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TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative: You’ve Come A Long Way Baby

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At the time, we had a very limited selection of offers, comprised only of desktops and laptops, most of which had Pentium III processors (you get the idea). And then the program really got going with a major grant in 2007 from California Emerging Technology Fund. In the first couple of years we distributed around 100 PCs per month.