How do you use your old PC ?

#1 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 - 10:32 MacNN

My old PC laptop is being used as a wireless floppy drive

Every once in a full moon, I need to put something on this aged data medium.
I can access the floppy directly from the Finder, works really nice.

Still trying to get remote eject working...

-t

#2 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 - 16:05 MacNN

...

#3 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 - 16:10 MacNN

doorstop

#4 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 - 16:20 MacNN

my wife uses it as her computer.....

#5 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 - 17:25 MacNN

Old PC + vid card with A/V Out + OEM Remote Wonder = The media player stashed out of sight in my living room.

#6 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 - 17:36 MacNN

My Dell keeps the carpet on the floor. Carpetweight (TM)

#7 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 - 17:46 MacNN

My Powerbook 540c runs After Dark, since OS X can't.

It's the only job it has now.

#8 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 - 21:31 MacNN

My tangerine iBook runs OS 9, good for portable writing.
Old PCs I install Linux on and donate to schools or charities.
I just got a blazing Pentium III/500 to run QNX on.

#9 Tue, 13 Jul 2004 - 00:26 MacNN

I'm using the spare parts as decorations.

#10 Tue, 13 Jul 2004 - 10:52 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by Stradlater:
doorstop

What he said.

#11 Tue, 13 Jul 2004 - 12:07 MacNN

play games + internet.

#12 Tue, 13 Jul 2004 - 22:03 MacNN

Give it the tough jobs, the workhorse tasks. Make it a server of some kind, make it do your downloading, make it do any task that takes resources away from your Mac. It helps ease the pain of an older macintosh ;-)

#13 Tue, 13 Jul 2004 - 22:05 MacNN

Drop testing tool.

#14 Tue, 13 Jul 2004 - 22:09 MacNN

I don't.

#15 Tue, 13 Jul 2004 - 23:53 MacNN

FreeBSD server.