In a sunny Bay Area classroom, twenty sixth graders are working at computers. They are making websites—”MySpace” pages for figures from American History. One student is researching Frederick Douglass’s five greatest accomplishments. Another is showing a classmate how to search for pictures of Susan B. Anthony. They’re all learning how to use Google Sites, helping each other along the way. Earlier this week, this class learned how to add numbers in a spreadsheet. Last week, they learned how to make music on a simple synthesizer. People often assume that getting technology into classrooms is expensive, but this lab cost absolutely nothing.
The problem? An underfunded school needed computers for the classroom. Budget? $0. Staff involved? Just one: Robert Litt, a sixth-grade teacher.
Robert teaches at ASCEND, a small arts K-8 school in the Alameda County School District. He’s a fan of technology and believes that it’s an important part of K-12 education. Yet ASCEND had no computer lab and no computers in classrooms. So in 2007, Robert acquired 18 donated computers. But these computers were less help than he’d anticipated. The operating systems were slow. Some computers had viruses or malware. Students became frustrated.
Most of the computers’ problems could be fixed by wiping the disks and reinstalling the operating system—but buying new software for every donated computer would be prohibitively expensive. So Robert began to research more affordable options. An acquaintance at the Alameda County Computer Recyclers suggested he use a free operating system, such as GNU/Linux. Having never ventured into the world of open-source software, Robert scoured the internet for help. He came upon a local Linux user’s group, a friendly group of people dedicated to helping people get started with free software.
With the help of his local LUG, he got Linux up and running on his 18 donated machines. Suddenly, they were fast. They were clean. They worked well in the classroom. Robert was invigorated, as were his students. His principal saw how excited they all were, and decided to give Robert four hours of teaching leave per week to give him time to find more computers for a full lab for ASCEND. And so Robert became a “teacher on special assignment,” as he puts it.
Finding computers was less difficult than he originally anticipated. Most families and businesses have an old computer (or ten) sitting in storage. Robert began to call businesses and ask for donations of equipment they’d otherwise be sending for recycling. People were generally very receptive. Most people would rather their used computers do good than rot in a landfill or get shredded; they just don’t usually know how to get computers to where they are needed. “Underfunded schools are starving in the midst of plenty,” Robert explains. “Discarded computers are our nation’s most wasted educational resource.”
In fact, donations were easy enough to find that Robert began turning down equipment that had less than 512 megabytes of RAM or was made before 2002. He wouldn’t turn down computers people said were “broken,” however. “Many computers people say are broken are actually experiencing software problems,” he found. When he’d install Linux, many of the supposedly broken computers would work just fine.
Six months later, Robert had his first full ASCEND lab, filled with donated computers running free, open-source software. But he wasn’t done. As he continued to make connections with people, donations kept pouring in. Soon, he got in touch with a local non-profit called Partimus (http://partimus.org/), which is dedicated to “providing computers and Free Software system administration support” to schools in the Bay Area. Partimus helped Robert set up an install server, so that he could install Linux on multiple machines at once.
This year to date, he has acquired over 70 computers for ASCEND.
Faced with inadequate educational technology, few teachers would take it upon themselves to create an entire computer lab with no funding. It’s a daunting task, no doubt. But, Robert argues, it’s within every teacher’s capabilities. He came into the project with absolutely no computer repair or tinkering background. “My background is being a 6th grade teacher,” he says. “I am self-taught 100%.” He used free resources available online and troubleshot as he went along.
Robert advocates open-source software even for schools that aren’t lacking technology. US government reports say the digital divide is shrinking, at least in schools—97% of teachers have at least a single computer in the classroom. Yet that’s not the whole story. “The digital divide is growing in a hidden statistic,” Robert says, “the actual teaching of technology in a meaningful way.” He shows students how to do math on spreadsheets, how to make simple websites, how to put together slide presentations, all on free software. These are the computer skills that, students tell him, they are later expected simply to know. And with the prevalence of recycled computers, there’s no need for even 3% of classrooms to be without computers.
Robert will be moving to a new school this coming Fall, where he hopes to continue teaching technology meaningfully. And he calls on other teachers to do the same: in a digital world, teachers are responsibile for making students “better digital citizens.”
