Fw: Computers for East Timor

[Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@soum.co.jp>]

ML の主旨とは異なりますけれども。。。

IBM PS/2 8555 なるコンピュータをたくさん集めて東ティモールに送りたいそ
うで、しかし、

  * ほとんどのマシンで BIOS にすらアクセスできず（？）
  * HDD にも
  * マザーボード上のバッテリーの位置も分からず
  * いくつかのマシンは DOS のフロッピーでブートできたが HDD をフォーマッ
    トできず

こういうのって直せるものなのでしょうか？？？

上林

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Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@soum.co.jp>

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• Subject: Computers for East Timor
• From: John Mccarthy <jmcc@seton.wa.edu.au>
• To: port-i386@netbsd.org
• Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 09:52:33 +0800
• Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.1.20011108094416.00a50040@10.1.1.1>
• Delivered-To: port-i386@netbsd.org

We have collected quite a number of IBM PS/2 Type 8555 to send to East 
Timor to help the schools there teach computing. (You may remember that 
East Timor was devastated in 1999 when they voted to be independent from 
Indonesia - the country was systematically looted and anything of value 
which could not be carried away was destroyed)

These old computers have been donated and we are trying to get them 
working. We cannot get into the BIOS or the hard disk to load programs. We 
cannot even find a battery on the motherboard. We have got some to boot 
from a DOS floppy by disconnecting the HDD - but have found it impossible 
to format HDD.

We and the kids of East Timor will appreciate your help to solve this problem.

John McCarthy

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