[plug] Recycled machines

[Paul Antoine]

Indeed... I designed a 4 layer PCB on a 486 at 33Mhz... and booted/compiled 
Linux .99 kernels... soooo very long ago :-)

P.

Chris Caston wrote:
>> Reuse beats recycle, true. But a 486?! I find that hard to believe.
>> Even if you could find a use for it, the hard disks and power supplies 
>> would be on their last legs.
> 
> Well I remember playing Doom, Star Wars Rebel Assault, Return to Zork, 
> various Sierra games, using Grolliers Encylopedia, doing home work  and 
> browsing the web and newsgroups on a 386.