Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Gates Donates $15M to Preserve Computing History

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-so-evil dept.

Dan-DAFC writes "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is donating the sum of $15 million to the Computer History Museum in California, according to the BBC. The money is the biggest single gift in the museum's $125 million fund-raising campaign, which is still $50 million short of its target. The funds raised will be used to add more exhibits and educational programs."

1 of 291 comments (clear)

  1. School Donations by lappy512 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The Bill Gates foundation is pretty nice. Even though I support Linux, they have kept our school computers very nice. For example, we recieve upgrades almost every two years, and we just upgraded almost a week ago to 2.8 Celeron D's in our whole school. When our network was only 10BaseT, they helped us upgrade to 100BaseT, speeding login times. Of course, there are the disadvantages, with MSIE only, and Word, but there's always PortableFirefox and PortableOpenOffice!

    --
    Student Research and Development