One Pentium 166
1 Shitty VGA display
1 shitty old keyboard
1 Ipex mouse
2 or 3 cans of Coca-cola (or whatever other caffinated breverage you prefer)
1 Phillips screwdriver
1 Stereo
1 copy of Winamp on a CD "somewhere"
1 RCA to minijack (headphones type) patch cable

Step 1: Make sure the Coke is in the fridge and is ready
Step 2: Drag the PC adn peripherals upstairs
Step 3: Realise that your PC has a dead soundcard in it. Replace it with your SB16.
Step 4: Try and figure out how to get this install of Windows 95 to boot that you were sure worked fine. Have some caffiene when you're stuck.
Step 5: Try and find and then install your copy of Winamp on that CD.
Step 6: Install Winamp
Step 7: Fiddle around with your equipment and try and get the audio quality as good as possible
Step 8: Grab that other Coke, and a MacAddict
Step 9: Sit down and listen to some nice music. By now you've deserved it.

This morning was fun...very fun. This afternoon i'm fixing up all my old PCs....

PC's aren't good for much really. I find they run a few things that maybe you can't run on a Mac...but other than that, everything most folks think you can do on a PC but not on a Mac are in fact possible. With the mergence of Mac OS X, it's been Apple's savoir because all the cool UNIX stuff now comes to Mac..so we get to play with everything.

I have an extra P233MMX sitting here that I am pondering as to what I am going to do with it. I might make a quick and dirty hack with it and shove it and an ATX Power Supply in a little box and use it as a small backup server.

I'm more happy myself that I get to replace my Western Digital Caviar drive with 2 Seagagte 7200RPM Barracudas. The Western Digital brand is the worst you can buy...they are slow and so picky. I've seen so many die in my day it's a bad sign if you believe in omens. Running Xp, the hard disk thrashes like it's been running for a week and is totaly using the swap space. And that's right after boot. So moving to a SCSI system (and serving goodies at the same time to loving MLA members) is a good thing.

The one Barracuda goes in the 8600 and the 68 Pin one goes in the PC. The PC's name brand funny enough is "V8" which I am not sure if it relates to the popular drink or the car engine. Myself, I like the drink so it's gonna be V8 the drink. The weather here is now storms all the time so any case painting is put off untill I find a garage or an odd day with sunshine.

Be glad that you have a whole bunch of cool stuff to play around with at your house

and have fun!

After classes finish this fall I am going to build a flac/mp3/aac player. Wether I'll finish it or not remains to be seen.

i need to find a use for it or i'm gonna have to get rid of it. i've got too many other pentiums laying around as it is.

any ideas?

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any ideas?

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If I open my window all the bugs will get in…That's just one more reason to use a Mac!
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PMs: 6100/G3/233, 6214CD, 5400/120, 7100/80av, 9500/G3/300
PB 5300ce
SuperMac C600 180, 240

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go to www.koha.org, find the sourceforge link, download and burn the bootable KOHACD ISO, and run it as a KOHA server. (especially helpful if you actually *have* a library which might need KOHA

or run NT4 and an old version of Offic eon it. Older machines can be especially useful as little computers on which to prepare quickie office documents, or great for use in the garage, or if cleaned well, and maybe the CPU hidden, you could use it in a kitchen... (Reciepe database maybe?)

I'd rather stick to paper. Last thing I need is to be baking and put my gooey hands all over the monitor & keyboard/mouse. That would kill it quick enough, not to mention the insane heat from the ovena nd other elements.

damned P-100 servers *walks off shaking head*

CCC

Actually, Having a computer in the kitchen, IMHO wouldn't really be exactly like that. For one, you *should* have these thigns called washclothes and towels in your kitchen. Then it might come to your mind that there is these keyboards that are all membrane-bound (you'd have less accuracy and stuff when typing, but "yeah"

Then there's the thought that you are a pretty stupid person if you really would put your computer *right* next to your oven. But then again, you also might not be in a house with a decent sized kitchen (like ours) (IIRC, you live in an apartment, which would make me understand what your problem is with having a computer int he kitchen.

The Lightning Stalker

Performa 631CD, 7.5.5
LC III Mail Server
Q610
Q650

6400/180 40/1.6G/512k L2/enet/video-in/TV
7600/120 '604/233, 80/1.2G & 4G, 9.2.2 (Main Mac)

Actually, what with the overntrays and the glayven, having a computer under the oven wouldn't be that much a bad idea (like, trays under the whole thing, where you usually store pans...)

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Stay tuned for details on how to make an mp3 player out of a 68k!

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Wait! I know - a PPC601 upgrade card, a NuBus sound card, and a AAUI transceiver to facilitate network transfer.

Edited by - The Lightning Stalker on 31 Oct 2003 22:40:03

Ingredients:

1 LC630 with full '040, 52 megs of RAM, 8x or faster CD-ROM
1 small Apple display, or Apple Presentation System
1 AppleDesign Keyboard
1 ADB Mouse
1 can of Coke
1 Stereo
1 Patch cable
1 copy of MpegDec
1 Mac magazine

Method:

Step 1: Make sure the Coke is in the fridge
Step 2: Bring your Mac upstairs and set it up
Step 3: Start the Mac. Insert a floppy containing MpegDec and copy it to your HD
Step 4: Insert a CD containing MP3s. Use the playlist editor to set up your playlist
Step 5: Open MpegDec. Drag your playlist into the MpegDec window.
Step 6: Turn up the volume
Step 7: Sit back, relax, grab the Coke and the Mac mag, and listen to some nice music.

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