9 Apr
1998
9 Apr
'98
10:57 a.m.
Or you could install linux on them and donate them to 3rd world
countries as mail/usenet uucp machines for individual
villages. This is a _useful_ and humane thing to do!
--jmg
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 16:00:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Captain Napalm <spc(a)armigeron.com>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Wirehead Update
It was thus said that the Great Zane H. Healy once stated:
>The other thing I need to do is find uses for the pile of 386 and 486
>boxes in my garage. It's 6 feet wide and 4 feet tall, neatly stacked.
Well, you could install Linux/Beowulf on them and get supercomputer
performance, then rent space on them. Beowulf is clustering software for
Linux developed at NASA and freely available. It's been used in several
other labs with great results (from what I hear).
Check out http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/beowulf/ for more information.
Of course the smartalick answer that came to mind
was to turn them on end,
get some cement, and build a shed useing them instead of bricks :^)
Of course there's always that.
-spc (Or set up a massively parallel web server and rent space out on it)