Old laptop, what to do with it?

[Master Razor]

well, keep it as a memory

True. I myself have my first PC kept in a sealed box. I kept it as a reminder of where I came from and the material possibilities available at that time.

[anon]

well, keep it as a memory

"I remember that time when I bought a useless laptop because it was cheap..."

And I still have my first desktop PC in a box, too.

[mammamia11]

in iraq we say: الغالي رخيص

[accuphase]

give it to someone who can't afford one! :)

[Fruk]

Keep it, because you can sell it in 2100 for big ones.

[anon]

Keep it, because you can sell it in 2100 for big ones.

That makes a rather generous assumption about my lifespan.

Anyway, months have passed and I haven't done anything with this thing. It's all disassembled and stored in the bag it came on, under my bed.

[Master Razor]

I would take it if I'd been closer to you

[anon]

Keep it, because you can sell it in 2100 for big ones.

I would take it if I'd been closer to you

Alright, this reminds me. The game Front Mission 3 is set in year 2112, and in it, a character can somehow send you a walking tank through the Internet. Maybe Fruk's idea isn't that bad.

[Master Razor]

Just got myself a Compaq Presario 1245 Notebook. After all, why should anon have all the fun?
Now, it has 32MB RAM. What am i gonna do with it?

[slikrapid]

After all, why should anon have all the fun?...What am i gonna do with it?

- ask anon how to have fun with it?

- Using an Old Laptop as Second Monitor:

http://www.brighthub.com/environment/green-computing/articles/68905.aspx

- ask yourself: y u no remember this:

http://www.sb-innovation.de/showthre...298#post308568

- Ask Jeeves?

- become famous by uploading a video of doing something unusual with it, on second thought, make that: extremely unusual hehe

- keep it near-by so you can smash it to pieces instead of lashing-out at your new/current computer (when angry at a/the computer or simply when you want to break stuff)

- let it taste your 'mastery of the razor'

[anon]

Processor
AMD K6-2 333.0 MHz

Memory
32.0 MB ( 32.0 MB soldered) / 160.0 MB (max)

Those stats

This article elaborates on ten possible tasks for very old hardware like yours - in this specific case, a Pentium 133. It's in Spanish, but in case you can't be bothered to run it through Google's an online translator, here's a summary of possibilities:

1. firewall, if it has or you can add an Ethernet NIC.
2. music player, Winamp 2.95 can do it
3. digital portrait, but that feels a bit like a waste for me.
4. basic text processing/note taking/office work
5. point of sale/cash register if you run a shop.
6. leechbox, if you hook an external hard drive to it.
7. very light surfing/e-mail.
8. Linux time as Blocker said earlier in this thread.
9. overclocking practice(?)
10. emulation. NES, arcade or other old ROMs should have no problem running under such a system.

PS: I still haven't done anything with my old laptop.

PPS: what if I could travel to the past when these Compaqs were manufactured with my current, Windows 7 netbook? I would be a god (Or maybe not, since it doesn't have a 56K modem )

[Master Razor]

@slikrapid
I remember everything I said and can do that. I never gave stupid advice; my two cents are based on facts. We can ask anon if he though my advice was idiotic. Wonder what he'll say...
I got it for free from some guys I helped out but I requested it for one reason only: to be able to write my thesis at work. I have some free time over there so why not?

I am concerned for its internal memory which is 32 MB. I never in my life had to work with such a low amount. I'm thinking not even windows is good for it. I'll have to install a light distro of linux.

[anon]

We can ask anon if he though my advice was idiotic. Wonder what he'll say...

I don't think that's what he meant.

I got it for free from some guys I helped out but I requested it for one reason only: to be able to write my thesis at work. I have some free time over there so why not?

I am concerned for its internal memory which is 32 MB. I never in my life had to work with such a low amount. I'm thinking not even windows is good for it. I'll have to install a light distro of linux.

Windows 95 can run with 4 MB of RAM. If you're only going to use it for writing, you don't need much more than that. Make sure you get a copy of 95b OSR 2.1, as newer versions include the IE shell, wasting precious megabytes with fluff. Then you can install Office 97, or use Wordpad or even Notepad to write.

Nathan's Toasty Technology Page

This guy is a fan of Windows 95 and you can find a ton of stuff for it there, there's even a USB mass storage driver.

[slikrapid]

I don't think that's what he meant.

that


twas an attempt to make some funny suggestions
...though i did have a strange feeling of not including enough smileys in the post (to avoid misinterpretation)

[Lucius]

Media center maybe :)