Hi everybody!
I have sitting on my desk an old iMac with Snow Leopard, Core2Duo and 1GB of RAM.
MacPorts does not work anymore (I fear some problem with SSL certs).
It is unsable to surf the web but still work pretty well with its outdated iLife suite.
I have a gcc 4.x and the developer toolkit.
X11 Server works but it seems pretty slow to do run it as a remote display
The simplest application could be as a static http server, but seems a bit too much power hungry for this.
Another ideas is to recompile some embedded software like sqlite3 and use it as a "server database via ssh"... some other nice ideas?
Then I read where you can install El Capitan on these systems and it will do a microcode upgrade. There's a free download on Apple's site (sorry, don't have the URL handy). I downloaded it, ran it, but it still wouldn't install right.
But the u-code upgrade did allow me to install Mavericks on it whereas before that wouldn't work. So it's a reasonable system for someone to use again and I have it listed on eBay. Probably won't get much for it, and it's a lot of trouble to take pictures, fiddle with eBay listings, etc., but at least it will get used and not just thrown in the trash. I hate throwing away a system that's usable. I'd give it to someone I knew who could use it but everyone I asked already has a computer.