Yeah, don't laugh!

10 Years ago at college and then university I used to use macs all the time - they seemed the defacto in academic institutes. Anyway, about a week ago I got all nostalgic and yearned for those times, and thought about 'dicking around' with an old school mac. A quick eBay purchase later and I'm the proud owner of a (very very cheap but usable) powermac 9500/120. It's running OS 9.1 which is apparently all it will run upto, and has two 2GB drives. It also has office 2001 and Photoshop 6 installed.

Ok, now apart from finding the space around my workstation to set it up, what can I use it for? Apparently it won't see networked PC's but should connect to the internet via ethernet, which is handy as my other desktops all go through a router/network switch.

Any ideas anyone?

you can use it just to be old-school.

or run benchmarks on it... haha... i don't know what all ps6 can do, but you should see how it compares to a 2ghz g5 :-P

It needs no help being old school; I don't know why, but Mac keyboards just feel 'nicer' than PC ones! I've got a logitech one on my main PC, but my Mac one just feels nicer!

Anyway, I've installed MacPerl on it so I can use it as my development machine (I'm learning Perl). And Microsoft Entourage is weird. Love those clicky hard drives...

You could install NetBSD on it and learn about unix.Just like OS X.

The Mac can see PC networked drives just fine. I'm not entirely sure what the software is called (there are numerous packages). All I can say is that it is done with little pain.

Your specific Mac can make a fine simple web-serving machine. You'd need an X-able computer to be fast enough to run things like SSS langs or SQL. HTML is just cake on PPC601-604 chip

How about you play the best game I have ever played (one of the)? Escape Velociy (not Override or Nova -- which are great but not as good). http://www.ambrosiasw.com/news/

Mac's are superb!

I can't find that networking software - if anyone knows of it do let me know - and thank you all for your suggestions! However, I won't be delving into any other OS'es at the moment as I'm still getting used to using Linux, so with OS9.1 as well I have enough on my plate.

Using the Mac certainly makes me appreciate how nice my PC is though!