[ale] Please help me give away PCs.

[esoteric at denali.atlnet.com (Wandered Inn)]

Jon Rennie wrote:
> 
> Off topic but in line with a recent thread.
> 
> I have between 60 and 100 PCs and almost as many monitors and a few other
> things to give away.  There are conditions.  I work for the federal
> government.  I need to find a tax-payer supported educational institution
> (school)  somewhere in the Kindergarten through 12th grade range to take
> this stuff.
> 
> The greatest number of the CPUs is Dell Optiplex 433s/L CPUs (having a 33MHz
> '486SX chip) with 8MB RAM average and minimum 210 MB hard drive.

I suspect you're out of luck.  Most school systems have specific
requirements for there machines.  A 486 is not going to run any of the
software they have.

What part of the government?

You'd probably have better luck trying to convince a college to take
them on as a beowulf project.

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