Your oldest (working) computer that you own.

KNTRO · Unread post by **KNTRO** » 2015-10-01, 13:28

Trippynet wrote:I think you're a tad out with the dates there. Both the AMD Sempron and the GeForce 6600 were released in 2004. Still 11 years old mind you!

Of course! The motherboard, the power source and the case are from 2000. Then I have updated/replaced some other components. Do you really thought of 2GB RAM —for instance— in 2000?

If interested, I can copy & paste full tech specs of this rubble tonight.

By the way, the case is minitower ATX form actually, not midtower.

UPDATED

Here's the specs:

Just a note: The CPU is a Sempron 2000, but it's overclocked to 2.8 GHz, and, for some reason, it's identified as Sempron 2800+.

Moonraker · Unread post by **Moonraker** » 2015-10-04, 17:45

My oldest is a commodore Amiga 500 computer.In fact i have 2 of them with bundled software.

opera1217b1863 · Unread post by **opera1217b1863** » 2015-10-05, 16:12

Not trying to claim a record here...

I sometimes fetch my Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook B2175.
Mobile Celeron, 256MB RAM, 60GB HDD, touch screen.
Runs winXP-SP3.

Gary5 · Unread post by **Gary5** » 2015-10-07, 16:19

The computer I'm using right now is an IBM T60p. It's something like 8 years old, was popular with photographers for its 15" 1600x1200 IPS screen. I still use it every day at my job tethered to my phone for personal use.

ThunderclawShocktrix · Unread post by **ThunderclawShocktrix** » 2015-11-18, 14:43

My oldest is a Macintosh perfroma575, not a PC, 36MB ram 33mhz Motorola 68040L cpu, Originally a 256mb SCSI HDD which I recently replaced with a 1 GB drive, also as a floppy drive and 2x SCSI internal CDrom + an external 100MB SCSI Iomega ZIP drive. the os is mac system 7.5.1 which IMHO is way ahead of windows 3.1 which is what PCs would have had at the time.

Mercury · Unread post by **Mercury** » 2015-11-24, 04:39

An NEC Ready 9700 series, purchased circa 1997.
166MHz Pentium MMX processor (OC'd to 200MHz!

)
128MB RAM (originally 32MB)
15GB hard drive (originally 3GB)
Onboard ATI 3D Rage II video
Windows 98SE (originally Windows 95)

Fun thing about it is it was one of the first systems to come with on-board USB ports... but the pre-installed OS didn't have driver support for them.

Years later I eventually tracked down the update for Win95 that enables USB, but it was somehow incompatible and just caused it to bluescreen on startup. Win98 sorted out all that.

Still had it running until about 2010, when I boxed it and put it in storage (can't bear to throw it away). As far as I know, I just need to plug it in and it'll still work.

Thrawn · Unread post by **Thrawn** » 2015-11-24, 05:18

You could use it to play old DOS games! The legacy 3D realms site has a bunch of them for free or cheap.

sindi · Unread post by **sindi** » 2017-02-10, 03:54

Oldest desktop - 2003 HP server, newest 2007 MSI which I will use to compile.

1995?-2006 laptops.
120MHz Compaq with two bases, one with midi port, runs Basiclinux in about 72MB RAM, P54C
And many PII and PIII 233MHz - 1100 MHz, various P4 P-M P4-M.
I gave away most but still have 233, 266, 400, 500, 800, 1000, 1100, etc.

DELL Latitude CP M233XT 256MB RAM with Wary Puppy Linux and movgrab/mplayer for youtube videos.
Anything from about 2000 or later with 512MB can run Puppy Linux with Pale Moon.
Newest working laptop in use - a 2008 Acer netbook with a whopping 1.5GB RAM.

Pale Moon 27.1 as compiled by Walter Dnes uses a lot less CPU than 27.03 so should play Youtube
(Flash) on any PIII 800MHz or faster, with 512MB RAM. Seamonkey uses too much RAM, and Firefox
has abandoned older hardware.

I have shared 15-20 older laptops with neighbor kids, with Puppy Linux. The slowest
so far was 266MHz with 256MB RAM.
They will accept them with no sound, bad keyboards or bad screens,
as long as they have a recent browser and will play Youtube.

kizo07 · Unread post by **kizo07** » 2017-02-10, 10:57

My first portable pc

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T2001 · Unread post by **T2001** » 2017-02-10, 17:32

Oldest working (well, working last time I used it at least, been stored in the shed for a few years now though) PC I have is an Amstrad CPC 464, vintage 1986/7.

CPU: Zilog Z80 4MHz
RAM: 64 Kb
OS: AMSDOS
HD: N/A... Although, it did come with a built in Magnetic Tape Drive

Monitor: CTM640 Colour Monitor (160×200 pixels with 16 colours)

If I recall correctly, I also have a few games on magnetic tape that were working last I checked, such as Harrier Attack, Grand Prix Simulator, Oh Mummy and Roland in the Caves. Think I also had a Word Processor cassette tape too (probably Tasword 464)

kizo07 · Unread post by **kizo07** » 2017-02-10, 18:27

Amstrad CPC 464 ( 'Joystick') computers was a bit before my 'pc time', but it was one of most popular comps for years and had a very special sound if I remember right.

also curios a:
IBM 5100 First Portable Computer 1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m54rKlErwA
A single integrated unit provided the keyboard, five-inch CRT display, tape drive, processor, several hundred kibibytes of read only memory containing system software, up to 64 KiB of RAM and a 16-bit processor

weighed about 55 lb (25 kg)
Prices ranged from $11,000 (16k model) to $20,000 (64k)

Pleasureseeker · Unread post by **Pleasureseeker** » 2017-02-10, 21:51

Found a Sinclair ZX80 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80) with a 16K RAM pack in a cupboard the other day. Was very surprised that it fired up TBH

Unfortunately, I didn't find a working cassette recorder to try out the tapes that were with it.

The oldest computer I have in regular use is a seriously pimped-out Amiga 4000T with a PowerPC 604 accelerator and other assorted bits and bobs added on. I had it re-capped a couple of years ago as the caps and battery were getting a bit on the dodgy side...

John connor · Unread post by **John connor** » 2017-02-11, 10:46

Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop circa 2006. Specs: 1.6 GHZ Pentium M. 1GB of RAM, 60 GB HDD, 128 MB vid card.

I had a Dell Dimension 4600 that I upgraded everything including the CPU, but I threw it in the trash about 5 years ago. Specs on that was a Pentium 3 GHZ CPU, 500 GB HDD, GT6800, FSP PSU, 4GB Crucial Ballistix RAM, NEC DVD/RW.

Thehandyman1957 · Unread post by **Thehandyman1957** » 2017-02-12, 01:02

kizo07 wrote:Amstrad CPC 464 ( 'Joystick') computers was a bit before my 'pc time', but it was one of most popular comps for years and had a very special sound if I remember right.

also curios a:
IBM 5100 First Portable Computer 1977

And it only weighs 50 pounds.

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