63 Computers

​A blessing and a curse

By Brian Bondy
 
If you were a fan of Monk, then you might recognize that phrase as something he seemed to say on every show. Last week, someone gave me 63 computers. 52 desktops and 11 laptops. I am actually thrilled, as I like working on computers.

That said, none of the computers had memory, and only 15 had hard drives. I am starting with those that have hard drives. I had a couple of sticks of memory that would work well enough for me to test them, and install Windows 11. I also have a monitor and 2 keyboards to test with, so I could sort of do two at a time, by sharing the monitor.

I’ll need screens, keyboards, mice for all of them. I ordered some memory, but I’ll need more, and most of them do not have WiFi. So that’s what I’m asking your help with. If you have any USB keyboards, mice, or any monitors that you aren’t needing, please consider me. I’ll also need some desktop and laptop DDR4 memory, if you happen to have any of that laying around.

So far I’ve found 6 computers out of the 63 not working, so those will go to recycling. Another 25 or so are older and I may recycle them as well, since there are so many. Another 8 or 10 are good enough to keep, but they don’t have memory or hard drives, so that gets more expensive to re-deploy them, we’ll see.

If you can help me out, I’d appreciate it. I’d like to give these away as they are decent computers with some more life in them. Let me know what you have. I’m at bdbondy@gmail.com, or you can text me at 5059013300.

Thank you!
Brian

Note from Carol:   Brian has been refurbishing computers and giving them away for sixteen years.   Although he stopped keeping track he's given away over 500 computers almost all in Abiquiu and surrounding communities - giving old a new life and keeping them out of the dump.  Computers are always free except if he replaces parts and then there is a nominal fee.  His time is all donated.   All equipment deemed too old is taken to electronic recycling.​