Comments on: The Great Computer Raid of 2005

By: bionicteacher

bionicteacher — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 02:26:00 +0000

Odd to see how different schools do things. We don't seem to throw anything away. I just went through about three closets worth of old computer parts. Everything we don't want goes to 'surplus' and I can't imagine how much stuff they have there.

The school did decided to see the iBooks from high school for $50 which I find insanely cheap. They are first offered to seniors and then it will be open to the public. You'd have to be crazy not to buy one as you can sell then on eBay for a couple hundred dollars easy. They haven't set the ground rules for the public sale yet but I'll be there if humanly possible and I'll take orders as well :). I'll let you know.

I can't understand why they don't push those laptops down to the elementary level and get rid of the old iMacs and 575s. It is probably because we too will be moving to Dell.

By: Tricia Bolster

Tricia Bolster — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 09:22:00 +0000

All you say is so very sadly true. I teach in another high school in our district, and many things are junked that could be used…old computers used as doorstops (well, we are getting some use out of them). Great idea. When the insanity starts in the fall, I’ll see what I can find to salvage…assuming anyone at my school knows how to get the goodies out of the machines…

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 04:57:00 +0000

The biggest thing I need to do is figure out how to upgrade the processors in the PCs, though that's not a terribly huge priority. They are Pentium Is, mostly. I have 3 133GHz processor machines. But they are fast enough to get online, word process, and run slideshows. Once I get Audacity on them, I'll be able to use them to create podcasts and other audio content. I just bought some 25 cent microphones from RAFT this morning and I'll get more later. And they will work just fine for kids to hop online and blog, the base-level application of these machines.

I don't need the latest and greatest to do what I need to do. I'll let you know what I can use and you do the same. I'll be going back to get more "junk" later this week, so there may yet be more hard drives and CD-ROMs in storage in my room. I think I grabbed all, and I mean ALL, of the memory already, though.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 04:14:00 +0000

Hey Todd if you need help upgrading some PCs or Macs let me know.

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:13:00 +0000

Let me know and I can help you rescue the goodies you find. I went back to ‘Creek and found more stuff yesterday (even though I told myself that I’d found everything I could).