Someone just gave me a computer...

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It's a hunk of shit, but maybe I can use it for something in the studio???


Help me out guys - I know it doesn't have the juice to be a dedicated gigasampler machine - maybe it can be good for something, but what?


Pentium 100
32/ram
400 meg HD

I have an extra soundcard laying around.

Any ideas? Or should I send it the way of the Dodo?
 
Good for surfing the internet, word processing, playing DOOM, midi sequencing or as a boat anchor.
 
400 MB is about enough to record one long, 24bit 96khz, high-quality burb ... :D
 
Almost fast enough for an MP3 server, but having only a 400 meg drive proably makes it a waste of time.

At my day job I've established the following minimum for a general purpose (Windows 98) workstation - Pentium 200, 64 meg RAM, 1.6 gig hard drive. Of which 800 meg is taken up by our standard Win 98 software load - Windows, Office, a few of our own apps. I think anything much below that probably isn't worth wasting time on. With XP you need to double everything.


There might be a charity somewhere that would like it.
 
You could turn it into a file/web/ftp/younameit-server and publish your songs online yourself if you have a decent internet connection.
It would be great for such things but I'm not sure if you're into that.
I have a P75/32mb with an archive for my band online containing lots of mp3s and pictures that spans over 500 megabytes. We use it primarily for ourselves, just the people in the band but with 10 members it's a great way to distribute whatever we want to share.

In other words. It's not worthless but it may be to you.
 
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