Hellafax Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 Hey all, I will shortly come into a fair amount of older Pentium I computers, between 90 and 166Mhz. All these boxes have ram, Video and Network. What I'm looking for, is things I can do with these old machines, other than trash them. I know I can turn them into a firewall/router for home networks using FloppyFW @ http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/. This in itself is a good idea, and would greatly extend the use of the systems. Anyone else have any good ideas?? Cheers :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aem4162 Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 See if any charities can use them or forward them to people who could use them. :D:D:D:D anita Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 I would do as you suggested, Hellafax, and turn some of them into a firewall/router. I would use some of them as servers too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sailgreg Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 You could use 1 as a webserver and and another to handle MySQL, send one to me, and give the rest to people who dont have a computer :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twist Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 use them as bowling pins and bowl with a frozen turkey. drop them off high buildings. install windows 1 on them the possibilities are endless... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s0rce Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 Beowulf Super-Computer Cluster With Linux!!!! Or Run a server/give to charity... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zivan56 Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 Yea, try making a cluster and share seti@home workload amoung them. Also run some other things that require lots of cpu power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baphomet_irl Veteran Posted July 12, 2002 Veteran Share Posted July 12, 2002 Play Wing Commander 1 and 2 at almost the right speed!!!!! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E3L Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 "I't's All About the Pentiums" - Wierd Al :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellafax Posted July 12, 2002 Author Share Posted July 12, 2002 Thanks for the suggestions ppl :) I will probably turn them into firewalls, and resell them cheap (not to sound toooooo Capitalistic, but I've got a business to run :) ) I may be able to find some peeps who are looking for a SQL server....Students hehe. Anyone know of any other network stuff I can do w/o or with just a tiny hard drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liar2 Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 You can give one to me. At least a hard drive.... I'm trying to get my POS p1 166 running just for the hell of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tophat Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 Ever hear of the Beowulf Project? Yes, I know it sounds like a Tom Clancy novel, but it's not. It's distributed computing, really. Basically, you install beowulf on a bunch of computers, and network them all together. Then, your network of computers acts as one large computer. I haven't personally played with it much, but I've heard and seen some pretty neat stuff done with it. (E.g. a bunch of p-100's beowulf'd together, and running bryce - a 3D rendering prog.) So your mileage may vary. http://www.beowulf.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youm0nt Veteran Posted July 13, 2002 Veteran Share Posted July 13, 2002 use it as a jukebox,slave,firewall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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