Turning my old PC into a backup?

To answer the question:
Does it have an ethernet card in it? You could transfer files off of it via local sharing or through something like Skydrive or Dropbox. Other than that, if it has CD burner in it, you could try burning a CD with the files on it.

On an unrelated note:
Have you ever considered turning it into NAS (Network Attached Storage)? As long as it meets the minimum requirements, turning an old junker into NAS is a great way to reuse it. FreeNAS

It’s so cheap to by 1Tb drives now ($99.00 or less) and then a SATA-to-USB 2.0 dock.

Do you really want the PC to do anything?

Unless it has a huge hard disk drive, it would be of little help.
If it has a huge IDE (ATAPI) drive you could take that disk, install it in an external housing and use that external drive to backup your files. That is better than messing with an old piece of crap computer.

Is it a desktop?

If so just install the old hard drive in the new one and format it. It will save a lot of electricity.

Or do what I would do and give the computer to a poor kid that needs one.

@aanuszek1 I can’t really set up a network. Our internet gets unplugged every night. control freak mother.

@pdworkin The computer doesn’t have a usb port and it’s too old to install one.

@the100thmonkey I want it to run something with a gui but not have programs like word or excel so it has space to store suff.

@Dr_Lawrence It’s not huge, but it would work to backup music and photos etc.

@johnpowell The one I use is a laptop, the one i want to use as a backup is a desktop. We don’t have poor kids around here.

@XOIIO I feel your pain.

Does it have a CD Burner? You could always burn a CD with files on it.

Do you have optometrists?

@pdworkin: You would probably need a parallel to usb adapter/dock, and I don’t think those are as common.

Your present computer has a USB port, has it not? I assumed you would finally allow the Win 95 machine to die a peaceful death.

@aanuszek1 It does, but it doesn’t accept disks that ive burnt. (not sure why, the drive is the right speed
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@johnpowell Why would I need one?

@pdworkin I was going to fry it, but I decided not to. I’m not going to leave it to die, I want to repurpose it.

Definitely look into FreeNAS.

Because you are blind if you can’t find a person that is poor and would be helped by having a free computer.

oooohhh snap

@johnpowell Anyone poor around here wouldn’t need or be able to use a computer.

@aanuszek1 it needs to boot froma CD so I can’t do it.

Well the mouse connection on the motherboard broke so it was useless. I just fisished smashing it, later I’ll check for anything thats not broken to salvage. Although you can barely tell it was a computer, it’s almost round now.

Maybe I’ll keep it around as a punching bag.