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A few months ago, I became the happy new owner of a 17 year old mac LC. I'm not sure weather it was the fond memories of the system from primary school [my school was well behind the times- they still had mac IIs in 1997!] or some sort of geeky aura that surrounds 16 MHz Motorola processors and other obscure, long dead technologies; but I just had to have it. On the practical side, they are supposed to run GNU/Linux quite well [once I upgrade the hard disk- the 20 meg unit is going this week to make room for an 18 gig disk].

So anyway, I tossed around some ideas for it- SILC serving, cron jobs, messaging, emacs authoring [both LaTeX and C], some browsing [probably with dillo or something, I sure wont do javascript or flash on it], etc, and then I was wondering, do you own any obscure or old hardware, and what do you use it for? Otherwise, what would you use it for? Do you know of any fast, light programs I'd find useful on such a machine?

One other thing I wanted to ask about, do any of you know about places that sell ethernet PDS cards? The worst thing about having ancient tech is when you need an old add-on card :( Looks like I'll be using IP-over-SCSI for a while, which is not fun because it does mean some minor kernel hacking.

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was put impeccably into words at DebianDay for me last Saturday, by Knut Yrvin of Trolltech - adults try something once, fail, and then are like "ffs this doesn't work". Children try, fail, and then try again, and succeed - maybe on the second, or even fifth retry. But the thing is that they keep at it and overcome the problems in the end.

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i have a 300mhz x86 compaq presario as a domain controller running win2k server
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I have a 30 pin RAM module as a keychain :cheesy:

I have a video card that sits on my desk that has no working drivers under XP
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I have a 266 mhz PII compaq presario running Windows XP (surprisingly fast, actually) capable of doing 1900*1200 or some big res like that.
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I have a 266 mhz PII compaq presario running Windows XP (surprisingly fast, actually) capable of doing 1900*1200 or some big res like that.

Nice! I remember my 200MHz MMX machine doing 1600x1200x24 bit games fine. Crazy that.
was put impeccably into words at DebianDay for me last Saturday, by Knut Yrvin of Trolltech - adults try something once, fail, and then are like "ffs this doesn't work". Children try, fail, and then try again, and succeed - maybe on the second, or even fifth retry. But the thing is that they keep at it and overcome the problems in the end.

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Got a old apple powerbook 150/170 (not too sure, as it says 170 on the front and 150 on the bottom) And a old windows 3.11 laptop somewhere around the house, they both work still. :cheesy:

I used to have some strange compaq thing that looked like a microwave with a 75MHz cpu + 4MB RAM + 500MB HDD but someone stole it >.>
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i have a microbee, and it's used as a dust collector

i also have an ethernet card that's not pci so it might be PDS some1 gave it too me

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I have a 266 mhz PII compaq presario running Windows XP (surprisingly fast, actually) capable of doing 1900*1200 or some big res like that.

using the onboard graphics?!@#
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I have a 266 mhz PII compaq presario running Windows XP (surprisingly fast, actually) capable of doing 1900*1200 or some big res like that.

using the onboard graphics?!@#

I don't think onboard graphics existed back then :P
was put impeccably into words at DebianDay for me last Saturday, by Knut Yrvin of Trolltech - adults try something once, fail, and then are like "ffs this doesn't work". Children try, fail, and then try again, and succeed - maybe on the second, or even fifth retry. But the thing is that they keep at it and overcome the problems in the end.

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using the onboard graphics?!@#
Well, I'm sure it wasn't upgraded so :p
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