what to do with old computer equipment

[petejk]

I think its too slow for any of these parts to be usable.

ebay them?
try to sell in classifieds?
i'm thinking about just taking them to a computer waste place to get it handled properly...

what do you all think?

 

[dug777]

you could send them me to play with, pls?

 

[se7en]

What I would do is try to piece 2gether a whole system out of old things maybe if you have enough between the 2? Then donate to either a local church / charity and you have a great tax deduction! Don't put an OS on but long as it turns on most places will take it might not give you a million for it but better than just tossing it out.

 

[aircooled]

I've got about 60 or 70 PII 233's here at work that I can't even get a charity to take of my hands..

 

[Mutilator]

Far from too slow to be a Smoothwall Firewall.

 

[PingSpike]

The answer is clear. A pr0n server you must build.

 

[jlee]

My brother could use a dirt cheap system to mess around with.. 🙂

 

[CraigRT]

I would buy them for cheap...
that's the type of stuff we can use @ my place for order entry PC's (telnet sessions)
I love finding good used parts like that.

 

[Anubis]

use as a linux firewall or a linux webcashing box

 

[new2AMD]

carputer

 

[hevnsnt]

Originally posted by: Mutilator
Far from too slow to be a Smoothwall Firewall.

seconded.

 

[Koing]

SETI

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: hevnsnt

Originally posted by: Mutilator
Far from too slow to be a Smoothwall Firewall.

seconded.

3rded

twa swhat i was egtting as as well

 

[bloinkXP]

MAME or Vantage System.

Nothing beats a home arcade.

-d

Check 'em
www.mame.net
www.arcadecontrols.com

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
The answer is clear. A pr0n server you must build.

That or a MP3 music server. The Celeron 500 is plenty fast for that. My old media PC (before it hit the dust) was a Celeron 500 and it played DivX too but honestly the latest and greatest DivX was starting to lag seriously. All these TopGear episodes killed it. 😛

 

[meltdown75]

i put together an old system for use in my garage - probably going to be the start of my Mame project as bloinkXP suggested. it's got DIALUP too! :Q

i actually took a pic of it last night but didn't want to post it. 😱

 

[beach2nd]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
The answer is clear. A pr0n server you must build.

 

[fireontheway]

Originally posted by: beach2nd1

Originally posted by: PingSpike
The answer is clear. A pr0n server you must build.

:thumbsup:

 

[3chordcharlie]

firewall/router/fileserver

web/email/typing PC

playbox to learn/use linux (probably need more ram to make it unfrustrating though)

OC the 500C and you have a passable w9x gaming computer (you can pick up a voodoo2 card for $10)

Add a hard drive and a hardware mpeg encoder, and you might have a passable htpc (maybe not; they are pretty slow for that)

 

[Ranger X]

eBay parts that can be eBayed and junk the rest. I think there are special places where you can bring your system to get it junked.

 

[Leper Messiah]

Fold! You must set them up to fold! (team 734, btw)