I had been trying to find a home for this Pentium III PC for a long time and by a happy coincidence I found it one of the best homes - i.e. a centre for autistic children.
I bought this old PC at a give away price of RM90 from a used PC shop in Amcorp Mall some years ago and enhanced it to 512MB of RAM, 80GB hard drive and replaced the ropey CD ROM drive with a working used unit.
It came with Windows XP but I soon got rid of that and installed Linux on it.
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On Sunday 18th of January afternoon I took a friend who was in pain to Assunta Hospital and waited for about four hours until he was admitted.
It was evening and I felt like having some of those delicious curry puffs at Raju's Restaurant, so went there and by chance met the director of an autistic home whom I had not met for several years.
Raju's did not have any curry puffs that Sunday but we got chatting about computers, etc. and luckily I had my netbook in my car, so I showed the director DouDou Linux for children and invited him to come by by home to view this Pentium III PC.
He came by that evening with one of their PCs on which they were having problems opening Word documents.
I fired up the PC which runs PicarOS Diego Linux especially developed for children in Spain and let him try it out and the director said that the games and educational programs were ideal for autistic children.
The screen cap below is old. Since I captured it, I have customised PicarOS Diego further to be in English as much as possible.
He then took it away and installed it in the centre the next day and informed me that the children loved it though the teaching staff found it a bit intimidating, since it is not Windows which they are familiar with.
Anyway, I am happy that I finally found this PC a very good home for it to serve out the remainder of its useful life benefiting autistic children.
