[SOLVED] Test Computer or Door Stop?

[newtusmaximus]

I have an old pentium 75 desktop. No USB or LAN  But CD Rom and Floppy A drive  However Soundblaster 16 - superb sound card.  Running on Puppy Linux 1.5 with boot floppy.  Can't remember how much RAM  . Bought nearly 20 years ago and cost a fortune; shelved over the Millennium Bug scare.  Not tested recently, but sad to part with it.   Was thinking of trying to get a PCI LAN card and use as a sound centre???

[Coastie]

... My advice is make it a door stop or find a person or organization that collects old hardware. 

Thanks guys. Probably is every bit of 20 years old. It was retired for a computer that could run Windows 98 because it couldn't. 

Is any good for parts or backup drive? Not that I know how to use it for a backup drive.   

[avj]

From the stats listed i would say the computer is at least 20 yrs old. I don't know of any linux distros that could run on it except maybe DSL and even that is probably unlikely.  Only 8mb of ram means it is probably 486 to original pentium  processor. In my opinion unless you just have a lot of time to waste it is probably not worth the effort. Most original pentium based pc's in my experience, could only upgrade the ram to about 64megs, finding 20 year old 72 pin simms that work may also be a challenge.
My advice is make it a door stop or find a person or organization that collects old hardware. 

[Wirezfree]

I think with only 8MB of ram you are pushing it for LL
Possibly the CPU may also be an issue.?, Disk space.?

You may get one of the niche ultra compact distros on it..??

[Jerry]

Moved to 'Other'

[Coastie]

I found my first computer hiding in a closet. Not sure how old it is but it is very old. It came with DOS then Windows 3.1 was added later. It only has an inputs for a phone lines for dial up internet access which I no longer use. (Probably there is a 56K modem buried in the closet too.) No USB ports. It has a CD player but computer will only boot from either A or C drive. Could not figure out how to set it to boot from D drive in BIOS if it can. Also it does not even recognize a live Linux DVD in it when in Windows. I was thinking about using it for a distro test machine but can't figure out how to install Linux on it. It also has one of those large soft floppy disk drives.

Not sure what all this means but BIOS shows:

Base memory:          640K
Extended memory: 7168K
Other memory:         384K
Total memory:       8,192K

Drive C: 386 Mb

Is this computer usable for a distro test computer or something else or worth donating to a computer club than fixes up old computers for charity or is it just a door stop? 
 
 (Not sure this is correct place for this so won't mind at all it is moved to correct place)