So, I just got 9 random PCs from the 90s-early 2000s What

>>56413605

Use their combined computing power to hack the Gibson.

install gentoo

>>56413682
Already have

>>56413605
Take all of the best parts and make a retro vidya machine. Make a sleeper in one of them. Throw the rest away.

>>56413605
just throw them away. that's the most useless generation of PCs currently available.

>>56413792
Are those emulator-os better than plain Windows XP + emus?

>>56413605
Part out the broken ones and clean up the rest, really curious about the beige P4 in the middle, looks like a socket 423 box

>>56413913
Theres 3 of them, identical specs
They're 478 though

>>56413605
Remove the brackets and shit.

Build a customs case.

why the hell dont they make desktop cases anymore. i would love to have the goddamn computer on the desk rather than under it so i can get to the usb ports, the card reader and cdrom

Rice out a 98 gaming rig.

>>56413605
Retro DOS gaming machines.

>>56414040
you'd take a 386/486 for that, not a p4. i don't even know if you can run DOS games on a P4 without an emulator

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>>56414000
>why the hell dont they make desktop cases anymore

>>56413682
came here to post this

>>56413605

Retro gaming station
IRC only machine
Run oddball OSs natively like OS/2, NT 3.51, BeOS one per machine

Recycle into metal, wires, plastic, PCB.

>>56413605
If they are all working, and you have some friends interested, set up the computers for something like a Doom death match LAN party, or simply a party with all the computers playing DOS games of the ages.

>>56413682
This desu

>>56416452
Genius, gotta do that
Should i install 98 on all the machines? Or does XP + dosbox suffice?

>>56414040
>>56414082
An early pentium 4 is an ideal win98 machine

>>56416560
98SE
Make sure none of them have more than 512MB RAM or there could be problems

>>56416560
98 anon, 98. Shhh... Don't ask anymore questions.

>>56413862
>XP

Get 98.

>>56416643
You can fix the RAM problem, it's pretty easy desu

>>56416629
Yeah, it's fast as fuck.

You can actually sell some of those parts on ebay for some decent change. Keep the ram, mobos, cpus and recycle the rest. Neckbeard old timers are always looking for random parts to keep their old mail servers and shit running.

>>56413605
Whats in them? If you have anything exceptional on your hands i would be willing to buy it off of you. I have a fetish for 90s hardware.

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UNIX Beowulf cluster? I'm running one it's kinda neat

>>56417038
What software can you use with it?

>>56417050
>What software can you use with it?
Rendering and hash cracking runs real nice concidering old computers

>>56413950
Lame, S423 boxes are too hard to come by anymore.

That Celeron desktop might be worth rebuilding if it's got all the shit in it still, however.

Do they even have Cat5 Ethernet or do you have to use a 756Kb modem?

>>56413605
You can get decent money in recycling 478 pc's sicr they use a lot of rare materials.

Keep that black one with the AGP slot and upgrade it with a top tier GPU and RAM of that era, and do some windows XP gaming.

The rest of those look useless as fuck, so, maybe scrap one and make a sleeper PC?

>>56417392
>they use a lot of rare materials.
shitty leadless solder and aluminum are rare materials now?