Benjamin Folk Jr. on 30 Oct 2007 20:28:11 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] free monitors (Sun and SGI)


The town watch folks took 3 of them for a video surveillance project and
friends grabbed the other 2.  It was sort of cool, but didn't rain on
Sunday.  

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 15:25 -0400, zuzu wrote:
> On 10/28/07, Benjamin Folk Jr. <ben.folk@comcast.net> wrote:
> > There are now 5 monitors out there.  I am also getting rid of a Sun
> > external SCSI CDROM unit (Model 411).
> 
> out in the rain and the cold?  also, the lead and other toxins in the
> CRT aren't really the best thing environmentally to be discarding in
> the general trash pickup.  (I've often wondered why garbage companies
> aren't more concerned/liable economically about receiving
> hazardous/polluting materials.)
> 
> also, for working monitors, I think that a club at UPenn and some
> other community centers (e.g. A-Space on Baltimore Ave.) will
> warehouse them and then distribute them to poor/needy people.  of
> course transport is an issue, but at least keep that in mind.
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