Check out some video of Robert speaking at Maker Faire below.
As a teacher at an independent Primary (Elementary) school we too have zero money. So yes Linux really was the only option for us too.
We’ve got 18 3-year-old Asus laptops all running Ubuntu and we teach using open source all the way. They laptops were identical so it was fairly easy to get them going…
I can’t begin to imagine the difficulties getting all those mis-matching machine up and running. Well done, I’m so inspired by this I might just start putting out requests for old machines when we need to refresh ours.
May I also recommend looking at Edubuntu, it is specifically designed for Educational establishments. Details can be found at http://www.edubuntu.org/
Absolutely inspiring.
Awesome! I helped implement a 1:1 computing program at a school in Singapore, and while we didn’t face funding issues like Robert, I know there are countless other stumbling block with utilising technology in the classroom. Absolutely fantastic what this guy did; he’s the sort of teacher you wish could rise faster in union ranks because of quality of ideas, not time spent teaching.
When I worked at a small college we were faced with the same thing, but had IBM Matching Grants so were able to get a nice server and ran LTSP. This let us use any computer that would boot from network, or use a boot disk to do it and have a desktop that a student could access from any of the lab workstations. We installed all the languages so our foreign students could read and type in thier native language and font. Worth checking into.
For even fewer memory requirements, better use xubuntu or lubuntu.
I congratulate Robert Litt for setting up a computer lab running
free/libre software, but saving money is the least of the reasons why
this is the right thing to do. Free software, free as in freedom that
is, is the only way that computer users can have freedom. Schools
should not teach dependence, so free software is the only kind they
should ever teach. (See http://www.gnu.org/education/edu-schools.html.)
The system he installed is a variant of the GNU system which I started
in 1984. (See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html.) Linux is
one component of the system; it filled the last gap in GNU in 1992
when it became free software. The GNU/Linux system, basically GNU
but with Linux as well, was the first entirely free operating system
available for a PC.
Please give the system’s principal developers equal mention
by calling the system GNU/Linux.
See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html and
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html.
Thanks, Richard! I updated the post with a link to gnu.org.
We’re members and big supporters of the Free Software Foundation.
As a long time user of Linux I applaud you sir!
Good job! i am proud of you.
Great work… sir !
Also to Ubuntu people.
As both a linux user and an educator, my hat goes off to you sir!!! THANK YOU for setting an example for other educators in tight-budget schools!
how inspiring, people have done similar things, people made something called the raspberry pi, a 700 megahertz computer with 256 megs of ram running ubuntu, and it works great, look up the raspberry pi and its competitors on google, they set the standard for what the price of a computer should be, and they used ubuntu, and this guy proves ubuntu is one of the best of os’s, and that inspiration and great thinking can come from anywhere, i was inspired
I hope he was moving by choice and for good reason, not because his position was in jeopardy after all that he had done.
What a amazing story! Great to read it! very enthusiastic!
absolutely inspiring. one of the great swims against the stream.
absolutely inspiring. one of the great swims against the stream. being a teacher,i m very proud .
Great job, but I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
Groan. Stallman.
Other than that very inspiring!
An other alternative to doing in yourself and Edubuntu is Debian Edu:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/
Sorry GNU ppl… But how much GNU is there in a modern distro really? In fact.. Less than 8 percent. So if the point is to give all contributions equal credit the system as of today would have been called xorg/gnome/java/mozilla/kde/GNU/other/Linux. So pls stop whining. http://pedrocr.pt/text/how-much-gnu-in-gnu-linux.html
Shouldn’t we be doing less bickering over who is responsible for the free software revolution and more to spread it? Leave credit where credit is due to bibliographies and history lessons :) There are so many people I respect in this ecosystem and Stallman and Torvalds, while important, are only two. Clearly Robert Litt now has a place on that list, and bravo to him!
Great work
We are looking for friends and folks in the NYC area, to do similar things
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Constructing-Learning-Through-Technology/134810829884534
This is our project in Manila Philippines.
More power
Jon Mannion
CLT
I encourage him for involving free technology in his classes.
