Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:03:27 02/10/99
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On February 10, 1999 at 01:56:53, Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com) wrote: >>If the P200's are so cheap, why don't you buy one and donate it to the >>SSDF? > >Hmmm ... a lot of people will be upgrading their computers to PII/450's >and the like. In the U.S., one often donates the older computer to a school >or nonprofit organization, since the government allows a tax writeoff for >donations to appropriate nonprofit organizations. > >Is the SSDF a "qualified" nonprofit organization? >If not, could they become or organize such an organization? >If not, would people be willing to donate their old computers, anyway? > >I imagine that, for the U.S. to Sweden, the shipping alone would be >expensive. Also, alas, all my "old" computers are slower than P200's, >and even slower than the P90's. And, besides, they are Macs. > >Another option to help the SSDF, would be to make one's computer available >to an SSDF tester remotely over the Internet, somehow - given the time >differential between the US and Sweden, it seems that this could be done. Do you have to be Swedish to join? I'm 1/2 Scandanavian, so maybe I qualify, but I'm 1/4 Norwegian, so that probably throws it right out the window! ;-) Why not have computers all over the world join? I have two computers in my house and a bunch of programs. Maybe I should buy a serial cable and play along for the fun of it.
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