On Wed, 10 May 2000, George Rachor wrote:
  Assumeing you could get them connected what nobel
project could this mass
 of diversified machines be commissioned to do?  Obviously they are way too
 slow to do Seti@home (Wouldn't it be a kick if a really old machine found
 something significant?) but surely there could be some project that could
 be engineered to be useful? 
That would make a great exhibit at VCF 4.0.  A noble project if I ever saw
one!
  Does this even make sense? 
Yes!  Putting them up on the net via telnet would be like a cheap geek
amusement park.
Sellam