Cool, I did something like this in NYC with LTSP. It’s fairly easy to find donated servers. There are many disadvantages of using Linux and thin clients, but having near free labs that run pretty fast is great! I detailed my experiences on my blog at http://davidmburke.com/2012/02/26/computer-lab-on-the-cheap/
Great job! So inspiring.
We of MaD – Making a Difference congratulate you Robert Litt for such a lasting difference across the globe.
As brighter as the smiles you have put on the hearts and faces of the children, so brighter shall your life be all the days of your life in all endeavours.
Young people inspiring young people through education.
MaD – Making a Difference (www.facebook.com/madglobal)
Being in pakistan its no problem to worry about the OS rather its windows or osx for mac, piracy ftw lol
Btw respect for the teacher because what he did is indeed respectful
A similar story from Greece (2010):
http://osarena.net/osarena-2/projects/ergastiri-pliroforikis-me-linux-se-dimoti.html
Truly awe inspiring. Great teacher. Thanks Ubuntu
from an Ubuntu user
Its really inspiring. Here in India, i have seen people using pirated version of licensed software but not free alternatives. i myself had switched over to Ubuntu from Windows 4 years ago and from then there was no looking back. now i have even removed the Windows partition and completely dependent on Ubuntu.
it will be really great if this kind of story is known to every computer user and student community.
Wonderful! Excellent! splendid! marvelous! Keep up the good work! thanks a lot for your sharing this information.
do you help with people starting org.
great job well done.
linux can do alot of things with pretty old computers. including server activities.
I don’t get why people use bloated crap like Ubuntu on old computers and even Raspberry Pis (!). If you don’t have the need for a dumbed-down interface, there are WAY better options. Recently, I’ve been getting quite fond of #! – it boots to the desktop in some five seconds in a VM with a single 2 GHz core and 1 GByte of RAM. I wouldn’t even think about installing any flavor of Ubuntu on this kind of hardware…
All your linux nerds are living in a dream world.
Did you know that just anyone can type in “Richard M. Stallman”? I just point that out, and the fact that there are 2 posts from RMS above this one, that probably aren’t authentic. Will the real RMS…please stand up, or better yet, will the fake RMS’ please stand down…
To people who say ‘use this Linux’ or I would not use Ubuntu. This guy uses what he wants and is accessible for him. It works as we can all see so why not say well done for using it instead of trying to make it seem like he’s doing something wrong.
There are a myriad of choices in Linux and anyone can find out about anyone of them online or from a local user group. He chose what suited him best.
Well done Teach.
For old machines one can try Sugar with Trisquel.
http://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-sugar
They work like charm, as Ubuntu maybe at times too heavy for them. Recently converted about 18 donated computers some really old, in a school for children with special needs in Mumbai, India. Sugar was originally developed for OLPC project, but now can be used with almost any PC. But a great job done, congrats.
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I commend this guy for just doing it, rather than letting the idea of no money get him down. I will be spreading the link to people that I know, and I know a few teachers, everyone else should do the same.
I actually think that it’s a great idea to use Ubuntu on these machines – it runs pretty well on reasonably old hardware, and for a GNU/Linux newby it’s quite easy to set up and use, especially on disparate hardware. I myself started my journey on Ubuntu, in the workplace as an enterprise software developer no less. Now I use Arch, but others in the organisation that I worked for use CentOS, Linux Mint and Ubuntu, depending on preference and situation. All unsupported by the in-house tech crew (who wouldn’t even give me a second monitor because I was using Ubuntu instead of his precious Windows).
I would go one further and suggest that perhaps some VM software with a less user-friendly distro be installed that the kids can play with to learn the REAL benefits of free and open software, if they want to (and lets face it, how many kids would love to be given the opportunity to be able to muck around and potentially destroy something with no consequences, and learn in the process).
The choice of distribution is irrelevant, that he’s using linux (free/open) is not.
You deserve all respect, very inspiring :)
An awesome effort. I guess we could start off something like that in Indian villages also.
