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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[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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[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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[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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[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!

[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