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Old computers are useful
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 3:27 am
by TmEE co.(TM)
As long as the cable TV modem is not being disturbed, this link should last for a while :
http://82.131.23.39/
That place will grow and grow, and eventually gets a domain name too hehehee...

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 5:00 am
by Chilly Willy
It's a Pentium system... nothing special. I thought it would be a C64 or something.

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 5:58 am
by HardWareMan
This computer could be more useful if it run on FreeBSD.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 10:02 am
by TmEE co.(TM)
FreeBSD does not run DOS games, not on such a system, not with playable speed
Chilly Willy wrote:It's a Pentium system... nothing special. I thought it would be a C64 or something.

C64 is too puny for that

(though the project one guy did is pretty cool, it helped on some areas in my own projects)
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:32 am
by HardWareMan
TmEE co.(TM) wrote:FreeBSD does not run DOS games, not on such a system, not with playable speed

In topic context I meant web services, not games.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:25 pm
by TmEE co.(TM)
For web services alone then yes it is a better choice for sure.
Signed up for a dynamic DNS service and now there's less nubmers and more text :
http://tiido.rocketcat.info
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 1:32 pm
by LocalH
I was half expecting this to be you having built an Ethernet interface for the MD and running a small webserver on one

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 2:57 pm
by TmEE co.(TM)
I can easily attach a 3Com NIC and do stuff
I have registered a domain now :
http://www.tmeeco.eu
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:46 am
by ob1
Oooh ... naughty !