My parents have an old Compaq Presario SR1950NX that works perfectly fine, but hasn’t been used in at least 15 years. Obviously I can’t connect it to the internet with Windows XP, but before I recycle it I thought I’d see if anyone had any cool ideas for how I could use it. I’m sure I could find Linux distro that would work, but I don’t really need another desktop PC in the house.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    “Obviously I can’t connect it to the internet with Windows XP”

    Why not? I was on the Internet starting in 1988.

    Probably full of unpatched security holes, but you COULD…

    Old software here:

    http://www.oldversion.com/

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      14 days ago

      No websites will work, some there are new SSL encryption thingies which the old browsers don’t know. And new browsers surely won’t run on this PC.