Re: tlug: Giving an old pc a new purpose in life?

[Sam Julien <sam.julien@example.com>]

Not able to maybe laplink from a different system? Maybe hang it on a wall (
open like a painting)running screensavers or some cool graphic as the Y2K ve
rsion of art (but being 95, it would be a poor form of art).

Find a motion detector that will plug into one of the ports and make it your
 new E-Guard Dog. Put a scary .avi file of a massive dog barking, or the Ali
en or something, programmed to play the file at the first sign of movement. 
(Just need a nice Phat Amp and a pair of Roland speakers to get the right ef
fect).

S 


At 13:54 99/09/13 +0900, you wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an old laptop sitting around, and I'm trying to think of something
> creative and interesting that I can do with it. At the moment, it's doing
> nothing, but it's such a cool design (one of those little IBM butterfly
> thinkpads with the folding keyboard) that I feel like it deserves a better
> fate than gathering dust (well, actually, mold -- this is japan and I have
> no AC) in my closet. I just haven't thought of anything good yet.
> 
> The stats:
> 
> *Intel 486/75
> *24 MB ram
> *360 MB HD
> *NO Cdrom
> *NO Floppy (there's an external drive, but I lost the connecting cable in
> an airport somewhere)
> *Ports: 1 parallel, 1 IRDA (there's a port replicator which adds 9-pin
> RS232, video, and maybe mouse and keyboard, but it's in the USA), Internal
> 14.4 modem 
> *Currently has Win95 installed on it. 
> 
> As I don't have a CDROM, floppy, or a network card for it, I can't figure
> out how to get anything else on there. Getting linux onto this machine
> would definitely be an interesting exercise. The missing floppy would
> certainly add an unusual challenge.
> 
> So, what would YOU do with such a beast, besides use it as a bookend? I'm
> looking for interesting ideas, and open to all suggestions, no matter how
> bizarre.
> 
> john
> 
> jseebach@example.com
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