Donating old hardware
Does anyone know any good NGO/School which could use old tech hardware ? I have printer, cd-drives, LOT of cables, networking gear, PC (PII 266Mhz, 14″ monitor) and bunch of misc other stuff.
I’m just curious, what have all of you done with your 4 to 8 year old computer equipment? (The working ones ofcourse)
Home router !
Home lan !
-nerdy
Given it away to poorer students, and/or sitting in my closet.
I had about the same configuration machine at home 3 yrs back. When I bought myself a new system, I put an ad on FreeAds and a dude came and bought the old machine for 8K and I had shelled out 80K for it when I bought it part by part!!
Kewl !
The school that showed me light could do with a PC. Presently they dont have none. Let me know the rates at which you are planning to dispose these.
IF these are *working* then it’d be nice to get a PC for the school.
Here you go…
http://ashanet.org/index.php?page=donate-pc
I’d trade in on upgrade, and sold it all to buy my flight ticket.
Curious co-incidence – my dad called me this morning to tell me that he was trading in my old PC in my parent’s home for a new deskjet printer.
“How much is that floppie in the window” (with apologies to the old song!)
How much do you want for your old printer? Let me know…and if you are donating a useless (so far) wireless router…let us know too….
Same here.. but now all the students carry better machines then what I have 🙂
I know how it feels. I saved up my own money in college to buy some stuff, now they are nothing. Now that really hurts 🙁
Re: “How much is that floppie in the window” (with apologies to the old song!)
Am not charging for the printer.
If your router is still under warrenty, maybe its time you send it back
that happens ? Know any places in blr ?
Are they good ? I hope its not a CRY kinda thingy
Hm.
Apart from the thing that it is all run by volunteers seeking zero compensation, I hope it is way better than CRY.
Let me know if it doesnt meet your expectations.
During the process some small company contacted me as that cnofig was perfect for them as they performed only data entry work.. try free ads..
Our bro’s firm too did the same sometime ago I think it went here
http://www.ashanet.org/projects/project-view.php?p=137
Yup, they’re looking for machines to run a school lab with. They have two from Rotary Jayanagar so far.
how abt Slashdot !!
Just search slashdot, have seen threads abt what to do with old hardware?(apart from donating), some interesting uses r mentioned there…
From Asha Bangalore
Hi Kalyan,
I am Asha Bangalore volunteer. We do have one project in Madivala (Bangalore) to support the slum children who go to govt school. We help the kids learn through computers. We have a few computers donated by Philips (6 of them) for a whopping 1000 kids of higher std. Let us know where you are located at so that we can follow up with you. The computer may also be donated for other Asha chapters as well like in Hyderabad and Chennai. Contact me at kolanupaka@yahoo.com or other chapters from their contact page in http://www.ashanetorg/chennai or http://www.ashanetorg/hyderabad. Thank you.
Giri
Giri
Asha Volunteeer at Madivala school
Hi Kalyan,
I work as a Asha Volunteer at Madivala School Computer Center, Bangalore.
We are a group of 5 volunteers who visit the school on weekends and teach computers to kids there. The students are from Class 6 and 7.
There are close to 120 students and we have 6 computers working one. It will be great if you can donate you machine to us.
Please contact me on : +91-9341263434 for any further clarifications.
Rasmi residential school for underprivileged girls
Hello Kalyan ,
Stumbled across your Journal today … I know that the administrators of this school (www.rasmi.org ) are looking for equipment to teach the kids operate computers…Check it out.
– Neetu
Re: From Asha Bangalore
FfIRE is a humanitarian organisation working in the fields of Health, Education, Economic Empowerment and Culture. We are interested in enabling the people living in remote forest and rural areas become aware of computers. If you or anyone is interested to donate old computers in working condition, we would greatly appreciate it. The present need of ours is an OVER HEAD PROJECTOR. Could someone help us?
drleslie@vsnl.net