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Re: Old computers for Linux

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From: atec 7 7
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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