[Klug-general] [Fwd: Computer Hardware]

[Mike Evans]

There are certainly organisations in the UK that recycle older hardware 
for use in voluntary organisations and education.  I'm a little 
surprised that IBM isn't already well connected to them.  So, sorry to 
be suspicious, but do you know the provenance of this email?

Of course they probably don't put Linux on them and it is possible that 
it is hard to fond places that won't take the latest and greatest.  I 
could ask at Legal & General who takes all their older stuff.

Mike

Kevin Groves wrote:
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> Subject:
> Computer Hardware
> From:
> "Neil LT" <bj2kuk at gmail.com>
> Date:
> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:32:18 +0100
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> 
> Good Morning,
> 
> I was wondering if you could help me. A friend of mine, who live across 
> the pond in the good old US of A, runs a 'Not for profit' organisation 
> where he accepts old computer hardware from people, and then configured 
> the equipment for GNU/Linux and then either gives the equipment away to 
> people/places that need it or for a nominal cost (i.e. what it has cost 
> to supply it at what the user want if they want something specific that 
> he doesn't have available).
> 
> 
> I work for IBM, and on one of our sites we have a surplus of old 
> equipment, base units, monitors, keyboards, mice etc. I was wondering if 
> you happened to do anything like that or knew of anyone that did, as at 
> the moment all this equipment is going to be scrapped, and to me that 
> really is a waste of resources.
> 
> Many thanks for your time
> 
> Neil
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