Cool new things for old computers to do..

[dmahalko@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dale Mahalko)]

I was wondering if anyone ever considered trying some novel new things to
reuse all these 'old' computers and put them to some use elsewhere with
current systems...
 
One idea I think would be partticularly interesting is using these old
machines in parrellel to render 3D images for Macs and PCs. Write custom
software for an Apple II,II+,IIe, or IIc that would replace the ROMs Apple
had for them, plus a card to network them all together, and set them up as
computational slaves to a Mac or PC running the rendering program.. sure,
the speed wouldn't be too great with just three or four machines, but what
about a wall of fifty or a hundred Apple IIs? :) 
 
Something like that would be interesting to try...
unfortunately I don't have the programming (or the math) background, so
this ain't something I would be able to do.
Anyone wanna try? ;-)
 
-Dale Mahalko