By Chris Lewis | Nov. 26
The City of Mount Pearl recently made a generous donation of equipment.
After upgrading some of its computer system, the City was left with an extra 85 desktop computers and 118 hard drives, said councillor Bill Antle.
After mulling over for a couple of weeks the best way to deal with them, and considering a list of potential beneficiaries for a donation, Antle said, staff decided the best place for it would be the province’s schools.
“Before we donate these computers, they’re all cleared of all their information,” he noted. “There is no possibility that any council or City information would get leaked.”
Antle said the donations has a couple of benefits. It means the school system has more equipment to utilize, so that more students will have access to decent machines to use at school. It also means there will be less computers bound for the landfill this year.
“I think our staff did a great job of making sure these computers will be used again, and it’s also going to be saving us some money,” Antle said.
