How OLD is your OLDEST Computer that you have right now?
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View Poll Results: How OLD is your OLDEST computer that you have right now? (currently working)
the moniter im looking at is at least ten yrs old works real nice to. i have a few older itms around the place 7yrs is too young for the end on the poll.
8yr old X terminal.
my hub looks pretty old, works a charm.
a couple of the moniters around the place
my HP laserjet III must be getting on....
Tandy1000-- :-) It was my grandmas and I learned to navigate DOS at three years old just so i could play Jump Joe on it...yes, i am a geek.
Funniest part is that the mobo has several chips that have the AMD logo with "Advanced Micro Devices" and "Intel" printed right next to each other...
but yeah, two floppy drives and i even have a DOS 1.0 disk for it. Tell me that's not killer...i also have 2 joysticks for it and the keyboard somewhere
Originally posted by caged the moniter im looking at is at least ten yrs old works real nice to. i have a few older itms around the place 7yrs is too young for the end on the poll.
8yr old X terminal.
my hub looks pretty old, works a charm.
I've got a few of those! Both the monitors and the hub!
My SO really really really HATES the fact that I'll bring home the PCs that my office throws away (I still have a bunch of P90s I need to set up lol)
BUT, my gateway is an old p166 and one of my file servers is a p133 with Slack 9.1 on it...so if you use linux, there's a lot of free equipment out there to play with
Current working system is an IBM XT 8088, 4.77MHz with 256k onboard and two 256k memory cards and a small exe that extends base memory up to the 762k mark. 10M Hdd with bad sectors all over. I have original disks of DOS2.0.
Next is a 386-33 Compaq Deskpro XE, has freebsd on it but I don't remember the root password so I need to reinstall something else. Going to use an old 8 bit boca card for a terminal server for my routers, have three cisco and a couple lucent.
Also have a sun sparcstation II pulled from a dumpster that needs a new RTC chip then I'll probably run slack for alpha on it.
My oldest one would be an Apple IIc. It's one of the thin white ones with the handle on the back and black-and-green monitor. I have all the manuals, a joystick, and a few games. (The most notable one would be Zork II, but there's a cool hidden one you can get to when you put the Print Shop floppy in label side down).
My computer MUST be more than 7 years old!
I dont use it much since its slow but it was first a 386, then a 486 and finally updated to a Pentium Pro 180 Mhz running Win 95 then 98 now! Must somehow 8-9 years old if not more ;-)
386sx 16 mhz w/ math co-processor, 10 mb of ram(because 8 of that is on an ISA memory expansion card I ripped out of a dead 386...)(somebody shelled out $100 for that coprocessor!?!)I actually ran it to compute fractals awhile back. fractals which take my current computer ~15 seconds, I let run for 4 hrs straight just to see it...
still runs, although the keyboard broke( I thought those old things don't break, but, sure enough, the arrow keys stopped responding - I guess too much commander keen), the hd develops about 1 bad sector per day it's on, and the fans make funny noises...don't forget that the monitor went caput,as well.
does that count? I turned it on about 6 mths ago, but only because of these problems it developed, I haven't turned it on since.
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