Computer Recycling "Most Wanted" List

If you live or work in the Kitchener/Waterloo area and your organization is looking to dispose of any of the following equipment, please contact me (Charles) at The Working Centre's Computer Recycling Project: http://www.theworkingcentre.org/cr/. Normally we charge to take in any of this equipment because of the recycling costs associated with this equipment, but we're a bit tight on these items and would be happy to wave the fee we'd normally charge.

Laser Printers
* HP 1100, 1100A Laser Printers (& proprietary parallel cords)
* HP 2300 Laser Printers
* HP 4200 Laser Printers

Please note the condition of each item (whether it's working or not -- we still might accept non-working models of these printers for parts).

We're also looking for working notebook power supplies for the following models of notebooks:
* Thinkpad A31

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Canon BJ-30 Bubble Jet Printer

A few days ago we received a Canon BJ-30 Bubble jet printer as part of a group of printer donations. We tested this tiny printer which measures about 1 foot wide by 1/2 foot long when the lid is closed. Amazingly the donated printer still contained ink. Sadly it seems that Canon has discontinued making any drivers or information for Windows available on their web site. We tested the printer under Ubuntu Linux version 10.04 and it printed a test page flawlessly (we even got a full tank of ink). I called our favourite ink re-filler and found that the do indeed still carry the cartridges for this portable printer. We looked around for information about the BJ-30 and discovered that this tiny printer is 720dpi x 360 dpi, although we suspect that number is a software-interpolation number that depends on a Windows driver. As anyone can see from our screen shot above the printer seems to print just fine. The biggest downside to the printer we felt was the lack of a USB port, and the...

Mandriva Media Machine

The other day we built a multimedia computer for the shop . I chose Mandriva Linux because I wanted to provide volunteers with a different experience from the typical Ubuntu Linux they're used to. And it was an experience for me. I've worked quite a bit with Red Hat/Fedora, SuSE, Debian, and Ubuntu, but not so much with Mandriva. I actually found myself a bit lost when it came to package management. I was unfamiliar with urpmi. So I did a bit of research and found a few interesting links. See the story I wrote here: http://www.charlesmccolm.com/content/helpful-mandriva-linux-links

Retro games at Computer Recycling

From Hardware The past couple of months have brought a lot of changes to The Working Centre's Computer Recycling project. One of those changes is the addition of a working Vic 20 (we also have a Commodore 64) and an Atari 800. The Vic 20 is on display and anyone is welcome to drop in and play one of the games we have on cartridge for it. Currently we have the following games: * Donkey Kong * Pac Man * Spills N' Fills * Pole Position * Home Babysitter * MasterType * Garden Wars We do have a Commodore 1541 disk drive for the Vic 20 and a tape cassette drive, but at the moment we're collecting software on cartridge. The Atari 800 is not set up yet. We're looking for a small 19" or less television to hook the Atari to.

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