Put That Old Computer to Good Use

Unless you are forced to rely on it as your main PC, you may be tempted to throw an older computer away, thinking it is useless and obsolete. But don't make that mistake!

Over on Daily Cup of Tech is a great article about twelve useful things you can do with an older PC, that you may be thinking of permanently retiring. All kinds of things from a firewall/router to a file server to a bittorrent box.

So head on over and get some ideas and don't put the snail on the curb just yet. It still has plenty of life left in it.

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Thanks for the tip, Alberto!

Do I own an old snail?

Some people may be a bit confused about what qualifies a computer to be called a snail.

Bob Rankin has a nice amusing little checklist to see if your computer qualifies.

If you answer 'Yes' to anything on his list, but your computer is still usable for normal purposes (web browsing, email, word processing, etc), with recently written software...then you have a snail.

If it's too old to run any recently written software, you have an antique. That is a different class of PC, than snail.

And be sure to read on, because following his checklist, there are some good tips for getting more out of your computer, no matter what its age may be.

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