SB: Re: Request for Stuff/Tools for Mexico CqueC

["Robert W. Tom" <ArchiLogic@yahoo.ca>]

Athena and Bill Steen <absteen@dakotacom.net> wrote:

>We (they) need the donation (or at a good price) a used pick-up truck that
>is serviceable for work.  Ideally this would be one of the major US
manufacturers
>or a Nissan. I say this thinking about the ease of future repairs.

Just wondering....
Would a horse or team of horses and a farm wagon be a feasible alternative
to a gas-guzzling,
emissions spewing, always-breaking-down, old Murrican truck, ?
I'm thinking that most trucks that are still serviceable may be of the era
of computerised
this-and-that, and are not as conducive to DIY servicing as the older
vehicles .
whereas a horse or team of horses can do anything a truck can do, allbeit
slower, but the horses
are certainly more reliable and pleasant to live with.

> The other is a used PC.  Ideally this would come from someone who has been
> putting off an upgrade that they have been thinking about.

Perhaps there are people like me who have a number of doorstops (older PCs)
which have good parts(like hard drives, RAM, modems, CD-ROMs, video cards)
which could be used with newer CPUs & motherboards to build a serviceable
computer ?  (ie I'm sure that there are hundreds of old 486's around which
I'm sure that people would be willing to donate but would a 486 be too
limiting ? Whereas good parts salvaged from a bunch of old 486's + the
purchase of a used, inexpensive (but top quality) motherboard & Pentium
class CPU ,say 166 -266 MHz would yield a computer that should be capable of
performing any of the tasks that people on this List are currently doing
with their computers.

Of course, what would be necessary is someone to volunteer to assemble these
donated parts to make the "new system".
Heck, I suspect that the generous people on this list could donate enough
parts to make half a dozen or more computers for the villagers.

Failing that, perhaps we could each look around our homes and find a disused
item that we could sell in the local classifieds or a garage sale and then
donate the proceeds of that sale to the Canelo Project for the purposes of
acquiring the tools, truck, computer etc. ?

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Robert W. Tom
Kanata, Ontario, Canada



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