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    Lightbulb What to do with a 486?

    OK, so a mate of mine just threw out a 486 PC. He threw it my way.

    Here is a pic, click for a bigger pic:


    Spec:

    66Mhz 486DX
    8MB RAM
    240MB HDD
    2GB HDD

    It's an all ISA comp, dunno what mobo is in it yet - some sort of SIS chipset in there though - Award ISA BIOS.

    So, any suggestions with what to do with it? The thing isn't even quick enough to decode mp3's at 1x I don't think!

    Personally, I think once I've resprayed my other comp (behind it in the pic) I might have some paint left over for that one. I also think the 240MB drive could be involved in a window mod.

    What do you think with regards to modding and use?

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    could mod it up and use it as a router/firewall or possibly use it for smoothwall i spose.

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    Sadly I already have one of those!

    It's a 200mhz, 160MB RAM, and 2x 2GB HDD's running ClarkConnect 2.1

    lol.
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    Any explosives lying about ?
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    And by trying to force me to like small pants, they've alienated me.

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    just put it in a skip, its worth sod all tbh , unless you want to have some fun blowing it up like agent suggets

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    donate it to josh and his destructive tendencies
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    Josh is not getting his hands on this!

    And no liquids will be meeting with it!

    I'm tempted to use the case for something else and the hard drives in other places, and maybe turn the motherboard into something pretty.
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    It's an old PC. Shove a bit more memory in it, shove a bigger hard disk drive, put DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 on it and play some games... have some fun

    I'd like a 486 again to play around with...

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    lol

    i'd use the hard drives to do windows mods personally
    or use it to sit on if you run out of chairs

    here's some other ideas:
    http://82.42.131.173/josh/pcgunk/486/

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    Quote Originally Posted by mgh0
    donate it to josh and his destructive tendencies
    Quoted for absolute must-be-done
    "In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?"

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    The smallest hard drive is probably gonna be the victim of a window mod.

    I like some of the other suggestions. I particularly want to get windows 95 installed on it to get the soundcard working, lol. However I think I've killed the vid card and the CPU - stupid CPU sockets. I'm glad we have ZIF (zero insertion force) sockets these days instead of FLIF ('kin loads of insertion force) sockets. :S
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    Smashy smashy

    It's worthless really. Just throw it away.

    And if you take a hammer to it like I did with a similar-specced machine a couple of months back, be prepared for a fair bit of hard work to get it flat enough to fit in the dustbin!! They built them solid in the olden days!!
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    I made a Linux router out of a similar machine from work, but unfortunately it needed 64mb of ram even for a text install of RedHat 6.2

    It's probably pretty much worthless in real terms

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    what about coke.... i saw a vid from here... but you could do it in daylight so we could see it all happen...?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Applecrusher
    what about coke.... i saw a vid from here... but you could do it in daylight so we could see it all happen...?
    lol the problem with living in england, especially in the winter, is that it's only light when you're at work by the time you get home, it's dark

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