Under what purposes to use the machine of level of the first Pentium?

Question

Iron

It is worth it, a fully working Cyrix 6x86MX is gathering dust, 32 MB of RAM, 4 MB on the video card, about 7 GB of hard (actually 10, but mom does not see more than 7).
I can’t figure out how to use it more interestingly and which axis to put on it (now w98).

Answer 1

Remove the heatsink from the processor, attach the cup holder,
write a program using floating point math in a loop
, and enjoy always warm coffee!

Answer 2

As the owner of a NAS on Cel 600, I can say that it makes no sense to use such pieces of iron for purposes other than entertainment (old games, etc.). Old hardware, according to current criteria, has an absolutely inadequate ratio of performance to energy consumption - any motherboard based on Atom, C7, or even more so ARM will do such a configuration as yours. Of course, it’s funny at first to tinker with such junk, I understand, but it should work and be useful, but it’s too old for that.

Answer 3

You can take out all the insides, cut holes in the body and plant ficuses in it.

Answer 4

The terminal to the server or a regular PC is more powerful. Performance will contrast sharply with the external parameters of the laptop. Yes, and it will impress friends (especially if a powerful PC is really powerful).

Answer 5

Install Windows 98, donate somewhere to charity

Answer 6

Home router.

Answer 7

Try using it as a router/proxy based on Deli linux or Damn Small Linux.
Or just a caching DNS server. In general, there are many options, and one of the distributions listed above is suitable for everyone.

Answer 8

I made gateways to the Internet based on iptables on these, for this I used RH7.3 or ASPLinux 7.3 (this is actually RH with a corrected Russian layout)

Answer 9

Play Warcraft 2 and the first Grand Theft Auto :)

Answer 10

typewriter or heater =)

Answer 11

Donate to the museum. From what I understand, the Cyrix stone is quite rare.