Looking for ideas....

Are the machines in the picture yours? I see a couple of really cool aesthetic 80s-90s cases.

>>59698255
Why would someone pay you for computing power when they could pay Amazon, and have, y'know, a professionally-managed environment with modern hardware?

I wouldn't know what to do with ALL of them, but I'd probably set aside a half dozen or so to tinker around with. Other than that, you could set a couple up as emulation machines, seedboxes, media servers, anything not compute intensive, really. But you've probably had all these ideas already.

Make a botnet

Would some hipsters buy such cases?

Play with alternative cryptocurrenties? STORJ, LBRY, maybe one if those things takes off.

internet cafe

>>59698255
Are you really thinking about generating income while burning energy with C2Ds?

>>59698255
Give them back, Jamal

>>59698255
>I've been selling some off here and there but then I got to thinking about distributed computing and possibly being paid to run some kind of project. None of the paid distributed computing services I've looked at seem very appealing.
old computers are power inefficient, not worth.

>>59698255

The datacenters that do this are paying like 2 cents per kWh on power. Good luck competing.

There's no way you can get decent perf/watt out of a bunch of ancient shitboxes.

>>59698255
Sell them to poorfag anons.

>>59698255
The ratio of watt-hours to computations done would be terrible. It would be cheaper to just buy a new computer.

>>59698255
replace core 2 duos with $5 chink xeons
sell to clueless people as pro workstations

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>>59698255
Create a non-profit organization with the following agenda:

>maintain a free technology center for poor children
>teach computer technology to poor children
>provide computers to poor children

You will collect grant money up front and throughout operations (provided you really work for this -- you don't even have to do a good job, just put it out there as a sort of DIY thing with volunteer teachers from the community and colleges etc).

>mfw also have access to dozens of older machines

>>59709316
This, easy money.