Re: [MLUG] computers for Ecuadorian family

[Rick Buford <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Well, if you're coming through Missouri (shipping would be a nightmare), 
and are interested, I recently bought several older machines only 1 or 2 
that I actually have a use for. I would certainly be willing to part 
with 2 or 3 of them pretty cheaply to a good home. The oldest is either 
a PIII450 or a Celeron 500 (both tower chassis) with 256MB and 10-13G 
drives. They are all old Dell machines.

The only drawback is that I do not have monitors for them.

Mike Miller wrote:
> My wife is from Quito, Ecuador, and her (far from wealthy) parents, 
> siblings and their kids still live there.  We would like to buy 
> computers for them and I'm trying to come up with a good way to do 
> this such that:
>
> (1) The computers will be respectable, current machines,
> (2) they won't cost too much money, and
> (3) shipping costs will be kept to a minimum.
>
> I will be going to Ecuador one of these days and I think I'll bring 
> parts with me and assemble the machines there (probably 4 or 5 of 
> them).  I'm hoping that I can buy main boards, drives and such here, 
> but buy the cases and monitors in Quito.  I think I can fit the parts 
> into a carry-on bag and thereby avoid any S/H costs.
>
> Any thoughts on that plan?
>
> The next issue is software.  I would love for them to run Linux or a 
> dual boot system.  Everything has to be in Spanish.  Do all Linux OSs 
> allow for Spanish language installations?  Same for Windows XP?
>
> If I could set them up with Linux only, they might not be happy.  Any 
> views on this?  I think some of them would be fine -- email, web, word 
> processing -- but the users who want to get into downloading photos 
> from a digital camera or doing video editing might have some trouble.  
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks in advance for any thoughts you can share.  I'm not sure when 
> I'll actually do this, maybe this summer, but I wanted to start 
> planning now.
>
> Best,
>
> Mike


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