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What to do with an old PC?
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Try out Linux on it. I use Ubuntu it really is user friendly. Even if you don't want to use it for the web anymore it is handy to have it as a back up. Also you can use it for storage photos, docs etc. Put all your music on it turn it into a Jukebox. That way you won't block up your new machine.You can always get more with a kind word and a 2-by-4 than with just a kind word.0
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Wow thats an old pc. If I was you apart from destroying the HD I take it too the tip. We have absoultely rubbish (no pun) recycling facilities no door step collection but we do have a tip where we dipose stuff in various very large skips, and its free0
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Hi MickKnipfler
I agree with Skint1, use it to experiment with Ubuntu Linux.Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.0 -
Errr...Why????
A DX4-66 based PC is from about 1994ish will probably have...ooh at least 500MB of hard drive.
You will get loads on that.....
I remember getting a hard drive for my Mac Plus (a Platinum coloured one, no less!!). It cost me £299 and had a capacity of........................40MB.
Yes, MEGABYTES!!!! The hard drive was housed in a case the size of your average external hard drive of today (a MyBook or similar sized one).
A bargain, compred to the Mac, which originally cost something in excess of £2400....
Hey, just to think, you could spend £2400 on a Mac and get it to play a vomiting sound when it automatically ejected the floppy. Those were the days!British Ex-pat in British Columbia!0 -
I think I paid about £1400 for it too......maybe I should stick it on Ebay for a 5p laugh.....0
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What to do with an old PC? I would tell him to retire as hes not running fast enough anymore to catch the criminals
I came into this world with nothing and I'm gonna leave with nothing.0 -
His name's PC World0
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