So you walk into a new client's office and he

[Metanis]

hands you his file server and tells you it's not working!

You know someone is going to do this right?

 

[HCHTech]

This reminds me of getting Doom to run on various devices as some kind of hacker/maker right of passage. I'll bet this app would run on one of those new snapdragon pcs, though. That might be an interesting and more reasonable setup.

 

[britechguy]

You know someone is going to do this right?

Of course, because there's one born every minute. They're also going to be their own support tech, that's for sure!

I do find this sort of thing fascinating as a sort of thought exercise/fun hack, but anyone who thinks that a smartphone could ever serve viably in this role, well . . .

 

[Blues]

If it allowed you to setup a network of old devices and use them as one large drive then this would be a cool fun things for tech people though not terribly practical in the mass market. The technology to combine system could but using it on junk hardware is more of a fun project for the enthusiast crowd. Still a nifty thing but yeah phones aren't something I would try and turn into that but the software does have options on computers which would allow for more practical uses.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Hmm...technically almost cool and for a 1/2 a second interesting...but...practical? Nah!

 

[britechguy]

.but...practical? Nah!

This ^. That's the crux of the matter. Tool to task, as I'm wont to say.