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What to do with the old computer?

Filed in archive Computing by Elwyn Jenkins on September 7, 2007

So you have upgraded your computer and want to know what to do with the old beast?

What to do with the old computer?


"Creative Uses for "Old" Computers: Here's What You Can Do With Your Used Computer" is a very inventive article outlining what ways you can use your old computer around your "wired" home.

You can read the article for the details but here are the suggested ways you can use your old computer, in short:


  •  Trade it in for a new computer with Hewlett Packard

  •  Donate the old computer to charity

  •  Use your old computer as a print/file server

  •  Listen to tunes from it

  •  Watch TV from it

  •  Create a live weather stationlinks

  •  Store digital photos on it

  •  Create a work station in the kitchen

  •  Designate the living room as the family workstation

  •  Turn it into a workstation for visitors

  •  Set it up solely as a data center

  •  Use it as a live web cam for security purposes

  •  Use it as an experimental computer

  •  Create a mobile computer for your RV, van or boat



Have you other interesting options?







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