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CardJoe · 22nd Aug 2008, 13:21

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/08...ches-c64-bbs/1

Lief Bloomquist has set up a BBS system running on a venerable Commodore 64 and connected to the Internet via a Telnet proxy - in a "moment of nostalgic geekiness.

HugoB · 22nd Aug 2008, 13:25

I just get "We're under attack! Good luck with that, whoever you are. ;-) "

Xir · 22nd Aug 2008, 13:49

Good Question!

What (usefull) can be done with old hardware.

Upto 8086 (5 Mhz?)
Upto 486 (100 Mhz)
Upto P3 (500 Mhz?)
Upto P4 / Athlon (1 Ghz?)

I for one have a C16, an 8086 (3 Mhz) a Celeron 266 and an Athlon 600 standing about Idle gathering dust. (yes, complete machines)

yakyb · 22nd Aug 2008, 14:08

routers / firewalls

fileservers

folding?

steveo_mcg · 22nd Aug 2008, 14:42

Folding on a c64 that would be funny...

Zeus-Nolan · 22nd Aug 2008, 15:29

Ha 1000 years and it would only do 1 work unit

scarrmrcc · 22nd Aug 2008, 16:14

BUT! if you linked every 64 in the planet together..

Firehed · 22nd Aug 2008, 16:42

Awesome. Let's slashdot a server running on a C64... I'm sure that'll go well.

Well, just as well as Hugo said. Sheesh, I wish all of the overloaded Wordpress blogs would time out that quickly.

KayDat · 22nd Aug 2008, 16:52

8080 is "Still Alive".

The cake may be a lie, but the usefulness of old hardware certainly isn't.

-EVRE- · 22nd Aug 2008, 17:45

I have an old NEC laptop, ita a VERSA S/33, with a color screen!! 250mb hdd and 4mb of ram!

still works, I just fired it up after reading this post :b

Back in the day of my high school years I built several 486's that were web worthy, its amazing what an sx25 can do! I remember running 3D Studio MAX on that thing.. had to export my 3d's to another computer if I wanted them rendered tho.. currently my moms finance computer is a pII 233 with 256mb of ram and w2k. Its a bit slow loading fancy web pages, but it gets there!

Xir · 25th Aug 2008, 15:58

yeah...but why use a 266 for browsing if you hav a new computer doing that also...
My 600 Athlon was my DivX Box for 2 years, then the Codec appearently became too complex and it started stuttering on newer movies.

Router...yes! I've used a Fli4l*-Router on an underclocked 33mhz computer for a few years...could cool it passively, no harddisk so absolutely silent. Even the PSU was silenced...by taking off the top and removing the fan (the top stayed off...bigtower)
Apart from the floppy that only ran when connecting new there was no motor in this baby ;-)

Xir

* Fli4L stands for "floppy isdn for linux" works with DSL though

ZERO <ibis> · 26th Aug 2008, 00:07

Old computers can and almost always should be used to help out around the house:

I have a 1.5ghz original p4 with 512mb of rumbas and raid 1 with 2x 80gb drives and a geforce 3 and a 5.1 creative labs sound card that I use to play music in my room and browse the internet. It also acts as a secure place to work on papers when not in my office. I have has that computer since 2001 and I will still have it for years to come.

I am getting ready to build a media center computer out of an old 2.4ghz northwood and 512-1024mb of ram. I have a geforce 6 series with component out so I plan to hook it up that way. I only need it to play videos hosted on my file server that the crappy ps3 refuses to load. I have an old infrared keyboard with joystick that I will sue to control it.

My current file server is an old rackmount system with an old 2.5ghz p4 and 1gb of ram with only 300gb of storage between 3hard drives all ATA. I had the drives lying around and the computer so I figured I would put it to some good use.

When I build a new main computer this winter my current system will be converted into the file server. At that point I plan to invest in some big drives and give it a few TB of storage on a RAID 5. You can see the current stats for this system in my sig.

Amon · 26th Aug 2008, 01:44

Who's Garreth Halfacree?

Xir · 26th Aug 2008, 08:55

Wont this Result in a file server that eats massive amounts of electricity?

CardJoe · 26th Aug 2008, 09:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amon

Who's Garreth Halfacree?

News writer for the last year or so...you do read the about page, right?

Amon · 27th Aug 2008, 03:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by CardJoe

News writer for the last year or so...you do read the about page, right?

Nope!!

Gareth Halfacree · 27th Aug 2008, 09:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amon

Who's Garreth Halfacree?

I'm genuinely hurt.

