<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a class="snap_shots" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/plakboek/1886242223/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2145/1886242223_3969d7ef90_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</a> <br> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> </span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a class="snap_shots" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/plakboek/1886242223/">School computer museum
</a> </span><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">by Craig Blair<br>Reposted here by permission.<br><a class="snap_shots" href="http://www.flickr.com/people/plakboek/"> </a></span></div></div>Apologies for any duplicate posts you might get.
<br><br>I have been reading reports that <a class="snap_shots" href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/breaking-news/dell-says-computer-company-will-become-carbon-neutral-next-year/2007/09/27/1190486442643.html">DELL computers
</a>, <a class="snap_shots" href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/dell-to-go-carbonneutral-by-2008/2007/09/27/1190486451827.html">Hewlett Packard</a>, and <a class="snap_shots" href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/carbon-neutrality-by-end-of-2007.html">
Google </a>will all aim to become greenhouse neutral by the end of this year. I reckon that this would be a fantastic 2008 target for all teaching subject associations (and then for schools). After
conducting an audit of their impact on their environment, they could
make some initial gains by purchasing carbon credit offsets. Later they
can explore ways of reducing their impact on the environment by
reducing, reusing or recycling.<br><br>Speaking of recycling, this
splendid photograph of a school computer museum was shared with me by Craig Blair (North Lake Senior
Campus, QLD Australia).<br><br>His school collection of computer hardware spans over two
decades and much of it is still in use or made usable with new, free operating systems. This is more than just an effort to catalog and
classify junk, it is a great historical sounding board for his
students. It raises some good questions about the pandemic of <i>afluenza </i>sweeping our word, the power of computer recycling and the value of digital archives. No hardware left behind. Bravo Craig. :-)<br><br>He indicates that his collection has the following items:
<br><ul><li><b>Apple Blueberry G3 </b>- student find. Replaced HD and works well - for in class use</li><li><b>MacPlus </b>- I found - works a treat... just reinstalling the OS at the moment - for in class use</li><li><b>
Apple G3 </b>- Staff find. not a lot except the 1.5 GB of RAM - haven't got much further with this yet.</li><li><b>Pentium III 900 MHz - s</b>tudent find. put in 20 Gig harddrive, installed Ubuntu and gave to senior for surfing the net... very happy customer
</li><li><b>Pentium IV 1.2GHz </b>-
I found. dual monitor card. 2 hardrives, 2 monitors (17 inch). Works
just fine... sitting at my house as my only Desktop PC in the house...
(very rarely used...)</li><li><b>Pentium P166 </b>- student find - cd
burner, windows 98. very quick machine... given to a student from lower
socio-economic area who now uses it for recording music.... etc... very
very happy customer</li><li><b>Pentium III </b>- I found - 800 MHz -
came with DVD player, CD burner. Reinstalled Ubuntu and use this
machine for burning Ubuntu onto students external harddrives</li><li><b>Commodore 64 - </b>donated by a prac student</li><li><b>XT </b>- something I have had for awhile</li><li><b>Microbee - </b>something I have had for awhile
</li></ul><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead