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Friday, December 10, 2010
Good HeliOS news: 75 donated laptops
Left to right: Ken Starks, HeliOS founder; Michael Zagger, divisional vice president, cardiovascular sales, St. Jude Medical; Kernetta Owens; and Michael T. Rousseau, group president, St. Jude Medical. Photo provided by HeliOS Project.
We wrote about Ken Starks, the head of Austin’s HeliOS Project, which gives rebuilt computers to kids who need them most, back in late July.
Now comes the good news that Austin’s St. Jude Medical is donating 75 laptops to HeliOS just as the organization was planning to shut down for a month due to lack of machines to give away. 45 Sony Vaio VGN-TX770P and 30 Dell D610 laptops are being donated and the group will install Linux. The first donated Vaio was given to Connely High School sophomore Kernetta Owens this week.
HeliOS is also holding a computer and component drive 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday (Dec. 11) at ITech Electronics, 8312 Burnet Road. The group needs Pentium 4+ or AMD-equivalent coputers and the following components:
- DVD/CD writable drives (either internal or USB-powered)
- SATA or IDE 80+ gig hard drives
- DDR and DDR2 memory
- 4+ GIG thumb drives
- LCD monitors
- Small laser printers
- ATI or Nvidia graphics cards
- Repairable laptops
You can also call HeliOS directly at 689-6556 or e-mail to schedule a pickup.
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