Old Computer Ideas

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I have been gifted a few ancient laptops from the stone age (2005-2014). Any ideas on what I can do with them? Are there any modern Linux distros that would run on old hardware like this? I’ll take any suggestions this wonderful community has to offer.

Edit: The laptops are:

HP 2133 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_2133_Mini-Note_PC
Dell Inspiron 1545 https://www.itechguides.com/product-specs/dell-inspiron-1545-specs/
Dell Inspiron 15 3537 https://www.productindetail.com/pn/dell-inspiron-15-3537
Toshiba C55-A5286 https://www.productindetail.com/pn/toshiba-satellite-c55-a-1n4

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our computer still had a floppy drive until around 2016 i think. good times. unfortunately everything we had on floppy was for DOS not windows xp and i was just a kid so i didn’t know how to get DOS working.

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