On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 10:10:29AM -0400, Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 13:57:55 +0200 Adam Borowski <kilobyte@???> wrote:
>
> > Restoring old gear is an expensive hobby. Poor kids in Africa can't afford that.
>
> Putting together working gear by assembling disparate parts you get from
> electronic rubbish is free.
>
> I did it for a time for a school here in Paraguay, producing one working
> machine out of the wrecks of three or four old PCs given to the school by
> commercial businesses that had been upgrading their HW.
>
> And installing Linux (Mandrake 6.2 at the time) so the little dears could

                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> not bugger the installed OS...

Ie, it was in the last months of 1999. That gear was adequate for the time.
It is not adequate anymore, both because it can't match current computing
needs of unskilled users, and because of prohibitive costs to operate it.

Current parts you get from electronish rubbish are some i5 models, or Core
Duo if your rubbish pool is that old. Such machines are enough for most
tasks.


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