Where in Tulsa can old computers find new homes? -- A.D., Bartlesville.

The Coalition of Tulsa Computer Refurbishing Projects -- helpingtulsa.org/coalition.htm -- is made up of four organizations that take in older computers to refurbish for worthy causes. The coalition is made up of the following.

Tulsa Computer Society Refurbishing Computers Project. In east-central Tulsa, Don Singleton, society president, accepts donations of computers at his residence -- 3311 S. 127th East Avenue. Call him first at 622-3417. Society volunteers refurbish these for schools, churches, libraries and nonprofits, including low-income housing projects. Most contributions are "low-end Pentiums, 486s and not enough Pentium 2s."

Bethesda Adult Life Training Center (Bethesda Boys Ranch) -- helpingtulsa.org/where/bethesda.htm -- Tulsa, OK (918) 827-6409 -- takes 486s and later models only. Refurbishing work is done by the Tulsa Computer Society. Call Jim Erwin at 637-8631 to see when he or someone else will be at the ranch location. To deliver a computer there from central Tulsa, go south on U.S. 75 to 171st Street and turn right, go two miles west to 49th West Avenue (no street sign but watch for the "RC Field" sign attached to the fence) and turn left (south) and drive one-third of a mile. Just past your first opportunity to turn right, find an opportunity to turn left and turn left. Go to the end of the road, past a house on the right and a building on the left, to a road that turns off to the right -- it passes the building where refurbishing takes place.

Cornerstone Assistance Network -- www.htweb.org/tulsacan/ -- 1120 N. Peoria Ave., Tulsa, (call 583-3670 for an appointment) is one of four locations where you can donate used computers to help churches and ministries start computer labs to teach kids and adults basic computer skills. Its trainers oversee and instruct needy individuals in hardware and software skills. Contributors get receipts for claiming charitable contributions deductions on their income tax returns. Cornerstone and the Society collect, refurbish and distribute computers to nonprofits, schools, ministries or qualifying individuals.

PC Power -- www.tulsapcpower.org/ or call (918) 493-8052 for an appointment -- is a nonprofit corpora tion -- 501(c)(3) pending -- established to collect and refurbish used computers, making them available to indigent children, at-risk children and disabled adults in northeast Oklahoma. Its first community-wide computer drop-off was Jan. 31 at The Farm Shopping Center when 300 computers were donated with software, peripherals and spare parts. The need for donations is ongoing and the group accepts all used computers -- even those not working. Parts are taken from nonfunctional computers to rebuild computers and those not used are given to a local company that recycles electronics in an environmentally friendly manner. It needs donated software for Windows 98, 2000 or XP.

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