A while ago I upgraded my wife’s PC to a P3-500 (…courtesy of upgrading my own to a 1.2Ghz Tbird). So I now have downstairs in the basement gathering dust the following:
Pentium 200Mhz (classic, non-mmx)
ATX Mobo and Case
32MB EDO RAM
2GB HD
4MB PCI Verite video card
Sound Blaster 16
I have her present PC and mine on a small home LAN. I would like some ideas as to what to with this critter. I am thinking of donating it, but it is minus a few parts (monitor, floppy, CD-ROM, keyboard, mouse) and she would like to get something (not necessarily much) in return for it (other than a nice feeling). Being from Canada, I don’t believe they can give tax reciepts for it if I donate it, so any other ideas? I was wondering even if I did donate it, since its not complete if they would even get any use out of it, or just cannabilize it some more.
I can buy 1.1 ghz HP Athalon refurbs with 60 gig drives + CDRW"s with 128 megs of RAM etc etc for about 600 bucks online. Given this fact and less the parts you intend on removing the only real value it has is pretty close to a “good feeling”. Interestly you might be able to get some money on Ebay for the non-MMX 200 mhz CPU by itself as these are sometimes sought as the maximum upgrade path for non-MMX MB’s and often sell for more than the 200 mhz MMX chips due to their relative scarcity.
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i chuck ANYTHING on my LAN.
If it can get an OS ( anything will do ) it gets involved in my computers somehow.
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I SHOULD have a LAN by now, but i have had a bunch of distractions of late, so i have 2x 450 amd PC’s one 486 and 3 low PII’s, oh and a laptop i guess, to network
i got it all planned, but i havent got round to doing it yet, going touni next year, so i will do it between classes or something.
anyway, u could use it as a jukebox. fill it with MP3’s, adn play your music, freeing up your primary computer for proper stuff.
Or you could chuck LINUX on it and tinker with that, That’s always good for a laugh.
or smash up all the innards and make a colage, and make the case into a breadbin or something, they look about the right size…
I like the firewall suggestion, myself. And I would suggest you put Linux on it so you can use the most cost-effective software in the world (The GNU Project’s software fits this bill, even if they are EMACS usersVim rules! :)). Anyway, you can never have too many firewall computers, there is plenty of support to help even the rankest newbie, learning Linux is a Very Good Thing ™, and it’s not only free, it’s liberated (and liberating)!
Enough ranting. Get a Linux distro and setup a firewall.
Are you sure about this? I’ve got a bunch of 4 - 8 and even 64 meg EDO SIMMS gathering dust and judging by Ebay they’re going for approx .50 cents a meg at present which is about 1/2 to 1/4 what I paid for them. Now granted it’s more than SDRAM but it’s not what I’d call “expensive”.
Geez. I dunno. Gimme an offer? The only thing you may want to remember is that it is kinda heavy (My guess about 20lbs or so) so shipping to you might be a couple of bucks (even $25 through post?) I live in Canada. Its about a 17" ATX case. One of the very first ones. I bought it in late 95 or early 96. It has since been upgraded a bit though. The MB has been upgraded since new. It is a Super7 board that has 2MB of L2 cache if memory serves and 2 USB ports.
Thanks for the ideas folks. I never thought much about parting it out. I’m really not too interested in the firewall idea, just since that means that I would have to put another box on my LAN and I’m really not too interested in that. Thanks though.
You’re right. I’d forgotten that the cost to ship it might be significant. I’m still interested though. I have no idea what to offer for it, since I’ve never bought a whole computer that was newer than a 486.
If I come up with an offer, is it alright to email you? If you think up a price, feel free to email me.
