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

[Curtis Hawthorne <cghawthorne@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan,

How about making a high quality speaker system?

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~hsakr/hdspeakers/hdspeakers.htm

:-)

Curtis H.

--- Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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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