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vnunet: Old PCs Get a New Lease of Life in Developing World

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"Almost 99 per cent of children in Africa leave school without having touched or seen a computer in the classroom.

"At the same time, we are dumping two million working Pentium PCs in landfill sites in the UK every year, and environmental directives mean we are paying for this wasteful privilege..."

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