[Klug-general] [Fwd: Computer Hardware]

[Kevin Groves]

Mike Evans wrote:
> 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?
> 

I replied to this guy to let him know and he sent me mail back saying
thats good news. Started talking about other stuff now.

Kev

> 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:
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Subject:
>> Computer Hardware
>> From:
>> "Neil LT" <bj2kuk at gmail.com>
>> Date:
>> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:32:18 +0100
>>
>>
>> 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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