Re: Old Computers

[Wes Davis <wlrdavis@EARTHLINK.NET>]

   Oh, my!  I spent $100 each of my OWN money buying and upgrading
486 and P75 machines last year so that my students would have computers
to use in my classroom.  (I now have ten at a cost of $1,000)  It truly
breaks my heart to see them thrown out.  Those of you in the college ranks
routinely throw away stuff that we in high school teaching would love to
have !

    Wes



> When we "demoted" a bunch of 486 computers, we couldn't bear to throw them
> out, so we kept about 30 of them.  A year later we hadn't touched them, but
> we demoted 25 or so Pentium-75's.  We threw out the 486 and kept the
P-75's.
> A year later we demoted 25 or 30 Pentium-133's.  We threw the P-75's out of
> storage and stored the P-133's.  This happened again.  Today we have
P-233's
> in storage and are beginning to demote P-333's.  We will probably clean out
> the storage room of P-233's and put the old P-333's there.  We haven't
> learned our lesson yet.