Or you could install linux on them and donate them to 3rd world
countries as mail/usenet uucp machines for individual
villages. This is a _useful_ and humane thing to do!
--jmg
> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 16:00:30 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Captain Napalm <spc_at_armigeron.com>
> To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: Wirehead Update
>
> It was thus said that the Great Zane H. Healy once stated:
> >
> > >The other thing I need to do is find uses for the pile of 386 and 486
> > >boxes in my garage. It's 6 feet wide and 4 feet tall, neatly stacked.
>
> Well, you could install Linux/Beowulf on them and get supercomputer
> performance, then rent space on them. Beowulf is clustering software for
> Linux developed at NASA and freely available. It's been used in several
> other labs with great results (from what I hear).
>
> Check out http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/beowulf/ for more information.
>
> > Of course the smartalick answer that came to mind was to turn them on end,
> > get some cement, and build a shed useing them instead of bricks :^)
>
> Of course there's always that.
>
> -spc (Or set up a massively parallel web server and rent space out on it)
>
Received on Thu Apr 09 1998 - 17:57:21 BST