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I have an old Toshiba Satelite lappy sitting in my closet. The screen doesn't work on it, but the base still works perfectly. Pentium 166MHz proc, 64MB of RAM, and a 5GB HD. What should I do with this thing? Maybe upgrade the HD and use it as a file server?
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Bring it to my store.. we will set it up as a "This is what a really old Computer was"..
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Boat anchor ? :D

Can't really think of a good use.
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A P166? Are you kidding? Toss it.
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Put it on e-bay, you would be shocked at what people will pay for spare parts.
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see how many blasts with a 12 gauge it can take........lol
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Okay, I have another junker I found in the closet. I forgot I even had these parts:

Intel Celeron 700MHz PGA370 proc
ASUS CUW-AM HP OEM board
384MB PC-100 RAM
10GB Laptop HD (using converter)
GeForce MX400 PCI vid card

What to use it for?
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Post by Pugsley »

CarPuter? in the case of the laptop... if it has a parallel port i can hook a 4x40 LCD to it and make a mp3 player out of it. The other isnt too shabby.. a slow HTPC... a MAME box?
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