On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
We have no current plans. These machines are simply sitting in my office waiting for a plan.
I should add that I'm extremely busy and my own judgment of how I ought to most wisely spend my time would suggest that me working very much on creating 12 crappy computers to donate to a charity would not be effective; I can do a lot more good working on big picture stuff.
Beyond a certain point, old hardware becomes a problem for an organization. I suggest you just donate them on to charity (or a school perhaps) immediately.
You could probably easily buy the equivalent hardware new for the work you could do im the time you've already spent posting this on meta and discussing it here.
Let it go.