User:Brainchild1

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How To Get A Free Computer!

First step is to email a school, you probably want to email a school you are going to, or went to. In my case I emailed my old elementary school, since I knew they had spare computers. Send them an Email saying something like this: hi my name is _ I use/currently are going to school. I'm interested in computers, and I'm interested in (how computers work, programming, anything with computers should work.) I was wondering if you had any spare computer you would be willing to let go to a student for educational purposes. Just something around that, you want to make it seem like you know what your talking about, that your interested in computers, one thing schools like is that its for educational purposes, and you want to seem professional Work the School Now in my case I had to go through a little in order to get the computer. You have to really push for it without being to pushy. Email the secretary first or just the general school email, they'll probably forward you to the computer tech guy or someone like that, this is the person you really want to impress. I was told the school had no spare computers that our old Mac lab was gone an no computers remained. After a little sweet talk I got him to say they had an old PC, but we'd had to work out a deal that he couldn't give it away for free. After replying I stated that, I had an old PC and that i really wanted to mess around with an old Mac, and I thanked him for his time, and left it at that. He then emailed my back and say he had an old E mac he'd give away to me for free because he took the ram out. That was fine by me I have some extra RAM lying around so I took it. So I just picked it up and I had a free computer, it wasn't new but it was free. 3Problems Some problems you may run into could be: School not replying tech guy isn't too cool No spare computers Computer doesn't work (This happened to me besides not having any RAM the screen also doesn't turn on. So I'm had to scarp it for parts if I cant figure it out, But hey it was free so whatever.) In these cases you can try another school, just keep emailing them, going in person and talking to them, and just keep trying, most schools will try and help out past students, so try a school you didn't get into trouble a lot in, and the teachers liked you. Hope all goes well.Brainchild1 (talk) 01:17, 18 September 2009 (UTC) post by Brainchild1.
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