Its Great
Salutes to the great teacher Robert Litt who accidentally found GNU/Linux system is great for education. As Mr. Richard Mathew Stallman stated, money is the least of the reasons why
this solution is so great. But he also agrees money is one of the reason, and yes it is (personally I like to call it as good budget control). While proprietary software advocates hiding of knowledge, Free software is practicing sharing of knowledge. GNU philosophy is ideal for everyone using computers, but it is more ideal in educational institutions, because our little kids learn the idea of sharing from their early childhood. Once again a BIG salute to Robert Litt and BIG BIG salute to RMS who seeded the thought of FREEDOM in technology.
We, the people, thank you!
Oh man, you made my day, definitely!
There’s also discussion about this project at Slashdot, you may want to check it out too.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/08/14/0324220/creating-a-school-computer-lab-with-ubuntu-for-0
Quit bickering about who gets credit for what, and what he should be doing instead of what he did! This is a real teacher solving a real problem and getting kids tech savvy! At leat they won’t turn out to be Widiots!
Wonderful story. I’m an Open Source enthusiast and I’ll spread this story around so people can see that profit is a consequence of labor not a goal itself.
Congratulations, Mr. Robert Litt. The world needs more people like you.
I salute you Mr. Robert Litt for setting the example of leadership. Some people complain all the time and never contribute ideas or solutions. No way should we (society) have a “Laid down and die” mentality. “Where there is a will, there is a way” and you had the will to help students get and enjoy their education. The way was free software. These are the things that make America great. We have the ability to bounce back when presented with challenges.
Fair play Mr. Robert Litt, you just showed how resourceful people need to be, if they want to achieve something and that there a community out there who is willing to help out of the goodness of their heart.
Also check out Kiddix, which is an OS designed for kids built on Linux (GNU/Linux). It has parental controls, applications, and interfaces designed for kids. It typically costs a small amount to purchase, but they do donate licenses sometimes, especially for cash strapped school computer labs. I should know, because I created Kiddix :-)
I’ve been giving away my old computers and ones given to me or found at garage sales cheap on the ‘”freecycle” web site. Here people can ask for donations of stuff other people would otherwise throw away. You can also offer your old stuff to be donated on the site. I clean up the computers and install Linux (usually Ubuntu or Mint).
As far as the “GNU/Linux” comments go, it’s true that when Linus first booted his operating system he filled in the missing pieces by using programs from the GNU system. The GNU system at the time was a nearly complete operating system that was only missing a kernel and drivers. Linux provided the missing pieces. Today there are other third party ‘free as in speech’ software components included in most ‘Linux’ distributions such as the xorg GUI, java, Python, Perl, tcktkl, etc. So the GNU system while still an important part of the ‘Linux’ OS (it can’t be built without the GCC compiler which is part of GNU), is no longer the largest piece. Still the mention of GNU implies the ‘spirit’ of the free (as in speech) software movement so including it in the name DOES carry meaning.
well done
Stallman’s comments were off-mark – this isn’t / shouldn’t be a forum for personal agendas…”Please give the system’s principal developers equal mention by calling the system GNU/Linux.”….LOLZ….that’s like saying please start saying “telephone” instead of phone because Mr. Bell it’s principal developer used that term in 1873.
Congrats to the school / teacher for finding a solution to their economic dilemma – spit on Stallman for trying to ride their thunder.
Do you know you can get refurbished computers for free all across Canada by contacting Computers for Schools in your province? And this apply for schools and non-profit organizations.
Program info and links: http://bit.ly/N06Lc0
it’s easy to recognize how vital these projects are, but on the other hand children are so annoying.
if someone needs a volunteer to do the actual work in NYC, i would do it on the condition that no interaction with students be required unless they’re fetching coffee or something
Many PC hardware problems identified by the kernel developers are given a patch. The kernel usually prefers direct access to hardware, and thus does not require nasty kludges like BIOS overlays. So these buggy systems sometimes can be recovered by a Linux based OS (there is even a kernel patch to map around faulty areas of damaged RAM).
Ubuntu is a sometimes friendlier repackaged Debian distro, and most distro packagers contribute their work back to the community.
As a developer, I started to port my code base years ago… after buying a worse version of a $5000 SDK from Microsoft for the third time.
Great Job! Very inspiring story. I congratulate you for your dedication and patience.
