Ok I have this old 486 aka 66mhz pc with 24MB Ram. 4 GB Harddisk and NO cd rom drive, anyidea what I can use it for?
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What to use a 486 for?
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, Feb 18 2006 12:05 PM
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Posted 18 February 2006 - 12:05 PM
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Posted 18 February 2006 - 12:52 PM
It's very okay to run a LOAF server on it. Though you might wanna have a bigger hdd for it then. LOAF is Linux on a Floppy btw.
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Posted 18 February 2006 - 01:59 PM
My old one would have made i nice boad anchor i think 
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Posted 18 February 2006 - 05:45 PM
get like Redhat 5.2 running on it 
maybe you could set it up as a firewall or something?
maybe you could set it up as a firewall or something?
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Posted 21 February 2006 - 12:44 AM
Would work fine as a tire chalk, to keep your car from rolling down hill. 
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Posted 21 February 2006 - 05:30 AM
That is what I would do. I would set up some form of linux on it, and use it as a firewall. It takes little or nothing from a machine to run, so that old slow machine would be good.
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Posted 26 February 2006 - 04:50 PM
Ahhh sounds like a plan, install linux. Btw could I have a basic server on it? Basic linux server?
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Posted 27 February 2006 - 12:42 AM
Door stop, Windows 95...Linux...MAYBE.
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Posted 27 February 2006 - 04:11 PM
Sounds like a waste of space to me I had one made by RM which I kept 95 on and installed loads of the old programs like Microsoft BOB. Then ofcourse I chucked it out
I had one made by RM which I kept 95 on and installed loads of the old programs like Microsoft BOB. Then ofcourse I chucked it out
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Posted 27 February 2006 - 04:27 PM
Microsoft Bob was pretty cool for it's time but it was a resource hog.
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Posted 28 February 2006 - 10:22 AM
It was rubbish lol. Rover or other characters sat in a house.
A failure!
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Posted 28 February 2006 - 02:12 PM
you just had to modify it was all, I liked using it to hide stuff from my brother and sister 
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Posted 11 March 2006 - 02:49 PM
You know whats funny the person who was in charge of advertising MS BOB was wait for it Bill Gates's wife. Well I think I might install DSL (Damn small linux) on my doorstop
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Posted 12 March 2006 - 01:18 PM
Cool. Pity you didn't get Clarky's 3.11 cos that would be cool
Clarky .rar that disk and PM it me mate
Clarky .rar that disk and PM it me mate
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Posted 12 March 2006 - 01:32 PM
Somewhere on the web, there's a site which has Win1.0 to Win3.11 for download. as well as DOS 1-7
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