What can I do with seven Pentium 166s?

[Winchester]

I was cleaning out my office at work and these were in my office just taking up room and my boss said I could have them as well as 2 monitors, old printers, and older computers. The bed of my pickup is FULL. Some have windows on them, up to windows 2000. Im going to give 2 to my parents, one for brother in 6th grade, and one for parents to do bank statement stuff. They have other new computers, just want it separate from it.

I am thinking about putting an old RH Linux distro, Debian, or Damn Small Linux on them.

The specs on these are:

Mid-tower case
Pentium 166
128mb Ram
2-4GB hard drives
16x CD-ROM
Sound card
NIC

 

[Nohr]

I wonder if you could make some sort of cluster out of them.

 

[Platypus]

Send them to me, I need some a few like that

 

[yoda291]

dns service for your LAN.

 

[Pocatello]

You could donate them to a school or some poor families. A 166 Mhz pentium system with windows 95 is good enough for Office 97, which is essential for any student, linux with open office would be great too.

 

[cchen]

donate to charity, homeless shelter, or other needy organization (tax-deductible too)

 

[oniq]

Crush them into a small cube and use it as a paperweight

 

[Winchester]

I work on the "bad" side of town and I have already dontated a few of these to people in need. I put Windows 98 and StarOffice on those.

I just know I dont have room for them in my room unless I can find something useful to do with them.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Donate to charity.

- M4H

 

[bandana163]

Gift-wrap them and send them to your fellow ATOTers.

 

[FoBoT]

garbage

any Intel system slower than Pentium II 266 is garbage
any AMD system slower than the first Athlon's/Duron's are garbage

 

[Deeko]

beowulf?

 

[Platypus]

ygpm

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Recycle them.

 

[Winchester]

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
Recycle them.

That will cost me $.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
garbage
any Intel system slower than Pentium II 266 is garbage
any AMD system slower than the first Athlon's/Duron's are garbage

Not for DOS and W95 classic games.

Doom 1 - 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Rise of the Triad, Blake Stone, ...
Mechwarrior 2
LucasArts adventures like Full Throttle, Grim Fandango
X-Com
Civilization 2
Master of Orion, Master of Magic
etc. etc.

Put them in FS/FT for $30-40 +shipping and see what happens.

 

[eigen]

Cluster them together and run a distributed computing attack on some project or send them to me(just the boxes) I will pay shipping so that I can do the same.