dunxd.com

Uru school still uses some reliable mechanical systems like this one. It even works when the electricity fails!

This computer was donated from North Tyneside college, and was in working order when it was sent to Tanzania. There are several others of the same model, but seven of them have stopped working due to leaky/flat CMOS batteries. I scavenged the memory out of the bust ones in order to boost those that work, which are now in use for school administration.

This is a slimline dumb terminal at Uru School.

The sticker shows that it came from Cumbria Computer Services.  I did work experience there when I was 16.  They had me spend most of the week cleaning coffee out of keyboards and folding the fan fold paper they had let accumulate behind their dot matrix computers.  This terminal probably dates from before then!

Again, not a computer, this time in desktop format.

This Apple Mac still switches on, but the operating system on the hard drive (below) appears to be corrupted. Perhaps this computer could be of use, although it isn’t compatible with other computers that the school has.

This is one of the computers that still works, and is perhaps of some use. It runs Windows 3.11. Here it is asking for a disk with the printer driver on it. There aren’t printer drivers for the schools printers, but we are working on it.

None of these “Leo” boxes has a hard drive, a floppy drive or a CD drive. They aren’t computers. No matter how rusty they are.

This is not a computer. It is a dumb terminal. Note there is no floppy drive. There is no way of installing any software, or getting any documents on or off this computer without a server based network.