Originally Posted by Mattk
^Me! Well, at least the 3.5' variety. I have an old Compaq Presario sitting in my bedroom, sans monitor, so essentially useless. My dad kept it because it had some stuff on it he wanted to back up, and it just hasn't been disposed of since. It was high-tech when he bought the machine back in 1998. The 2x DVD combo drive was top of the range back then. Now it's just obsolete.
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I also have an old Compaq with 3.5. It's connected to my LAN, basically to seed and download from this site 24x7
. Of course the original 10GB hard disk is almost useless today, so I plugged an external 500GB drive. With a light version of XP and 512 kb RAM it is sometimes faster than my new notebook with Core duo 2, a respectable SATA drive and 2GB RAM, thanks to the magic of Vista !!
Don't recycle: re-use!
