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talleywack
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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
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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
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^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
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Use VMs or emulators to play old games.

2/5/2011 3:46:12 AM

JBaz
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or don't play old games

2/5/2011 6:21:33 PM

wdprice3
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2/5/2011 7:17:42 PM

talleywack
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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
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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
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^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
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or go office space on it with a bat and your fist.

2/8/2011 3:01:18 PM

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