talleywack Veteran 499 Posts user info edit post |
Anybody have any ideas of uses or value for this thing? Used this first 2 years at NCSU and pulled it out of the to be recycled pile forming in my garage. Thinking about taking it a part, to poke around. 2/5/2011 12:26:59 AM |
smoothcrim Universal Magnetic! 18968 Posts user info edit post |
use it to play really old games that don't work on multicore processors or throw it away 2/5/2011 12:37:19 AM |
lewisje All American 9196 Posts user info edit post |
^It might not be the number of cores that's the problem (you can always set processor affinity) but rather the word size (64-bit Windows lacks the 16-bit subsystem that 32-bit Windows had) 2/5/2011 1:09:24 AM |
darkone (\/) (;,,,;) (\/) 11611 Posts user info edit post |
Use VMs or emulators to play old games. 2/5/2011 3:46:12 AM |
JBaz All American 16764 Posts user info edit post |
or don't play old games 2/5/2011 6:21:33 PM |
wdprice3 BinaryBuffonary 45912 Posts user info edit post |
2/5/2011 7:17:42 PM |
talleywack Veteran 499 Posts user info edit post |
I guess you are not one for nostalgia. Well i took it all apart if anybody is interested in old ram, motherboard, the 3.5 inch floppy disk drive, cd rom drive, hard drive, or power supply. If not I will be harvesting it for components to use for random stuff. ex. solar panel proj. 2/8/2011 10:32:35 AM |
Skack All American 31140 Posts user info edit post |
I can see how some miscellaneous old computer parts would be useful in a solar power system. 2/8/2011 1:05:13 PM |
wwwebsurfer All American 10217 Posts user info edit post |
^just bypass the solar array with the old power supply so you'll get enough juice off it to run something 2/8/2011 2:27:09 PM |
JBaz All American 16764 Posts user info edit post |
or go office space on it with a bat and your fist. 2/8/2011 3:01:18 PM |