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If you have some goofy thing to try let me know. I have an old computer that I would like to find something to do with that could be started then just left running with no monitor/keyboard/mouse. I have a home network to access it, maybe I'll just use it for storage(the small amount it has)
The computer is basically made from all the computer scraps I found in the trash.
-PII 333 MHz, 192 MB RAM
-It can connect to the Internet through two Ethernet cards, or two dialup cards,
-it has a very basic graphics card
-I could get it a sound card
-HDD's{
2 * 6 gig
1 * 4 gig
1 * 3.5 gig
}
-floppy drive- multiple CD ROM drives
This computer handles very well for something this old. It's VERY lucky to still be ticking. It's had a hard life.
They dont make them like they use to
I have a OLD !!! 386 my wife uses for book keeping and Invoices but no internet ablility" Please Post back to let us know if we helped "
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"Throw the rest in the garbage." Uhhh, no.. dont do that.
I had a P1 MMX 200MHz running as a file server with a SATA controller card and a 200GB hard drive, since then it has been replaced with a 1.1GHz Celeron and now also has a TV tuner so I can hook up my old VCR and the PS2 to it. Its used for backups, as a file server and now a minor entertainment rig. You could even get a remote desktop connection working for it and get it to work as a juke box.
Mattwizz3 : )
Sempron 2600+ @ 2.2GHz
1Gb DDR400
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
200GB SATA
2X 80Gb IDE
256Mb MSI 6800 Ultra
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That computer is good enough to run Win 98, 98SE, or ME quite well, and any one of those will fit on any one of those drives with lots of room to spare. For that matter XP would run on it but would not be as fast as those other op systems, and could be installed on the 6 gb with lots of room to spare.
To use it without a keyboard is simple enough once it has been set up - you just set the bios so that the system does not halt if the keyboard is missing.
Similarily, a mouse doesn't need to be connected once Windows has been set up the way you want it - you can do everything or nearly everything in Windows with a keyboard for that matter, but most people don't know all the keys or key combos to use.
You would have to have a video card or onboard video on most systems, but it would be no problem if the monitor is not connected to it when you don't need it, but you can get used monitors cheap so I don't know why you would want to do that.
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If you have never heard of FOLDING here is a link to it, I myself hope to have a couple of old beaters up and working on this project after the first of the year....
Keep the old stuff running
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What happened to my post? I was the one who suggested to remove the HD and throw the rest in the garbage. Why would the moderator remove it?
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don2006
The webmaster is also the owner of this site. He must have thought he had a good reason.
Telling someone to throw something in the garbage didn't help.
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That can't be the reason. Was I supposed to suggest recycling instead or to use it as a door stop? Strange.
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"What happened to my post? I was the one who suggested to remove the HD and throw the rest in the garbage. Why would the moderator remove it?"
I didn't see your post don2006 but maybe someone thought that your candor was offensive and it was removed.
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I don't see how it could have been offensive in any way at all. The original poster said he built it from scraps he found in the trash. My suggestion was to remove the HD and return the rest back to the trash. I understand that it is a "Personal Computer" but it can't be that perosnal.
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Its a post... Its gone... no biggie.
Sempron 2600+ @ 2.2GHz
1Gb DDR400
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
200GB SATA
2X 80Gb IDE
256Mb MSI 6800 Ultra
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It just happened a second time when I suggested that someone get rid of Norton. I don't see why I can't say that. I don't like Norton and I don't have to like it.
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I don't mean to divert the thread but I don't like Norton either.
Let's see if my post gets removed :)
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acstewart,
You say that you have a home network. I say you turn that old box into a hardened firewall by putting SmoothWall on it. You can get it here: http://www.smoothwall.org/
SmoothWall has a free version that works fantastically on home and small business networks. The best part is that the resources required are so low that even that old system you have can run it.
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How about this!
98SE rocks! Put in on your network. Put it in your garage (all cars guys have a garage..... and there's the plug ;) ) and put your USB camera under the peak of the roof looking over your yard. With remote desktop sharing anytime you can see your driveway. I have heard of some surveilence freeware for dual cams........
Just a thought. ..... Chipmunk cam? Bird cam?treveena
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BeOS or Zeta or try Haiku-OS.
Might try SkyOS or even menuet32.
I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.
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