Obsolete equipment and donations

[Cheryl Sturgeon <csturgeo@OHIO.NET>]

Just finished reading an article in the newspaper about the state of
Massachusetts instituting a ban on the dumping of TV's and monitors.  At the
end of the article it states the Alec Rosen, a spokesman for Apple Computer
suggested people donate their used computers to schools or charities.  "All
of them would love to take a good computer off of someone's hands," he said.
"There are a lot of gooo uses for old computers, Macs and PC's."

Riiiiiight!  We have had many donations to our district and our tech dept.
spends much time trying to glean what they can from them but for the most
part they were donated because they were not Y2K compliant and could not be
made so or they are just NOT fixable and that's why they were dumped.
Now we have to figure out how to dispose of them.  One method is a page on
our website offering it for free.  Its at
http://www.highlandschools.org/equipment/index.html

if you want to take a peek.  The Touch Window shown works! We just don't
have any more operable Apples to put it on!

What has been your experience with donated computer equipment?

Cheryl Sturgeon
Elem. Library/Media Spec.
Highland Local Schools (OH)
csturgeo@ohio.net
csturgeo@highlandschools.org

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