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John Horne wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 16:51 +0000, Rob Beard wrote: >> Grant Sewell wrote: >> >>> Oh, we have some "old" machines for them to work on. Most of them have >>> some severe problems - I've even had one which had a knackered VGA BIOS >>> on the onboard display adaptor, only 2 PCI slots, both of which were >>> needed. Hmm. Oh, and the College seem to have an agreement with Dell >>> now, so we don't have "old machines" anymore. :( >>> > >> Would the college allow you to take donations of old machines from LUG >> members? >> > Probably not. If there is an agreement in place, then it (usually) means > that the supplier will remove the machines after a certain time. We have > an agreement in place at the moment at our site, and are being supplied > with around 5,000 PC's/laptops. After 3 years, I think, they will be > removed and replaced with something else. The point is that we don't > have to worry about their disposal. In removing old stuff from our site > previously we have had to pay people to come in and take it away. As > such we wouldn't want anyone giving us old equipment again :-) > > > > John. > That's fair enough I suppose, especially with getting rid of machines becoming so expensive. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html