How to revive an old PC
 

ONE OF MY INTERESTS is in recycling and reusing older computers. If a business has a room full of fairly recently-pensioned-off kit, I point them at ComputerAid, but it wants recent kit, preferably by the van-full, not the odd knackered-old one-off. I regularly take such doorstops that clients are discarding, upgrade them with some marginally newer bits, put a lightweight OS and apps on them and give them to impoverished - or just tightwad - mates. With the right choice of software, even a five-year-old computer can be a fast, responsive machine with bags of life left in it.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40532

Boring article?

Old PCs only remind the high price you paid for, the older they get the more they have had you spent. To forget that is to buy a new one :)

The article was nice, with some ideas
i would prefer to seee some benchmarks of old pc using win2k & linux...

office and internet usage wise it'll be pretty quick:)

I'll send him my x286, let's see if he can revive it :d .

doesn't run Win2000, would suggest PIII 833 or AMD Athlon 900 at least for Win2K

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2&N=2032280010

With gasoline at $3.50/gallon, 100 Gallons will buy you a new PC instead of fooling around something old.

A PC built in 1999/2000 cost over $1000. Without inflation factored in, PC is dirt cheap now; spend your time to earn more money instead. :), there is nothing left to save.

Chances are;
Hard drive is ready to go at anytime
Running a 20GB hard drive, trying to decide which photos to delete ..... erase mother's photos, keep the girlfriends, of course :D
Power supply may be fire hazard
DVD burner? Not in the market when the PC was built