[aclug-L] Re: Things to do with older computers.

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If somebody comes up with a use for 300 200mb SCSI hard drives, by all means
let me know!

Maybe I could dismantle them all, and use the platters for some fun art
project.

-- Jonathan


On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 09:04:30AM -0500, David Carmichael wrote:
> 
> Due to Nate Bargmann thinking that my "Weather Channel" project was
> something that others would like to try I thought that I would list some of
> the things that I have seen and read about working older PC's getting used
> for: Most of these will run on a P-133 or faster.
> 
> 1: Home network DHCP hubs [Linux / Win]
> 
> 2: MP3 Jukeboxes [Linux / Mac / Win]
> 
> 3: Kitchen Cookbooks [Win]
> 
> 4: MAME game systems (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) http://www.mame.net/
> [DOS / Win]
>     (even at 133mhz some of the game ROM's require that the CPU is slowed
> down via software to run correctly!)
> 
> 5: Home security systems (multi web cam with web page up-loading so that you
> could check on your home away from home!)
> 
> None working PC's
> 
> 1: Fish Tanks [MAC's]
>     {speaking of such a project, does anybody have a non-working MAC
> keyboard and mouse they want to get rid of?}
> 
> 2: many different forms of ART where everything from chips made to look like
> bugs to motherboards used to create '3-ring' binders.
> 
> Do you have a use for an older PC not listed?
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