A couple of words on your choice of OS — for low end machine it will be good to use a light weight window manager to save on resource. xubuntu is one derivative of ubuntu aimed to that end. I personally find edubuntu a great distribution for young students.
I see in comment section some mention about pirated / wrongfully obtained OS copy being used in old machines. My advice to all such persons – please do better things.
Linux is better than those pirated version. It gives you freedom to modify and distribute. You can see source code of all the program that you run. Some of the student will definately get curious and learn good programming. Actually, one should shift to Linux for the freedom, even if you can afford non-free programs. For educational institute it is sheer foolishness to continue being slave of non-free program.
Most Linux versions now come ready with pre-installed office suits, that is another plus in terms of productivity. Check the software repository in ubuntu and then decide, if you still want to continue with Windows or Mac.
We run a lab with Ubuntu on 33 computers at San Francisco State University. We don’t run it for cost reasons. In fact, the computers are all newly acquired via a pre-allocated budget for lab computers. These computers run Windows 7 for most courses, but when we teach Free and Open Source-related courses, we take over the lab via LTSP and run the whole place on Ubuntu!
This link is about Ghana but has some stuff of interest for anybody setting up a computer lab:
http://peacecorpswiki.org/ICT_in_Ghana
Great article. I started PatchX three years ago and fixed up over 80 computers with six of them being in a computer class that I have been teaching Scratch. He is so right in the video about computers and equipment are out there and need to be in homes and classes instead of in land fields. Seeing this let me know that I am not alone in my thinking when I started PatchX
In our district we use a version of Ubuntu called Ubermix. http://www.ubermix.org/
We mainly use it for Netbooks but have done desktops also.
It nice because students and inexperienced teachers can easily reset the just the settings or the entire OS and user files (adds 30 seconds to boot). Fits on a 2gb USB key that can be customized to fit your needs. Unattended install from USB key in under 5 minutes. Best part is you can give a copy to a student to bring home and have the exact OS with programs and all they have at school.
This was a really good read, and very inspiring. The potential for using open source in schools is immense, and you managing to make an IT lab for free is truly awesome. Thanks for sharing!
Stallman does what he does, because it is necessary to protect the free Linux stuff from those who make billions from proprietary software. If he didn’t take actions Linux would not exist. So, please don’t be so nasty to him.
Awesome work! What a legend!!
Brilliant! Recycling like this is a very plausible solution to reduce waste, particularly in the economic crisis the whole world is going through and a very ingenious idea to contribute to the knowledge and originality of kids and adults alike
thanx for sharing this golden resource
I cannot take this guy seriously. He should have used thin clients. My recommendation is that GNU/Linux terminal servers and thin clients should be the default solution unless there is a demonstrated need for more local power.
A word regarding what others have, in the comments above, referred to as ‘LTSP’, ‘terminal servers and thin clients’, etc.: Computers can boot and run operating systems stored on themselves, or, alternatively, from a ‘master server’ that resides elsewhere on a network. Using a ‘master server’ (or ‘terminal server’) is much less computing resource intensive than using a locally booted operating system. Hence, ‘thin clients’, or, much less powerful local machines, can be used, which lowers costs.
As an example, I’ve worked on terminal server/thin client projects in which the client computers were 200 MHz machines — which is on the order of 5 to 10 times less powerful than a typical desktop machine today. Workers were served ordinary desktops environments with office software, and this setup was indistinguishable from full powered machines with local operating systems and software. The servers that served the desktops to thin clients resided in San Francisco and New York, and each server location served its respective half of the US.
As a benchmark, I used to have a 100 Mhz machine that booted locally installed MS Windows, and was able to run MS Office software. Most current smart phones are much more powerful than this. By using a terminal-server setup, hardware even older than the 2002 cut-off used above is feasible.
Another note: solid state hardware, such as electronics, tend to last a long time. I have a web server that was purchased in 1998, is a 500 Mhz machine with 384 MB of RAM, that is working just fine. That now 12 year old machine has run 24 hours a day for the last 7 years or so. It would function perfectly as a very powerful thin client.
this is the true power of Linux: empowering people – you are a hero sir! :)
I’d like to add that I don’t fully agree with the comment preceding my last: terminal-servers are useful, but they do add a minor level of administrative complexity. For a small lab with not enough money to buy a new server, a non terminal-server setup is fine.
