[Discuss] Refurbishing PCs

[Darren Duncan]

Related to my post:

http://www.usedvictoria.com/classified-ad/Volunteer-Computer-Technician--Installer_21636302

And the poster of that, a year old, was Larry Gagnon.

-- Darren Duncan

On 2015-03-25 12:47 PM, Darren Duncan wrote:
> There was a service "Find a Computer a Home" (FACAH) I donated to several times
> over the years, most recently in late 2011 or so I think.
>
> Their website seems to be down but the Internet Archive has a copy at
> https://web.archive.org/web/20130706004142/http://www.freewebs.com/facah via
> which you should be able to get contact numbers or something.
>
> -- Darren Duncan
>
> On 2015-03-25 12:24 PM, Deryk Barker wrote:
>> Hmmm, Computers for Schools BC seem a little too fussy and the ERA nearest
>> drop-off is in Vancouver - I don't think so.
>>
>>
>> Anyone know of anywhere else?
>>
>> deryk
>>
>> -------
>> Deryk Barker, Faculty Emeritus
>> Computer Science Department
>> Camosun College, Victoria BC
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: discuss-bounces at vlug.org [discuss-bounces at vlug.org] on behalf of Richard
>> James [raj at rjassociates.ca]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 11:19 AM
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>> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Refurbishing PCs
>>
>> On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:33:32 +0000, Deryk Barker wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I understand there is at least one organisation in town that refurbishes old
>>> PCs and then sells them cheap/gives them to those in need.
>>>
>>> Given that I have (apparently) at least four old PCs in the basement, several
>>> of which actually boot, if anyone has the coordinates of such an organisation
>>> I'd love to know them.
>>
>>> From BB&C's website:
>>
>>   Computers for Schools-BC has donated over 85,000 computers to schools
>> and libraries all across British Columbia (http://www.cfsbc.ca/).
>>
>> The Electronic Recycling Association is a non-profit that donates
>> computers to charities (http://www.era.ca/donations/recycling/).
>>
>> The former "Find a clone a home" project appears to be defunct.
>>
>>
>> Richard James, P. Eng., PTOE,
>> Richard James & Associates,
>> Victoria BC,