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How Can I Donate Old Hardware to Developers?

Posted by Cliff on from the forlorn-hardware-seeks-good-home dept.

olddoc asks: "I have a computer I'd like to get rid of. It is still pretty useful for a developer, being a fairly powerful dual Athlon MP box, but there is no Microsoft OS on it so most charities in the area don't want it. I live in Eastern Pennsylvania, USA and I'm sure there are dozens of people who are developing GPL or BSD licensed software, who would be happy to get their hands on it. If my old computer is used to help develop free software, I'll get all warm and fuzzy inside. If I get a tax deduction for it so much the better. Does anyone know how to give a worthy project a hardware gift?"

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  1. LUG's by runswithd6s · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Find the email address to a local LUG listserv and let them know the stats of the machine and that it's free!

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  2. Doesn't the East Coast have FreeGeek Yet? by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Or is it only an Oregon Phenomenon? http://www.freegeek.org/, for anybody in the Portland Metro

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