any silly uses for a 486

[pauladshead]

Can anyone think of amusing things to use old 486s for (its for a comp question) , funny answers only please

[Damned Angel]

ESD experiments......120v straight to anything inside it.

[Eagle PC Diagnostech]

Connect it to your house to turn the lights on and off when your away.

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An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

[Paul Cunningham]

Why stop at the lights !

I mean, you could have coffee and toast ready for you first thing in the morning, dinner cooked and the shopping done by the time you get home, etc,etc.

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So, How many modems got fried this thunderstorm ?

[AlienDyne]

1. Pull everything out and use the case to store your shoes. Especially if it's a full-tower one.
2. If a friend of yours collects insects (spiders or ants), give it to him. It'd be a great park and they could have some fun.
3. Put four wheels on it and use it as a skateboard.


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"Matter is passive. In spite of its power, it can't be controlled without the human mind."
Sokrates

[Darren Wilson]

they make great rockery ornaments or doorstops.

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[pcshark]

What do you mean, amusing? My PC is a 486!

I guess running OS/2 and NT Workstation on it is pretty amusing... LOL

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Professional Hockey: 8 months of the year when life actually means something.

[Green Iguana]

How about a head stone.

[Borut_P]

Good old Doom days

[bdunn]

let the kiddies play with it.

[Lord_FiQh]

Use it to educate the fishes! http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/wink.gif

[winky]

You need to try overclocking it to the max, try attaching a car battery to the processor for some extre juice if needed. If all else fails it makes a nice give it to some younger kid so they can learn all about these wonderful thing called a 486 they learned about in their computer class.

[gandalf2k]

I use mine to feed my fish (becuase I surf so much I forget)

[Cave Diver]

See what it looks like at the bottom of a pool. Give it to your dog to play with. Send it c.o.d. to your mother-in-law (with a dead fish inside it). set it outside with the trash and see how long it takes before someone takes it. I did that with 4 old 13" IBM monitors and 2 old apple printers. I almost had a war in my front yard!

[TechUK]

Try and install Windows 2000 on it, by tweaking the bus rate

[techs]

i have a 486 on a platform in my shop with the folowing sign: This is an example of marketing hype. Computer design reached its ultimate with the 386 processor. Don't be fooled! Experimental operating systems with weird names like "GOOEY" will never work. Also, take out all the unecessary memory sticks! It will save time on boot up as the system will not have to count all that unecessary and expensive ram. Stick with the base 640k. After all, 640k should be enough for anyone. Ask about our affordable 386sx with Dos 2.0. prices starting at about $1000.00.
P.S. business is slow. any ideas?

[Larommi]

Give it to PCChips. I think it would improver their web server!!



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I might rock, but I am not made of stone!

[SavagePenguin]

Do what the <a href="http://totl.net/Eunuch/index.html"> Project EUNUCH</a> guys did. Overclock the smack out of it! They got a 486 working at over 200MHz before the equipment destroyed itself. Check it out
http://totl.net/Eunuch/index.html

[Hippie_Techs]

In our tech room we have on used exclusively as a bookend!

You could tie it to a rope and use it for a boat anchor.

[rb_electronics]

We put ours on PRICEWATCH tm for a few dollars and charge $300.00 a piece to ship !!!

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Wadda you mean I lost all my information !! It has been making that noise for 2 months and working fine..

[Scott Graham]

Mine serve's it's purpose as a boat anchor.

[Shades]

Hey!! I run a Red Hat / FreeBSD linux server off a 486 sx 25!!! they are the perfect system for it - darned lousy PSU is a loud pain in the butt tho. It doesn't run x-win, but i can use it for gateway services - ie a firewall etc...

A 486 dx4 100 does a not too bad workstation! Oh well I guess they are a hunk of junk really when you think about it.

[Taqwus]

Hehe. Here is how I got rid of mine and got some target practice with it also.
Where I live we have a pond and some trees near it with a sling shot hooked to one where one person stands in the bucket and another person jumps on to a rope which causes the other person to be launched into the water (we had a good physics teacher). One day we decided to put things for target practice since the place we where using was about to be destroyed by the Mississippi river which floods everyspring and the tree was allready leaning too much to survive another flood. Well we blew up a lot of old computers take didnt work no more, as well as a few old tv's, vcr's, monitors, and a few maniquens.
We was also using 10 gauge shotguns to shoot them with

[EvilKlown]

Pull out the processor and pry the heatsink and/or fan off of it. Go to the nearest large body of water and see how many times you can skip it along the surface of said water.

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Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

[TrackMan]

i use a 486 dx2 66 as a print and internet server.

now an imac, though, now THAT would make a great fish tank. clear out all the boards, pull out the crt, stick a tank in there, and you got a iAquarium. 5 fruit flavors, let your fish choose the one they love! think different.

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I was going to be a procrastinator, I just never got around to it.

[buffalloman]

I have a couple of 486's on their sides in my kids closet. They use them as a stepladder to hang up their close.

[shook81]

Shoot them with a shotgun. The best way to relax after a long day!

[jvalliere]

One word...

Catapult!!!

btw everyone, this site is toooo funny!!!

Thanks SavagePenguin for sharing it. that made my day.

Originally posted by SavagePenguin:
Do what the <a href="http://totl.net/Eunuch/index.html"> Project EUNUCH</a> guys did. Overclock the smack out of it! They got a 486 working at over 200MHz before the equipment destroyed itself. Check it out
http://totl.net/Eunuch/index.html



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I keep hitting escape...Why am I still here??

