Computers+-+Old+Doesn't+Mean+Useless

=Memory Lane:= 1979 Star Trek 1 - Magicam effects team used surplus obsolete SPC-16 industrial minicomputers for camera and miniature motion control 1980 Cosmos - 1/10 of total 13-hour screen time used Magicam SPC-16 camera and miniature motion control 1983-1990 - surplus obsolete DEC PDP-11s used for AATC Air Refueling simulator and Boeing 1990s Fighter simulator servo controllers 1990 - donated surplus PCs used for "Orca Toy" (Marineland) and "Living Seas" (EPCOT) behavioral enrichment controllers 1980-1993 - surplus obsolete Silicon Graphics Iris workstations used for many "Boutique" small CGI (computer animation) shops (including EFILMs) 1986-1993 - old PCs used for EFILM digital film scanner and printer controllers

=We Have a Bunch of These; What Can We Do With Them?= ==

Gateway Dual-Core desktops can run Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit with Office 13, Kurzweil 3000, Dragon Naturally-Speaking, and even Mac OSX "Mavericks" (current version) in a VirtualBox.
=In MHOH and DI, they can run cause-and-effect, PowerPoint Talking Book, IntelliTools, and web-page activities.=

==Lenovo X100e netbooks and the Gateway dual-core desktops can also run all the currently available Adobe Creative Suite software, Microsoft DreamSpark software (free application development software for students), and all currently available free open-source 3D animation, graphics, and audio synthesizer software, including Blender, Audacity, and GIMP, and all free web-based tools and tutorials for Modern Javascript, NodeJS, and HTML 5 for website creation.==

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