St Vinnies or the salvos > will find a home for them only if they meet a certain std and you deliver them . > Cheers > > Failing that locate your local Telecentre Rural Transaction centre > > they would know who wants them or even take them themselves >
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