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April 15, 2002 !
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Important announcement of NEW Services ( from Sunday March, 24, 2002 on ) :
( 1 )
The entire web site can now be downloaded and distributed to anyone for "off-line" viewing. If there is at least one Internet access point available the contents of this web site can be downloaded once and then given to dozens or hundreds of people on disk to view the web site "off-line". This might also save connection costs depending on the country you are in or the ISP you are working with.
Download the web site contents now (up-to-date until: April 9, 2002) We update it weekly !
Unzip after downloading and start with the file:
index.html in
your browser !
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If your Internet access point is running on a PC with at least Windows 95 installed, then download and install the following remote access software on your machine. We are then able to help you via remote access wherever in the world you are on this machine.
[ The installation requires however a little bit advanced knowledge about the Internet, TCP/IP etc. ]
vnc-3.3.3r9_x86_win32.zip
vnc-latest_doc.zip
tr.98.1.pdf
or go to: www.uk.research.att.com./vnc/download.html the creators of VNC !
( These pages are permanently under development ) E-mail us at: tbsc-consult@altavista.it
A good starting point is to begin with the page: Resources on this site (see link in the table above) ...
TBSC CONSULTING is the non-commercial division of a software development house / business consultancy for small/medium sized enterprises and individual computer users.
For philantropic reasons we will offer our own
products, our "know how" and our professional experience absolutely FREE
(with NO strings attached) over the Internet to individuals, small businesses,
educational institutions (esp. those with a practical vocational focus)
in "developing" countries and in "disadvantaged"
regions. This is not restricted to the Pacific Rim Region.
The value of an old floppy disk might not even be one cent - the educational value of the old DOS based word processor, spreadsheet or database application on it can make the difference to a whole class room somewhere in the middle of nowhere!
Worth thinking about it !
To be honest: We can't hear
anymore the permanent lamenting by politicians etc. about the "digital
divide" and what can be done to overcome it.
Let's actually do something
about it !
Going through the archives of companies, schools etc. we always find
heaps of software (often older versions but licensed), sometimes new and
in the original packaging. The hardware technology used has made them obsolete
- but there are tens of thousands of schools out there in the world who
would be more than happy to have even an older copy of a spreadsheet software
like Lotus 1-2-3 or a database package like dBASE III + etc.
How does it work in practice
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MOST IMPORTANT !
PLEASE make the web site known world-wide
! YES, you too - it doesn't cost you anything to distribute our URL to
friends, colleagues and institutions you know. And if you are a school
principal then please have a look in the cupboards what "old stuff" there
is which your school doesn't use anyway !
Putting a GUESTBOOK
on this site is also a way to go. So people can say what they are looking
for, describe their equipment etc. - and others can offer the software,
hardware etc. (please give details of the goods and services, also how
to contact you).
Our Guestbook can be found here:
PLEASE send us also an e-mail with your request / offer in case the Guest Book facility doesn't work !
From the Guest Book we will then take the necessary information and put it onto the following pages:
Software offered
...
Hardware offered
...
Other Services
offered ...
Software wanted ...
Hardware wanted
...
Other Services
wanted ...
This will allow in most cases that the prospective partners can get in touch with each other without the need that we are facilitating.
Depending on the specific demands we put in our part and research the Internet and/or our software archives for additional information regarding the subject / item (which we then put on one of our resources pages). To give you an example: if there is a lot of demand for database products, and esp. XBase related products, then we add also our "know-how" / experience to this web site for everyone who needs it. See our resource page:
where we have added some of our tools we have used and/or are still
using.
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Getting software by mail from the UK to a remote school in MALAWI or to KIRIBATI in the Pacific Ocean is a small problem, not to mention the postage esp. for the manuals.
But it can be done by e-mail. The software can be transferred as attachment, the necessary documentation can be scanned and the license can be transferred this way to the new owner. Probably no one will send the manuals by "snail" mail, but for most packages there is sufficient material on the net, which can be downloaded. And we will do our part too to help with resources.
It all comes a little bit down to facilitating these things - it should not be too hard ....
It can be done !
We are also calling on the BIG players in the computer software industry:
BORLAND, MICROSOFT, COMPUTER ASSOCIATES, IBM / LOTUS and all the others.
We are interested to facilitate the distribution of older software packages which are NO longer sold by you on the markets and DON'T contribute anymore to your margins. If your company is serious about getting future customers in parts of the world which are disadvantaged today then please give us the chance to distribute legal copies of your older products via this site.
This would really contribute to overcome the so-called "digital divide" !
[ If your company is willing to ship older software packages incl. the manuals to those who need them somewhere - eg. in the middle of Africa - that's appreciated. On the other hand: mostly it would be sufficient to have one copy on our web site which can be downloaded by those who request it. Or you can keep them on your web site, and give those people access to download the software which you consider worthy enough from going through our guestbook and pages (just use a password). ]
These were some of the basic ideas ...
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