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danfoshizzle
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Old laptop

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What to do with an old 1.3ghz laptop I found in my cellar apart from bin it?

has 512 ram and a 40 gig hard drive
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Re: Old laptop

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parallel or serial? floppy?

I use my 2001 laptop for use with my 1980s puters.. such as with my atari 800 to send disks over serial etc.

other uses - door stop, dns server, controller thing, frisby... erm. and im sure there are others ;-)
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too big for a door stop lol

I like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMhZ8I_Z ... r_embedded
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that's cool. like it

i recently replaced the ccfl bulb in this laptop from 2006. £2 for the part. hours of hassle to get it in.. mostly putting the reflector bits back together. however. all is good and a nice hardware learning experience. new lease of life!

[edit] £2 as apposed to expensive replacement lcd
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Use it as a Linux box?
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Its currently running kubuntu, but not really upto the task lol
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try something more lightweight like xfce ?
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I still have an old IBM (last gen) Celeron 1.X Ghz TXX around. Runs XP/Linux OK still. I kept it cuz it was the precursor to the first Lenova's and the last of the IBM laptops. Its pretty skinny and it has a little light which you can turn on to illuminate the keyboard; in addition to having a legacy serial port on it that I use with Cisco switches/routers still. When I test some older serial RS-232 stuff it's still easier to work with this (even JTAG stuff) than it is with a virtual usb to serial device.
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danfoshizzle wrote:Its currently running kubuntu, but not really upto the task lol
Take out the guts and canabalise a nice little joggler and fit inside to make a real nasty looking joggler workstation :D
Try damm small linux if it had cd drive
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Gonna try debian puppy, should run nice and has access to ubuntu packages
Fullscreen squeezeplay windows, server 2003, foshiz mini v1 and v2, (and a few broken builds) :P so far.....
more to come!!

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ok so old laptop is now running debian puppy, (btw laptop is now named bub) and its ok, but still looking for other ideas?
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What is the screen size? Could always dismantle it, rotate the screen so it is on top of the keyboard, add a touch layer (stylus only unless you want to spend £££, I'm afraid), put Android on it and then mount it on a wall or a table :-)
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I thought of this myself, would mount it inside the wall though, only problem is the graphics chipset is hardly compatible with anything lol
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You can start to automate your home Dan or turn the laptop into a weather station (if you are into that stuff?).
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