What to do with 3 computers?

Well I currently have 3 computers available to play around with and I am trying to think of what I can do with them for some fun. One of them is a laptop with xp and the others are 2 old windows 98 computers. The only thing is I can't give them access to internet and I don't want to have to take them apart. Anyone wanna help me come up with some ideas for doing something with them?

You could take one of the win 98 computers apart for parts.. go to http://instructables.com/ and just look up electricity. There are a bunch of fun things to do with the parts. Or just mess around with the software, install linux, and learn to get good at rooting..

hmm, what if I said they weren't really my computers lol I just have access to them sometimes and I want something to do for when I'm bored lol

But these are good ideas for when I'll have 3 or 4 computers in the fall

ShapeShifters wrote: Well I currently have 3 computers available to play around with and I am trying to think of what I can do with them for some fun. One of them is a laptop with xp and the others are 2 old windows 98 computers. The only thing is I can't give them access to internet and I don't want to have to take them apart. Anyone wanna help me come up with some ideas for doing something with them?

http://www.hellboundhackers.org/challenges/js/js16/index.php ? :D

miniature botnet!!! ^_^

lol like both the above suggestions :P only problem is I can't get internet connection :P

Not like a 4 person bot net would do you any good.

um… What can you do with three old computers without internet…???

…still thinking…

I've got it! You could learn to exploit windows 98! :D

or um… If you asked nicely I guess the person might let you.. Take apart all 3, not all the way. And then use all the parts to put into one of them. first, with one http://www.instructables.com/id/Custom-built-Computer-Monitor/ then.. just take all the parts that can be put with eachother.. like ram, and put them with each other, for a faster computer. then install a new OS, buy a wireless network adapter, and um… Have a new computer..??? Or have a testing computer, or something.

Or just buy a wireless network adapter, and ask nicely to have the owner let you use it as a server.

I don't know.. You could.. build a time machine.. or a teleporter. That'd be cool.

ShapeShifters wrote: lol like both the above suggestions :P only problem is I can't get internet connection :P

You don't need a internet connection for the js16 challenge. (the problem is probably that they are really slow :P)

I really wouldn't know what I should do with 3 old computers. (sell them ?)

pr2008 wrote: I really wouldn't know what I should do with 3 old computers. (sell them ?) No one will buy a Win98 machine ^^ give them away to a friend's little brother or something, or just throw them away. Why not use them to test homemade fireworks/bombs? ;)

Turn the XP machine into a server if you need one, or just setup something vulnerable on it and practise exploiting :)

Lol, wow, I would probably set up a LAN Lounge thing and play games on them against other people. But not crysis, as far as I can tell these computers cant handle it. Just like mine yours and anyone elses that reads this thread. Or that don't read this thread. Exept for the 2 people with the "1337" enough computer that will play it, But don't have any friends to play it with.