Hats off…. _M_
So what is gonna happen when they go to college or into the working world where Windows and Microsoft Office are the defacto standards?
Hats off to RMS first. Without his foresight, none of this would have happened (presumably). He saw the need for Free Software as a way to get back to basics. I’ve used Free Software for 14 years now and it’s marvellous. Also, of course, hats off to Mr. Robert Litt for putting together the Lab!!! This is one of many stories about using Free Software to develop our most precious resource. Well done MRL (Mr. Robert Litt). To all you people out there who oppose what St. Ignutious does, shame on you.
Can I just recommend LUBUNTU (www.lubuntu.net) to anyone wanting to go this way.
ALL the clean reliability and software choices of Ubuntu, but less memory needs (owning the lovely lightweight LXDE desktop) : runs beautifully in 256Mbyte RAM or even at a push, 128Mbyte RAM. (That’s ten year old machines to you youngsters). I am happily running PCs here bought in 2003 which are breezing along with original hardware.
Linux truly is the solution for underfunded school districts. As long as education funding is determined by the income of the people in the surrounding neighborhood there will always be inequality. Kudos to the Linux community for bridging the gap. Ubuntu and Fedora (https://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/).
@adacosta:
LibreOffice and OpenOffice can read MS Office documents. These students will not need Microsoft and by then they’ll be able run an emulator of a virtual machine for anything they would really need for Winblows.
Robert is although great being a teacher, but he did more than what he had to do. He did something for the betterness of his youth so set up an example for al of us. Be happy healthy and live long Robert.
This is just amazing what one man can do.
Good on you!!!!!
This is very usefull activity. My compliments to this teacher!
P.S. Xubuntu is most stable desktop environment.
The class of operating systems is called Linux, the same way like Windows 95/98/NT/2000/etc is called just Windows.
So stop the holywar, and just accept that Linux is more used name than GNU/Linux.
OS is called Linux, kernel is Linux kernel. No confusions, no mistakes.
Well done … Take my hat off to you..
I’m a firm believer of open source and run linux myself….
its interesting for one of the comments above that the assumption is the defacto standard.
However
Linux is no different to Mac OS or Windows, its just a different OS.
From my experience windows makes your PC take control of you , Linux allows you to take back control of your PC… Not only that give these kids a real good start in life…
Well Done
Another option for those out there with ancient PC’s is to run a custom distro of puppy linux with a Microsoft compatible office suite. I have some research stations in my classroom that run this setup and they work well. Funding is not coming anytime soon so we must get creative. The real struggle for my school is that our network backbone is almost 2 decades old–pulling wire is cost prohibitive and wireless access points cannot carry enough concurrent users. Anyone have an idea? We are thinking about wimax way cheaper than stringing wire.
@adacosta: If the pupils only learn how to use this or that software product, they will not only experience problems when coming from linux to windows, but also when they come from one version of windows and ms-software to another or from MS to Apple or whatever, but still most computer classes are nothing more then “learning Word” + “learning Excel” + “learning PowerPoint”. That’s superfluous.
If the classes are not centered on specific programs and more on understanding the technology, the students will bs able to find their way on a windows computer with ease.
While linux is a very flexible platform, it encourages its users to become flexible too. Being dependent on this or that software, because you haven’t learned any other is a thing very uncommon with linux users.
Many, many years ago I took part in a local government scheme to recycle old 286’s for local charity use. The project was hampered by hardware issues – the machines had hardwired security dongles that prevented printing. I bypassed them by rewiring the ports. Every machine went out with a 20MB HDD and 1MB of RAM, a screen and KB. Mice had to be sourced by the new owner. All of the machines were capable of running Windows 3.1. Linux was still CLI back then. I still recycle computers – I’m not able to do it for free but I’m not paying over $100 for any hardware.
This guy Robert, is an inspiration.
Amazing, and what a great lesson for the students too — hopefully he involves them directly in this process he has created.
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