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- From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
- Subject: Asking for hand-outs...
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 20:31:09 GMT
- Organization: Just me.
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- The school which my church supports got two Tandy 6000's for free. (Some
- company, I don't know which, must've got a tax write-off or something...)
- Unfortunately, the Mac-oid who tried to get them running was pretty clueless.
- He went off to South Carolina, and the whereabouts of the 8-inch system disks
- and manuals are unknown... I don't even know if he ever had them.
-
- Starting from the present situation (Have: hardware. Haven't: doc's/disks),
- and working upon the same principle (donations rather than cash purchases),
- I'd like to get these things up and running (Xenix) for the school kids.
-
- I'll be probing into the original source of these donated machines, but I'm
- not counting on finding much. What I'll need is:
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- Xenix (2.1? I've heard that 3.2 needs hardware mod's...)
- I'll need the boot floppy and whatever else to start completely
- from scratch... the 15Mb hard drives don't seem to be formatted.
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- ANY DEVELOPMENT STUFF - The idea is to teach the kids programming. C, BASIC,
- Pascal... Heck, I'd even take Fortran or <ugh> assembly! (Of course,
- 'C' would be ideal... I don't want to teach them a 'toy' language.)
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- DOCUMENTATION - Manuals for Xenix, hardware manuals, *anything*.
-
- Since this school (Badger State Christian School) is a ministry of Faith
- Baptist Church, all donations are tax deductible. I'd be more than happy to
- pay the shipping costs and even throw in something extra for your trouble.
-
- Please contact me at the below e-mail address (or at +1 414 221 3403) if
- you're interested in helping out some completely computer-illiterate kids.
-
- Rick Miller <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us> Ricxjo Muelisto
- Occupation: Husband, Father, WEPCo. WAN Mgr., Discus Sys0p, and Linux fan
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