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Article #232Computers For Russia
From: lbte
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:04
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:04
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o _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _____ ____ ___ ___ / \ / \ |\_/| | \ | | | | | \ / \ | | | | | |_ / | | | |__ |__/ \___ | | | | | | | | | | | \ \ \_/ \_/ _|_ _|__|_ \_/ | |___ | | \___/ \___________________ FOR RUSSIA ______________________/ 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. -- 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. ______________________________________________________________________________ / LOGOS Biblical Training International <-> lbte@CATI.CSUFresno.EDU \ Call us for details: (209)252-2655 (contact Victor Reimer) Fax : (209)123-4567 _____________________________________________________________________________ 2025 N.Gateway Blvd, #104, Fresno CA 93727 \______________________________________________________________________________/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!CATICSUF.CSUFRESNO.EDU!lbte From: lbte@CATICSUF.CSUFRESNO.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Computers For Russia Message-ID: <9207211704.AA15460@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 21 Jul 92 17:04:31 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 52