<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>3.) At Strode, Martin had his students building working computers<br>out of scrap ones, documenting the process and installing Linux on
<br>them. Dealing with hardware will make you a dab hand at upgrades<br>and will teach you troubleshooting - but you need supervision of some<br>sort. It's also a useful recycling process - if written up properly,<br>it might even form coursework for something like Craft,Design and
<br>Technology :)<br><br>4.) I'm sure someone could donate you old computers to build networks<br>with. Look up "stone soup supercomputer" on Google :)<br>____________________</blockquote><div><br>As it happens i have a large pile of PCs and parts, lots of empty cases
<br>All need to go to a good home very soon or they will end up in a skip somewhere<br>perfect for 3 and 4 above<br><br>Alistair<br>Microbitz Service Centre<br>01749 675467 <br></div><br></div>