[Nottingham] Does anyone have an old laptop, please?

[Jim Moore]

The bad news: all the units I had to that sort of  spec had to be
shredded after they caught four and a half tons of contaminated
rainwater and exploded in green copper-oxidey goodness soon after when
my  garage roof  collapsed in 2006).

Now the good news:

good place to hunt if you have no luck here:

http://www.freecycle.org/group/UK/East%20Midlands/Nottingham

and then there's:

http://www.wasteonline.org.uk/resources/InformationSheets/ComputerRecyclersRefurbishers.htm

which details several dozen techcycle firms/charities (including
Nottingham based Eluse which last I heard ran from the Shipstones
building off Radford Road), at least  some (including Eluse) should be
more than willing to release a unit to your spec.

HTH :)

TLP

On 7/24/09, Thomas Preece <thomas at tpreece.net> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> First please excuse me for begging - I wouldn't normally but I am
> asking on behalf of a charity!!
>
> At URN, your local impoverished student radio station, we've come up
> with a clever way of doing outside broadcasts - but in order for it to
> work we need a dedicated computer from which we can stream our audio
> back to the studios for broadcast... and we can't afford one at the
> moment. :(
>
> As we need to cart it around, the machine being a laptop is essential,
> but as it would be a dedicated single-purpose machine, the spec we'd
> need is fairly low. I reckon we'd be looking for something running at
> around 700MHz or so, preferably with about half a gig of RAM. Oddly
> enough, having a functioning dialup modem (in Linux, of course) or a
> machine old enough to have a serial port to attach one to would
> actually be an advantage for this application (because a phone-line
> link to our studio would be very reliable, can be used at basically
> venue, and would give us just enough bandwidth for broadcastable
> speech) - however we'd also need a couple of USB ports.
>
> Anyway, if anyone on the list has a machine of this sort of spec which
> they were planning on throwing out - please consider donating it to
> us!! (And yes, we are a charity - or at least a part of one in the
> form of the Students' Union)
>
> Many thanks for any help you can give us!
>
> Thomas.
>
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