Constructive uses for an old OS 9 PowerPC?

For some reason I lugged an olde Mac home from work thinking I could use it for something useful... ideas anyone? Already have an old PC as an MP3 server in the kitchen so would need to do something else!

giginger

Dedicated firewall?

3stripe

lol that's hardcore!

giginger

I'm all about the hardcore!

3stripe

haha what about as a light! "Choose from one of 32,000 hues, sit back and relax as you are bathed in colour..."

lech

Dedicated Web/Ftp server or something :D

3stripe

Hmmm interesting... maybe it could become a web server but have a crazy crappy AI program installed on it, so it would be some kinda online agony aunt.... ; like http://start.csail.mit.edu/

3stripe

i should add that my brain is fried right now due to last night's drinking session so not talking much sense right now.

3stripe

lol it's not even os9, its 7.5.... dinosaur!

Minisweeper

powerpc....which ones are they? I assume they're not the traditional iMacs?

3stripe

http://www.vintagemacmuseum.com/images/840av.jpg

lech

Hmmm, actually, if i recall correctly, I'm not entirely sure you could turn it into a fully qualified Web Server, at least not easily. As for the rest, it's quite doable. OS9 wasn't exactly "friendly" for setting up services.

Minisweeper

it's os7.5 lech :)

lech

AGH! ok, the situation is possibly even worse then.

enderateros

you could install just Darwin, not the whole os x, and then run a server

LoOkOuT

Before you got to bed place it above your bedroom door, carefully balancing it on a custom made trap door. Devise some rigging and voila... a security device. During the day, use it as a doorstop. Now if you had an original Mac, an iMac or a Studio Display, then there's always this: http://www.theapplecollection.com/Collection/MacAquarium/index.shtml

3stripe

Seriously I need an option now to get rid of this damn thing... I don't want to bin it if at all possible. 1. Ebay it. Might get 99p. 2. Charity Shop. Could anyone love it? 3. Security device. Yup I like that one. 4. Extract all the gold off the circuits and earn myself a few pence if lucky.