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What can I do with this old system?

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DEredita

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I have an old system:
AMD K6-2 - 450 MHZ
384MB SD RAM
Onboard graphics (8 MB shared)
Windows 98
It also has an old 8 GB 4800? RPM hard drive.


I have an old 40GB 7200 RPM drive sitting in another pc as an unused secondary hard drive. I'm thinking of removing the 40GB out and putting it in the k6-2 system and doing an install of Windows 2000.

Think it's worth it?

This system will just be an online pc for around my house.


- Mike
 
If its not packed with a lot of automatic startup programs, it will work fine as a web/email station.
 


Right now while it's a Windows 98 machine, the only things that start up are explorer, systray, and the virus scan software.

- Mike
 
You can do lots of things with it.
I'd probably use it as a file server/SETI cracker (even though K6 CPU's suck at that stuff, at least it could be put to use)
 
Originally posted by: CraigRT
You can do lots of things with it.
I'd probably use it as a file server/SETI cracker (even though K6 CPU's suck at that stuff, at least it could be put to use)
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yeah, use it as a file server or dist. computing device. It's like putting an old bull out to pasture, or stickin your grandpa in a retirement home
 
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