22nd Aug 2008, 13:21	#1
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22nd Aug 2008, 13:25	#2
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22nd Aug 2008, 13:49	#3
Xir Supermodder Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Germany Posts: 531	Good Question! What (usefull) can be done with old hardware. Upto 8086 (5 Mhz?) Upto 486 (100 Mhz) Upto P3 (500 Mhz?) Upto P4 / Athlon (1 Ghz?) I for one have a C16, an 8086 (3 Mhz) a Celeron 266 and an Athlon 600 standing about Idle gathering dust. (yes, complete machines) __________________ SN25P A64 3700+ (San Diego) 2 GB DDR400 OCZ Platinum EL 2-3-2-5 1T X1800XT 512mb Sapphire 200GB Samsung SP2004C

22nd Aug 2008, 14:08	#4
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22nd Aug 2008, 14:42	#5
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22nd Aug 2008, 15:29	#6
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22nd Aug 2008, 16:14	#7
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22nd Aug 2008, 16:42	#8
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22nd Aug 2008, 16:52	#9
KayDat Minimodder Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Posts: 27	8080 is "Still Alive". The cake may be a lie, but the usefulness of old hardware certainly isn't.

22nd Aug 2008, 17:45	#10
-EVRE- Supermodder Join Date: May 2004 Location: Idaho U.S.A Posts: 343	I have an old NEC laptop, ita a VERSA S/33, with a color screen!! 250mb hdd and 4mb of ram! still works, I just fired it up after reading this post :b Back in the day of my high school years I built several 486's that were web worthy, its amazing what an sx25 can do! I remember running 3D Studio MAX on that thing.. had to export my 3d's to another computer if I wanted them rendered tho.. currently my moms finance computer is a pII 233 with 256mb of ram and w2k. Its a bit slow loading fancy web pages, but it gets there! __________________ (Phenom II 940)(Foxcon A7DA)(8gb OCZ DDR2 800 )(8800gt aka hair dryer)(Big yellow case, CPU, GPU)(Enermax Liberty 500w)(lite-on DVD-RW w/LightScribe)(Seagate 300gb sata)(Seagate 320gb x2)(WD 200gb)(Dell 3007WFP 30"LCD, 19" Samsung, Acer 1280x720 projector)

25th Aug 2008, 15:58	#11
Xir Supermodder Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Germany Posts: 531	yeah...but why use a 266 for browsing if you hav a new computer doing that also... My 600 Athlon was my DivX Box for 2 years, then the Codec appearently became too complex and it started stuttering on newer movies. Router...yes! I've used a Fli4l-Router on an underclocked 33mhz computer for a few years...could cool it passively, no harddisk so absolutely silent. Even the PSU was silenced...by taking off the top and removing the fan (the top stayed off...bigtower) Apart from the floppy that only ran when connecting new there was no motor in this baby ;-) Xir Fli4L stands for "floppy isdn for linux" works with DSL though __________________ SN25P A64 3700+ (San Diego) 2 GB DDR400 OCZ Platinum EL 2-3-2-5 1T X1800XT 512mb Sapphire 200GB Samsung SP2004C

26th Aug 2008, 00:07	#12
ZERO <ibis> Supermodder Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Atlanta Posts: 267	Old computers can and almost always should be used to help out around the house: I have a 1.5ghz original p4 with 512mb of rumbas and raid 1 with 2x 80gb drives and a geforce 3 and a 5.1 creative labs sound card that I use to play music in my room and browse the internet. It also acts as a secure place to work on papers when not in my office. I have has that computer since 2001 and I will still have it for years to come. I am getting ready to build a media center computer out of an old 2.4ghz northwood and 512-1024mb of ram. I have a geforce 6 series with component out so I plan to hook it up that way. I only need it to play videos hosted on my file server that the crappy ps3 refuses to load. I have an old infrared keyboard with joystick that I will sue to control it. My current file server is an old rackmount system with an old 2.5ghz p4 and 1gb of ram with only 300gb of storage between 3hard drives all ATA. I had the drives lying around and the computer so I figured I would put it to some good use. When I build a new main computer this winter my current system will be converted into the file server. At that point I plan to invest in some big drives and give it a few TB of storage on a RAID 5. You can see the current stats for this system in my sig. __________________ 965 @ 4.26GHz-P6T DELUXE-GTX 280@750&1307-DDR3 Triple Channel@1001 MHz-RAID 0 Cheta 15.6k SAS-All Water cooled IBIS GAMING

26th Aug 2008, 01:44	#13
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26th Aug 2008, 08:55	#14
Xir Supermodder Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Germany Posts: 531	Wont this Result in a file server that eats massive amounts of electricity? __________________ SN25P A64 3700+ (San Diego) 2 GB DDR400 OCZ Platinum EL 2-3-2-5 1T X1800XT 512mb Sapphire 200GB Samsung SP2004C