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Wood PCs For A Nepalese School

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the small-for-suitcases dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "The BBC runs a story about a Nepalese teacher who collects old computer parts to set up the first computer-equipped school in Nepal. They assemble the parts into wooden boxes! If you have old parts left, maybe you can donate something, too."

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  1. I made a wooden pc once. by MrFredBloggs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wooden keyboard, wooden ram... looked nice. The only problem was....it wooden work!

  2. Wooden boxes by morie · · Score: 5, Funny
    They assemble the parts into wooden boxes! If you have old parts left, maybe you can donate something, too."

    I don't. However, I may have some wooden boxes.

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  3. good thing they're using old parts by superflex · · Score: 2, Funny
    if they were using new stuff, their cases would catch on fire.

    "Wow, those P-IV's are really smokin!"

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  4. Coffin Computing by Ukab+the+Great · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you die while surfing the net in Nepal, you can be buried in your own case. How cool is that?

  5. Spare parts eh? by dbolger · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you have old parts left, maybe you can donate something, too."
    What, you mean old tables and chairs? ;)

  6. Thankfully someone was thinking over at the BBC by fobbman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Luckily no links were put up in the BBC article to the schools web server. Otherwise the /. effect could have literally burnt the server up.

  7. Glue and PCB's don't mix.. by saqmaster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Talking about building your own computers..

    I remember reading an article in a computer magazine back in about 1981.. Around this time the Acorn Atom was the computer to have - and fortunately for the ubergeek of the 80's, you were able to purchase this wonderful machine in a Kit form (basically a pile of components, case and a pcb)..

    Whilst sifting through the readers letters section I had found, quite amusingly, that someone had complained to the BBC (who I believe where manufacturing these computers at the time) that his newly built Acorn Atom kit did not work -

    Turns out he'd glued the components onto the PCB using epoxy.

    Maybe they forgot the instructions in the box? I have no idea, but I truly cannot imagine anyone even contemplating to build a computer from a kit if they had no clue whatsoever what the general electronics involvement would have been..

    Next Month: "Build your own raid cabinet using balsa wood!"

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  8. Donation... by Asic+Eng · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, I got a few cases I could spare. :)

  9. How 'bout stone cases? by blang · · Score: 3, Funny

    That would rock.

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  10. How many times can you look away? by Adam+Jenkins · · Score: 3, Funny

    Friends,
    Just one 256k SIMM can give a family of 12 poor Nepalese children the gift of warez; brilliant games like Platoon, Congo Bongo and Tapper. How can we ever expect such pagan misguided souls to become as technologically advanced as us if they can't work out how to defeat Donkey Kong and save the chick? Never mind about food, once we get them hooked on these games they won't be so hungry any more. Send your x86 PC bits today!