how to redonate an old computer to a kid

[torque63]

http://www.ehow.com/how_4559633_redonate-old-computer-kid.html

 

[Nelson]

http://www.ehow.com/how_4559633_redonate-old-computer-kid.html

"Re" donate?

 

[Franc Zabkar]

http://www.ehow.com/how_4559633_redonate-old-computer-kid.html

Kids, whether rich or poor, want the latest and greatest. They will
not be satisfied with someone's hand-me-downs.

You may have to "redonate" your old computer a hundred times before
you find a kid that's grateful enough to take it, and unashamed to use
it.

A lot of poor people are poor because they spend like rich people.
Here in this country, most "Aussie battlers" are self made.

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- Franc Zabkar

 

[jakdedert]

Kids, whether rich or poor, want the latest and greatest. They will
not be satisfied with someone's hand-me-downs.

You may have to "redonate" your old computer a hundred times before
you find a kid that's grateful enough to take it, and unashamed to use
it.

A lot of poor people are poor because they spend like rich people.
Here in this country, most "Aussie battlers" are self made.

</end of rant>

- Franc Zabkar

I beg to differ. I don't know what the OP has, but my daughter was the
ecstatic recipient of an Athlon 2.0 gig machine on her birthday. I
hooked it up to her stereo system and put a PCI wireless card in so that
I wouldn't have to run copper to her mom's desk for internet...doesn't
even have an LCD monitor.

We had gifted her pretty heavily earlier in the day with swim
paraphernalia (she's a competition swimmer). While she was at swim
practice (two hours/day, five days/week), I hooked up the system in her
bedroom. When she came home I handed her 'one last present'. It was a
mouse in a plastic bag. 'What do I do with this?' I told her she might
need it some day, and to go put up her swim stuff. (She didn't get it....)

The shrieks of delight from her room were music to my heart and ears.

Frank, you've got a jaded view of kids...at least some of them.

jak

 

[Adrian C]

I've sent old ones to Africa.

And this happens to them :-(

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/gallery/2008/may/06/computer.waste?picture=333898276>

 

[Franc Zabkar]

I've sent old ones to Africa.

Foreign aid to Africa is a case of poor people in rich countries
giving money to rich people in poor countries. I've donated a lot of
money to World Vision in the past, but never again. Africa is in a
state of perpetual war, aid projects go to ruin after the volunteers
leave, food convoys are hijacked and the produce sold on the black
market, corrupt officials pocket aid money for themselves, etc, etc.
Rampant HIV/AIDS will kill most of the population by the end of the
next decade.

Better keep your old computer and set it up as a print server, or
paperless fax machine, or audio/video jukebox, or dedicated standalone
word processor.

- Franc Zabkar

 

[Adrian C]

The kids are making money selling the scrap metal. Problem?

Yes, no one is teaching them how to do 419 scams. Far more lucrative....

 

[Franc Zabkar]

A local volunteer group has a list of over 40 kids waiting for _ANY_
used computer they can get. They are trying to find enough parts to
catch up before Christmas day. They said most of the computers are Win
98, with 2 GB hard drives.

I have two Athlon PCs, from a deceased estate, that I can't give away.
My father had a 5-year-old 68cm LG TV, with no history of faults, that
he couldn't give away (in the end I sold it for AU$50). I have a
working dish washer that nobody wants, and a computer desk and hutch,
in excellent condition, that I'll have to dump because I already have
two. I take electronic gear to the Salvation Army, but I suspect most
of it ends up in the trash. In fact they once told me that no-one
wants "old" stuff. Nowadays I just cannibalise old TVs, etc for parts.

BTW, here's a use for old floppy diskettes:
http://images.teamsugar.com/files/users/1/15111/28_2007/floppy-disk-pen-set.jpg

- Franc Zabkar

 

[Franc Zabkar]

No local freecycle group? http://www.freecycle.org All that stuff is
taken quickly, around here. Sometimes there are over 50 requests for an
item. People even take dead TVs and other electronics.

Thanks, I found one. Looks good ...

- Franc Zabkar

 

[z]

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare.
Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.- Hide quoted text -

well, isn't that basically where they came from in fact, assuming you
believe in evolution?

 

[Adrian C]

BTW, here's a use for old floppy diskettes:
http://images.teamsugar.com/files/users/1/15111/28_2007/floppy-disk-pen-set.jpg

Brilliant! making one right now

 

[Franc Zabkar]

Brilliant! making one right now

Here are more recycling ideas, but not quite as easy to replicate:

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/19242/854561.jpg
http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/j_mayer_typewriter_robot_1.jpg
http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/j_mayer_typewriter_robot_2.jpg
http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/j_mayer_typewriter_robot_3.jpg
http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/j_mayer_typewriter_robot_4.jpg
http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/j_mayer_typewriter_robot_5.jpg
http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/j_mayer_typewriter_robot_6.jpg

- Franc Zabkar