[Wiltshire] Anyone near Melksham?

[Jake Davies]

On 05/12/10 16:07, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 12:50 +0000, David Fletcher wrote:
>    
>> Dianne has kindly offered suitable premises, so what we need, if this
>> is
>> to be done, is some _reliable_ volunteers who know how to put systems
>> together and have the patience to advise and assist folks who may have
>> never seen the inside of a PC let alone build one.
>>      
> If this is the route you want to take, I've also got a drawer full of
> broken PC parts (many donated by LUG members, thanks people!) that I use
> for schools visits - they can add cards, drives etc to an old
> motherboard to see how it goes together, without the worry of zapping
> working kit.
>
> But who _is_ our target audience? Surely anyone prepared to upgrade
> their hardware is already knowledgeable about available OSs?
>
> Don't we need to reach all those people who have a PC that's OK for
> their needs, but that won't run Vista or Win7? They are at risk now XP
> isn't supported, but probably don't know there's an alternative.
>
>
>    
>> and more than the two attendees that we had this month.
>>      
> OK, guilty!
>
> Dianne
>
>
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Windows XP is supported.

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