Tuesday, July 28, 2009

New computer repair facility approved

The application for new facilities to repair second-hand Personal Computers (PCs) has been approved by Port Stephens Council. Work has commenced, with the ground preparation already underway (shown below).


We have a number of qualified volunteers who specialise in PC maintenance, and due to their sterling efforts we have outgrown the present location where maintenance works are carried out.


At the moment, PCs are repaired in a very noisy workshop area which is obviously not the preferred environment to concentrate on delicate repairs. So as a result, a decision was taken by the Board of Directors to develop a stand-alone facility, specifically dedicated to the repair of PCs.

Businesses, organisations or individuals may be in the process of upgrading office equipment; or they may have items such as old PCs, Fax machines or Photocopiers gathering dust in a store room.

Everyone is encouraged to donate their obsolete equipment for the purpose of extending its lifespan.

Donated hardware is serviced by trained technicians and is channelled back into the community via our onsite store.

For peace of mind; great care is taken to ensure that the hard-drive of every recycled PC is cleared of sensitive data. We guarantee privacy via the procedural installation of a ‘hard-drive eraser’; which permanently removes private files and data.

Our donor's support of this initiative provides a much-needed alternative option for members of the community, unable to afford costly retail prices.

So if you have a PC with an operating system no earlier than Windows 98...we'd be interested in hearing from you.

Don't throw it out... We'll take it!

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