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

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And then the program really got going with a major grant in 2007 from California Emerging Technology Fund. All of our RCI-refurbished PCs come with either a Windows XP or Windows 7 operating system, and all come with Office 2007. In the first couple of years we distributed around 100 PCs per month. to scale up RCI in California.