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- From: kibirev@csa.bu.edu (oleg kibirev)
- Subject: Change of address
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- Originator: kibirev@csa
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.204852.23777@ctr.columbia.edu>
- Sender: news@ctr.columbia.edu (The Daily Lose)
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:48:52 GMT
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- A few days ago LOGOS BTI has posted an article calling for charitable donation
- of used computers for Russian schools. Their site (lbte@caticsuf.csufresno.edu)
- goes down for a while soon. Please send all questions and replies to me
- (kibirev@CSA.BU.EDU) and I'll forward them to LOGOS by non-electronic way.
-
- Sorry for this inconvinience,
- Oleg Kibirev
-
- Here is the original article, if you didn't get it:
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- \___________________ FOR RUSSIA ______________________/
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- Did you know that your old PC can get a second life? LOGOS Biblical Training
- International is now accepting contributions from everyone who cares about
- technical education in countries of CIS. We take your 8088 or slow AT that
- hardly have any use in US anymore and donate it to russian christian or general
- education school.
-
- Many have heard that computer education in former Soviet Union is awful. As a
- russian exchange student, I can confirm it. In fact, most high school
- programming is taught on what we call "paper computers" (grader executing the
- program in their head)! Others are using toys similar to Commodore. Even
- university students are forced to learn FORTRAN and COBOL on hopelessly obsolete
- Hewlett Packard and IBM dinosaurs (i.e. pirated clones).
-
- Since high schools and universities are still exclusively state-(un)supported,
- situation is not going to improve soon. Broke government is not going to make a
- difference. Will you?
-
- We hope that the mission of LOGOS can help building technical bases for
- spiritual ressuraction of Russia. All contributions to LOGOS are fully
- tax-deductable.
-
- LOGOS accepts computers, printers, motherboards, hard drives, memory chips etc.
- We are primarily interested in IBM series (8MHz XT or better) and MACs. All
- equipment should be functional and in reasonably good shape. Shipment fee will
- be paied by us. If you have a fast PC (like 386) and want to get SOME
- compensation for your contribution, you are welcomed to contact us. However, we
- can't pay full market price.
-
- Also, please forward this article to sites that may be interested in our
- suggestion: computer leasing companies, universities with large CS department
- etc.
- --
- NOTE: LOGOS BTI is a nonprofit organization, therefore this article shouldn't
- be considered to be commercial use of Internet.
-
- Also, sorry if you read this outside US. ucbvax.berkeley.edu seams to ignore
- Distribution: line in mail header.
- ______________________________________________________________________________
- / LOGOS Biblical Training International \
- Call us for details: (209)252-2655 (contact Victor Reimer)
- _____________________________________________________________________________
- 2025 N.Gateway Blvd, #104, Fresno CA 93727
- \______________________________________________________________________________/
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- Some more notes: Victor Reimer is in Russia now for ~3 weaks. Please
-