Suggestions for an Old P-233

[NoreagaCNN]

OK I have an Old P-1 233 lying around and was wondering what to do with it, i've been hearing about a Linux box or an MP3 Player for my car. Well i have 2 questions, what's a Linux Box and how do I make an MP3 Player?

Thanks,
Nore

 

[Vegito]

I sold my old mb + cpu w/ 32mb ram @ e8ay and got 150 for it.. enough to buy me a third CUSL2 or CUSL2-C mb...

 

[The Stigenator]

goto mp3car.com for mp3's

for linux = www.redhat.com

i suggest mp3 player, if u dont know how to work with linux its no use. but u can learn it,

x windows is fun.

 

[NoreagaCNN]

Anybody else got any other suggestions?

Peace,
Nore

 

[hubbs]

Do what I do w/my old p233.....Put it in a corner and forget about it

 

[Workin']

Teach yourself networking with it and your new computer.

Teach yourself Linux.

Give it to someone less fortunate. I already have 8 computers, so when I got yet another P-166 instead of adding it to my collection I overclocked it to 188 MHz, bumped the RAM to 64MB, put in a 13GB hard drive, and gave it to my mom for Christmas. It's BLAZING fast compared to her old P60/8MB/2GB machine.

A 233 isn't that bad, any charity would probably be happy to have it, and it is certainly useable for anything but playing the latest games.

 

[CrimsonWolf]

I keep my old P-200 box around for emergency stuff, like in case I have to type a book report or something, and also for SETI@home crunching.

 

[Zenmervolt]

I suggest you mail the system to me, I promise to love it and give it a nice surge protector to eat from, and keep its fans clean, and its HDD defragmented, and -- wait its a computer not a puppy. Seriously though, you could find a neighborhood kid and give it to him if he's interested in computers. It would also be a good machine on which to learn Linux. Or you could still ship it to me because God only know when IBM will ship the ThinkPad I ordered on 10 July, and I'm sick and tired of using the computers in the campus labs.

Aaron Meyer