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

[Peter Stokes]

Hi Thomas

Let me know if you still need one after looking into these options as I 
may be able to come up with something suitable.

All the best

Peter


Jim Moore wrote:
> 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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