Once upon a time a computer was something expensive. Now we're throwing out computers that could still run rings round a CDC 7600, the supercomputer of my youth. Talking with Chris Yeardley after dinner and discovered that I had at least 20 computers, not counting motherboards, in and around my office, most of them functional and a number belong to Chris. Chris suggested that we should write an article 101 uses for a dead computer , so I brought out a handful of laptops and we started playing around:
Of course, a name like that wouldn't go unused for long, and indeed it's the title of a book by Mat Wahlstrom. But we only found that out later.