> For me, I've done my share of dumpster diving in my time so I have > lots of older machines sitting in various closets which are waiting to
That reminds me... The furnace project's computer died this week (the pc, not the board I made). So I grabbed the next-slowest computer from the pile and swapped the hard drives. No luck, dead power supply. Took the PS out of the old computer, did some metalwork to make it fit, MB power cables too short! So, the *next* slowest computer came off the pile. Swap HD again, install power tap cable, adjust software (the 486 timing used calibrated busy loops; the pentium timing uses the TSC), and it's off and running again. Now I have a pentium furnace.
