TCS - Refurbishing Computers

Refurbishing Computers

by Don Singleton
Tulsa Computer Society
From the January 2000 issue of the I/O Port Newsletter

Refurbishing Computers did not meet on November 6 because of the Microsoft Extreme event. The November 27 meeting was spent checking out hard drives we had recently received. December 4 Gary Ludwig, Johnnie Isaacs, Donna Smith, Ron (sorry did not get your last name Ron) and I spent the day hooking the five 486 level machines we plan to send to Belieze into a Local Area Network, because the Belizean government has said that if the Belieze Bible and Trade School has 5 networked 486 level machines, they will provide them with a free connection to the Internet, and we think that the students at the belieze Bible and Trade School should be able to make very good use of the wealth of information available on the Net. A truck is leaving for Belieze on December 16, so this was the last possible day to get the machines checked out, but we were successful.

The fourth (and last) Saturday of December is December 25, and the first Saturday of January is January 1, and we suspect people will have other plans for both days, so the next meeting of the Refurbishing Computers project will be on January 22 (and then on January 29).

We did get some good news that I wanted to pass on to everyone. The Tulsa Computer Society's Refurbishing Computers project was one of nine User Group projects to win the coveted second annual Jerry Awards for User Group Community Service Projects which were announced at the Annual User Group Summit meeting at Fall Comdex 1999. These awards are named for APCUG founder Jerry Schneider whose commitment to encouraging and facilitating user group involvement in the community has led to numerous outstanding outreach programs. Many APCUG groups are involved in community service projects of all sizes and scope. The purpose of the Jerry Awards is to recognize and reward these projects and to encourage new and expanded involvement. These projects exemplify how the mottoes of "user helping users" and "user groups helping user groups" have evolved into "user groups helping the community."

Over 20 groups submitted their projects this year. Through the generosity of charter sponsors Oracle Corporation, Microsoft, and Adobe Systems and new sponsor MGI we were able to select 9 projects to receive a 1999 Jerry Award. These groups will receive an award certificate along with a check for $500 to be used to further their worthy projects.

For information about all the winners see http://www.apcug.org/community_service/99jerries.htm and for the TCS submission see http://www.apcug.org/community_service/99jerries.htm#tulsa.



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