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Re-purpose old PC's?

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  • 20-05-2016 2:52pm
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    my3cents
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    I'm due a run to the tip (sorry recycling centre) to get rid of a whole load of old tech but I have a couple of old very small HP Citrix clients that I feel must have a use. The best one is a HP t5270 500Mhz 512MB with iirc a 512MB soild state drive normal I/O including VGA, ||, serial, ethernet, 8 USB2 etc and I feel there must be something useful I can do with it, so any ideas?


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    KenjiOdo
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    Might have a value as antiques rather than to repurpose..


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    my3cents
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    I know what you mean. I don't normally hang on to stuff but these are boxes not much bigger than a router with a hole lot more power. That reminds me I did mean to look for a PC version of WRT.


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    ED E
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    Spose they'd run PFSense if you could install a 2nd nic.


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    PeterTheEighth
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    Maybe install Kali Linux on them and use them as Internet (only) workstations for a library? They would be struggling to run Windows 7.


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    PropJoe10
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    my3cents wrote: »
    I'm due a run to the tip (sorry recycling centre) to get rid of a whole load of old tech but I have a couple of old very small HP Citrix clients that I feel must have a use. The best one is a HP t5270 500Mhz 512MB with iirc a 512MB soild state drive normal I/O including VGA, ||, serial, ethernet, 8 USB2 etc and I feel there must be something useful I can do with it, so any ideas?

    You could use that quite nicely as a Linux box capable of web browsing. Might need another stick of RAM but other than that, there's lots you could do with that processor and SSD.


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