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A few days ago LOGOS BTI has posted an article calling for charitable donation
of used computers for Russian schools. Their site (lbte@caticsuf.csufresno.edu)
goes down for a while soon. Please send all questions and replies to me
(kibirev@CSA.BU.EDU) and I'll forward them to LOGOS by non-electronic way.

Sorry for this inconvinience,
							   Oleg Kibirev

Here is the original article, if you didn't get it:
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Did you know that your old PC can get a second life? LOGOS Biblical Training
International is now accepting contributions from everyone who cares about
technical education in countries of CIS.  We take your 8088 or slow AT that
hardly have any use in US anymore and donate it to russian christian or general
education school.
 
Many have heard that computer education in former Soviet Union is awful.  As a
russian exchange student, I can confirm it.  In fact, most high school
programming is taught on what we call "paper computers" (grader executing the
program in their head)!  Others are using toys similar to Commodore.  Even
university students are forced to learn FORTRAN and COBOL on hopelessly obsolete
Hewlett Packard and IBM dinosaurs (i.e. pirated clones).
 
Since high schools and universities are still exclusively state-(un)supported,
situation is not going to improve soon. Broke government is not going to make a
difference. Will you?
 
We hope that the mission of LOGOS can help building technical bases for
spiritual ressuraction of Russia. All contributions to LOGOS are fully
tax-deductable.
 
LOGOS accepts computers, printers, motherboards, hard drives, memory chips etc.
We are primarily interested in IBM series (8MHz XT or better) and MACs.  All
equipment should be functional and in reasonably good shape.  Shipment fee will
be paied by us.  If you have a fast PC (like 386) and want to get SOME
compensation for your contribution, you are welcomed to contact us.  However, we
can't pay full market price.
 
Also, please forward this article to sites that may be interested in our
suggestion: computer leasing companies, universities with large CS department
etc.
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NOTE: LOGOS BTI is a nonprofit organization, therefore this article shouldn't
be considered to be commercial use of Internet.
 
Also, sorry if you read this outside US. ucbvax.berkeley.edu seams to ignore
Distribution: line in mail header.
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	  Call us for details: (209)252-2655 (contact Victor Reimer)
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      2025 N.Gateway Blvd, #104, Fresno CA 93727
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Some more notes: Victor Reimer is in Russia now for ~3 weaks. Please