Old Hardware

[der.hans]

Am 05. Apr, 2007 schwätzte Mike Schwartz so:

> Anyway, the connection to the comment from der.hans,
> for use in 3rd world
> countries,
> is that the other 2 PCs, we couldn't even find anyone
> from [e.g.] the Aztec Free-Net, who wanted them
> /would take them (brings to mind the phrase
> "couldn't even 'give' them "way"), and
> so I think I heard (from Woody [Norwood] Sisson,
> who by the way was there at one of the recent
> Developer meetings of PLUG [at Adtron])
> that someone had donated them to some project
> involving taking PC's to some place in Central America
> or something, where some

Apparently it's gotten to the point where 3rd world nations don't want old
boxen either. That's actually kinda good. They'e end up with old boxen
that don't work well and use a lot of energy, which is a serious issue in
many cases. Also, the computers end up in a land fill rather thay being
properly disposed of. We shouldn't be offloading our toxic trash to other
countries.

The beauty of donating such boxen to KidComputers ( and AZstrut ) is that
they go to a recyler to be disposed of properly and KidComputers gets
money for it.

I don't know for sure that proper disposal actually happens. I'd like to
know more. If anyone has direct experience please let us know.

ciao,

der.hans
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