They have classes for Kindergarten thru 12th grade. They have the computer all set up and are installing a modem to get onto the Internet. They will be teaching the children how to use the internet, do research on the internet and they will be using lessons that are on-line (such as thru U. S. News). The computer will be used for all grade levels as they only have 2 computers at this time for their lab. The photos are Kimberly Bad Bear who is a 2nd grader, and Michael Iron Cloud, a 4th grader.

October 31 had very few ghosts or goblins (one t-shirt had Frankenstein's monster on it, and another said "I don't do costumes") but James Kirkpatrick, Winston Roach, Gary Ludwig, and Brian and Sandy Miller helped us get a lot of good work done. James sorted out our cables so rather than all being mixed up in one big box power cables are in one box, another box has various ribbon cables, in separate compartments, etc, and Winston checked out all of our video cards except for mono cards. We worked on cleaning off the hard drive of one of five computers donated by the CPA firm Hogan & Slovacek, which Brian wants us to configure for delivery to a Missionary the Bethesda Boys Ranch sponsors in Jamaica.

November 7 Winston Roach, Andrew Robert Blackmore-Squires, Gary Ludwig, and I got a lot accomplished. We checked out the other four machines donated the previous week by the CPA firm Hogan & Slovacek, and we received, but did not have time to check out, several donations from Infusion Specialists.

Of the Hogan & Slovacek machines, one was a Compaq which had had its hard drive formatted, and we discovered we could not just install regular MS-DOS software on it and get it to boot up, so we will have to wait until next time to see if Andrew can bring us some Compaq software. All three of the other machines were 33mhz 486 machines, with 20mb of memory, and what appeared to be 440mb hard drives, however on two of the three machines, we discovered they were really 1.2 gig hard drives, but the bios just would not support HDs that large. We swapped one of the potential 1.2 gig HDs for a much smaller HD, and swapped 16mb for 4mb from another machine, so we were left with a 33mhz machine with 8mb of memory, a very good system for Windows 3.1, and we configured it that way for donation to the Centre for Addiction and Social Treatment in Curacao, NA (an island north of Venezuela), and we put the extra memory in the first machine from Hogan & Slovacek, which we are configuring for delivery to a Missionary the Bethesda Boys Ranch sponsors in Jamaica.

We do not have worthy non-profit organizations identified yet for the other machines, so if anyone knows of one, please have them contact me. We cannot donate machines to individuals, regardless of how needy, but we can provide them to churches, schools, non-profit organizations, etc. We ask that the organization give us a description of how they will be used, and if at all possible, provide us with photos of the equipment being used, like the Pine Ridge Christian Academy in South Dakota did so that we can publish them in a future issue of the I/O port, in hopes that will encourage other businesses to donate their old computers to our project.

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