[Discuss] Refurbishing PCs

[Andrew Boktor]

There is free geek (http://www.freegeekvancouver.org/) which I used to 
volunteer at. They're also in vancouver.
Andrew

On 03/25/2015 12:52 PM, Darren Duncan wrote:
> 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
>>> To: discuss at vlug.org
>>> 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,
>
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