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Old Computer (what should i do with it?)
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Maryland
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It's a Performa 575 (old, I know) I have less that 100 megs left on my hard drive, I can no longer run the computer in anything above 256 color so what can I use it for? It's also NOT online.
P.S. I am typing this on my iMacDV, NOT my Performa!
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Senior User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Earth
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Old Macs are great! I use one for home automation (http://www.shed.com), another for an "in-house" mail server using SIMS (freeware). Can also use it as a fax machine, even a web server (for small network, e.g.). Also have used one for computerized cookbook in (near) kitchen.
Best regards ...
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"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." (Kierkegaard)
"What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are." (Epictetus)
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Wetsponge
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I have a stack of older computers, a PM 6100/80 (clock chipped), a performa 600CD and a mac LC. the LC and 600CD have mac os 7.5.3, the LC is a DNS server, and the 600CD is a mail server. the PM 6100/80 is running a Linux Distrib and is running as a web server, all going off of my DSL line. if you're interested,
http://www.ironduckproductions.com
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Tim Michael [finboy]
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If nothing else, you can give it to some enterprising high school student or a niece or nephew. The OS support is on line now (at apple, they can download 7.5.3 for free) and there are lots of sites with software and cheap printers, etc. That's a perfect thing to do with older computers.
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