[rtpnet-tact] very good article on computer reuse

[Bob Sams]

Very Good article.

Bob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Judy Hallman" <hallman at email.unc.edu>
To: "Triangle Area Centers for Technology (TACT)" <rtpnet-tact at rtpnet.org>;
"InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers at lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc: "Jim Shamp" <jshamp at heraldsun.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 8:46 AM
Subject: [rtpnet-tact] very good article on computer reuse


> To RTPnet TACT list and Triangle InterNetWorkers, with copy to Jim Shamp:
>
> See http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-433913.html
>
> Here are a couple of quotes:
>
>  You can donate your used, but useful, computer gear to TEAMing for
>  TECHnology, a computer recycling program operated from the Morrisville
>  headquarters of Triangle United Way since 1996.
>
> ...
>
>  The process helped keep more than $500,000 worth of useful computer gear
>  in use in 2003 alone, helping about 200 families and 179 agencies,
>  according to Bowers-Roghelia.
>
> There's decription of programs that use the computers, ending with:
>
>  And donating unused computers for refurbishing and redistribution by
>  TEAMing for TECHnology can help make those literacy, GED and job skills
>  classes possible, noted Bowers-Roghelia.
>
> Judy Hallman (hallman at rtpnet.org, http://www.rtpnet.org/hallman)
> Executive Director, RTPnet, NC (http://www.RTPnet.org/)
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> rtpnet-tact mailing list
> rtpnet-tact at rtpnet.org
> http://www.rtpnet.org/mailman/listinfo/rtpnet-tact
>