What to do with many ancient PCs?

In exchange for building a PC that will acceptably run cheap home design CAD programs in Windows, my dad will give me a lot of his old computers and parts. That includes two IBM desktops (could be 286, 386, or 486), an AT motherboard with a Pentium or P2 chip and associated hardware, and all the pieces of a maxed-out 486DX PC, among other things. Anyone have any idea how I could put it all to good use?

I'm thinking I could try an arty approach and decorate my room with computer parts hanging on the walls that are actually powered and operating. I might use the more recent AT board with a couple NICs to give me a dedicated linux router.

Could donate them to me.... I love getting old pc parts, and modding them...

donate donate DONATE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or u can hang them thats cool to

folding farm.

simple

part's is part's!! It never hurt's to have spare parts even old spare part's.I myself have thought about building a pc for the wall(the computer as art).Moglenstar is right tho,FOLDING FARM!!!!!!

Fold for the Yatta team.

Start a museum.

Set them on fire for the hardware destruction thread.

I don't think a 286,386,486 would be worth the electricity they use for folding... maybe the P2?

Make Keychains out of the <486 CPUS and junk/donate/recycle the rest. The Pentium 1 and Pentium 2 could definitely do some good folding.

Nexus Realized said:

I don't think a 286,386,486 would be worth the electricity they use for folding... maybe the P2?

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Very true, spend the cash you'd waste on electricity for cancer research.

Those parts really arn't worth anything, just something to toy around with. I used to save all those parts, but I got sick of all the crap laying around...so I sold it all...cheap

Hello

I rebuilt the pcs and give them to my frieds kids. I figure that its a start for them and if they screw it up its not too bad to fix instead of screwing up mom/dads pc and taking hours to fix.

Fordman