any silly uses for a 486

[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.

[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.


[This message has been edited by gotbyk (edited September 23, 2000).]

[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.