[NightVa]

I know...but you need a few parts first:

1)One network Card for the 486
2)A few High Speed cables
3)One networking OS (VMC/OS* should work fine)
4)One stolen government CRAY mainframe

Hook up the old 486 and overclock it too 247Mhz as the Eunuch Project allegdly did (see above post or go to http://totl.net/Eunuch/index.html ).

Turn on the CRAY after the 486 has been running for 3minutes. Run for cover!

Possible outcomes:
A)You discover a new power source that replaces nuclear reactors.

B)You die from the ensuing explosion that mutates everyone in your city into Tickle Me Elmos.

C)The 486 achieves consciousness and begins WWIII and starts manufacturing T-100's that go back in time to kill your mother.

How's that for an answer...
Nathan

* what is VMC/OS? (Virtual Morse Code/Operating System) :-)


[This message has been edited by NightVa (edited September 04, 2000).]

[BreakWindows]

One Word: BattleBots.


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[SA.]

No doubt DX2-66 and above are still not to bad but these shall be history soon. It would be nice to donate these to Museums.

[SA.]

No doubt DX2-66 and above are still not to bad but these shall be history soon. It would be nice to donate these to Museums.

[Nighthand]

I agree with buffalloman. No kids yet, but since my wife is only 5'2", I have one in closet for her to get to top shelf. http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smile.gif

[Nighthand]

Don't destroy them! The government could use the upgrades!

[klenard]

Use it to block up the rear tires of the car that broke down because you where using your car for service calls.

[stupot71]

ROBOWARS get a remote control car kit and a few servos put four wheels on it and enter it in robowars!!

[corelogik]

the one use that im surprised noone has said yet,........ Paperweight.

or rip out all the guts but the drive and the board and use it to plant flowers in your home office.

[Shades]

hehehe corelogic, just one thing - that would make one super heavy paperweight - I think for holding down the newspapers over here when the recyclers collect them from our naturestrip!

[Snock]

I had an old IBM desktop (not a 486, a Pentium 133) once that the motherboard crapped out on. As I was salvaging the parts out of it, I noticed that the funny looking bracket used to hold the 3 1/2" drives might be put to another use...

The drive cage had a bar on top that was offset to the right a bit (looking from the back of the case). The bar attached to the rear of the case to provide support. The whole thing was removable, I took it out and bent the left wall of the cage 90 degrees and screwed an old hard drive to the right wall to provide some weight, thus creating a crude but effective hatchet. Taped some pipe insulation around the handle too.

On the subject of making weaponry out of computer parts, take 3-4 power cables of the same length and fold them in half so that you have all the front ends and back ends together. Starting about 4 inches down from the mass of ends, wrap the cables down to about 4-6 inches from the bottom to leave yourself a good loop to put your wrist through. You've just made yourself a modern variant of the cat-o'-nine-tails.

[sprkymrk]

A hatchet? Never thought of that... In truth I took an old 486 tower and put a Pentium board in it. The outside of the case still said 4/66 so no one wants to use my computer because it would be too slow. I doubt anyone would ever try to steal my Gateway 386/33sx with P-3 guts either...

[gotbyk]

3 words...

<A HREF="http://href="http://www.linuxrouter.org" TARGET=_blank>Linux Router Project!</A>

...or maybe even a high-tech Chia pet.


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[crazyman]

see how far you can OC it.

[crazyman]

see how far you can OC it.

[Ladies Man]

run seti on it

[Gabriel]

Try taking a nice lady.
Sit on the machine
and than have sex on it
the extra vibration from the machine will have an emmidiate affect on you.

[Debug_Fdisk]

what i have done with mine is utilize upnp and it is basicly my lights and power for my house also use it for the watering of the grass...my 5 spares(4 now i used one as target practice) are just sitting around i have heard that fire departments are looking for them for there detectors...has anyone else heard of this?

[ibennetch]

excuse my ignorance, but what is upnp and how do you use it to control your lights and sprinklers?

[SavagePenguin]

Originally posted by Gabriel:
[B]...have sex on it...B]

You can catch a virus that way. Them computers are filled with viruses! I type with latex gloves just to be on the safe side.

[goinpostal]

I have an old desktop and I removed the cover and made a techno-litterbox.

P.S. I hate cats so I leave it plugged in

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[furlong47]

Tie it to your back bumper and see how far you can drag it down the street

[Jgold47]

I'm All for the fish tank idea, but pull the processor and make, a keychain/hoodornament/pendant out of it, and impress everyone with what a badass tech you are

[AnyTwo]

You just stand two of them ol desktops on their sides, add a couple a 2x8's, and ya got yourself some mighty fine shelving!
Also works great with old wide-carriage dot matrix printers if you remove the platen knobs first.

[pga]

silly uses?

dropping one off of a 7 story building onto your wifes head for the insurance money?

A more practical yet less economical thing to do would be to donate them to a local NFP organization. To you they may only be worth -$25, as a tax deduction you could write a 486 off as $500... that's $500 of non-taxable income!

Latur,


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[format c:]

Ahhh gee just give it to a friend who has a 286
Donate it to NASA so they can have parts for the Hubble space telescope ( It is powered by a 486 dx 2 )
Read that in Astronomy I beleive

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[goldmeier]

Take out the fan and toss the rest out a window.