Linked by Richard White on Tue 15th Mar 2005 11:21 UTC
My basement is like a mortuary with the remains of computers all lying in state, waiting and hoping for a new lease on life. But what is there to do with the K6s, the Celerons, and Pentiums of the past. It seems nothing short of a miracle would bring these ghosts back to life.
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Quote Brostenen : So why keep old hardware alive??? //
I guess you didn't read properly ?
Quote Article : I thought of providing computers for, shall we say, the economically disadvantaged. These would be plain-Jane, vanilla boxes, simple to use and easy to maintain, with sufficient power for surfing, email reading, authoring documents and spreadsheets, and listening to the occasional tune. //
I like to use old hardware as firewalls too - I have an ancient 166 with 16meg of ram that happily runs smoothwall.