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Sell/loan cheap computer in Santa Barbara?

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From: Thomas David Kehoe
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 1994 18:53
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Does someone in Santa Barbara have a cheap computer to loan/sell 
for a good cause?  Or even someone in Santa Cruz-San Jose area, 
and I'll get it down to Santa Barbara...

My ex-girlfriend wants to start a non-profit organization, helping 
foreign college students come here and stay with host families and learn 
English, and helping American college students do the same abroad.

She has a master's degree in ESL and has taught in Europe and here for 
many years.  Apparantly the organizations that do the above are either 
for high school students, or for-profit and overpriced.

Internet access would help her out so much.  But she is a single mom and 
40 and can't afford to spend much on a computer.  I had an old 286, but
I gave it to a neighbor.  Could someone loan/sell her a machine capable 
of running Windows and NetCruiser (so that she doesn't have to learn 
UNIX)?  Or any computer, I'll loan her a book on UNIX.
-- 
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they are another's." - Susannah Martin, hanged for witchcraft, 1692
Thomas David Kehoe     kehoe@netcom.com     Casa Futura Technologies
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From: kehoe@netcom.com (Thomas David Kehoe)
Subject: Sell/loan cheap computer in Santa Barbara?
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