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Subject: Re: Your Gift to the SSDF

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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