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Flashlight Enthusiast
Please post how to get a free computer. Free as in no hidden charges, no obligation, no signing up for phone/email solicitation, etc. Just plain free. Or practically free but nothing hidden or comes-back-to-haunt-you.
I read in another post someone doesn't have a computer at home. Well, maybe that's by choice but just in case anybody's needing a pc for home or just wanting a better pc...
I've built a few pretty awesome PC's lately and upgraded one of my own by getting parts from my town dump. It's not like I'm stepping over the rotting lettuce with the seagulls either. There's a special box trailer labeled for computer/monitor/tv recycling. Just last week I picked up an awesome Dell P780 monitor, which is a nice Trinitron 17-inch flat CRT monitor with better resolution capability and refresh rate than a monitor I had been using.
I also got lots more RAM, a zip drive, and another IDE hard drive for an old Pentium3 box that I wanted to turn into a Linux server. And I loaded the old RedHat 9 onto it. (Gotta find a new favorite free Linux) Works great now!
I put together an old Mac I found there for a friend who mentioned she wanted a computer to write letters and maybe do some web surfing. Built her one with decent RAM and a decent screen like the one above. It ain't something to run a corporate website on, but it's perfect for her use plan.
For $25 which technically isn't free but close I bought my dad's old ("former", not really old) Compaq Presario EN from his work when they did an office-wide upgrade. Came with a 15" LCD monitor too. That now belongs to my 3 little boys.
Anybody got other places/ideas to get a free computer?
I read in another post someone doesn't have a computer at home. Well, maybe that's by choice but just in case anybody's needing a pc for home or just wanting a better pc...
I've built a few pretty awesome PC's lately and upgraded one of my own by getting parts from my town dump. It's not like I'm stepping over the rotting lettuce with the seagulls either. There's a special box trailer labeled for computer/monitor/tv recycling. Just last week I picked up an awesome Dell P780 monitor, which is a nice Trinitron 17-inch flat CRT monitor with better resolution capability and refresh rate than a monitor I had been using.
I also got lots more RAM, a zip drive, and another IDE hard drive for an old Pentium3 box that I wanted to turn into a Linux server. And I loaded the old RedHat 9 onto it. (Gotta find a new favorite free Linux) Works great now!
I put together an old Mac I found there for a friend who mentioned she wanted a computer to write letters and maybe do some web surfing. Built her one with decent RAM and a decent screen like the one above. It ain't something to run a corporate website on, but it's perfect for her use plan.
For $25 which technically isn't free but close I bought my dad's old ("former", not really old) Compaq Presario EN from his work when they did an office-wide upgrade. Came with a 15" LCD monitor too. That now belongs to my 3 little boys.
Anybody got other places/ideas to get a free computer?