Re: Obsolete equipment and donations

[Guusje Moore <Guusje@AOL.COM>]

I'm to the point where I classify old computers in the same category as a 50
year collection of National Geographic Magazine, encyclopedia's circa 1960
and someone's old college textbooks.

They are basically useless and take up value space to store and time to
dispose of.   Yes, you can use old computers for simple word processing but
our classrooms are limited as to physical space to put them, furniture to put
them on and plugs to plug them into.  Why clutter up a classroom with a
basically useless machine?   We've had teachers bring in ones they have
received from friends and they end up gathering dust, especially because they
are often to old to run the current versions of the software we use. These
days, if it doesn't have a CD-ROM drive-something very common among the old
Macs you can't even load current software.

We say thanks but no thanks, and if there is no way to gracefully refuse the
machine, it goes directly to our districts surplus equipment auction.

Guusje Moore
Librarian
Housman Elementary School
SBISD, Houston, Texas
guusje@aol.com

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