Old Hardware

[SpeedKing]

A simple question - What old hardware do you still have in your Main computer?

For those of you who class 6 month old components as old - old as in pre 2k at least

 

[SilentZero]

None....the hardware in my main rig is about 3 months old. With exception to the sata cables I used....they are new, but had them laying around from a previous build.

 

[Jeff7]

- Floppy drive
- Maybe a few fans, and possibly some screws
- keyboard

 

[Richard98]

2940U2W SCSI card
Floppy Drive

 

[n0cmonkey]

It depends on which one is my main one...

 

[DeeKnow]

my 20GB HD is about 4 years old... IIRC that was the largest you could buy in those days... well, unless you were willing to spend 'obscene' amounts...

 

[Insane3D]

Nothing...in any of my systems...in fact, I'm totally floppy free now that I made a custom XP CD.

I do have a working Commodore64 with about three boxes of games on 5 1/2" floppies... :Q:Q

 

[3chordcharlie]

I still have a working 12meg voodoo-2 card (circa 1998) in my main machine (dual boot w/ 98se). I managed to find enough drivers for XP to stop it from crashing the system most of the time, and I can reboot and fire up NFS2 (and, um, 3, and 4, and um... 5) any time i want.

 

[mikecel79]

Originally posted by: Richard98
2940U2W SCSI card
Floppy Drive

Same here.

 

[DKlein]

I don't know the name, but I have a 9GB hard drive from the PIII days.

 

[Lonyo]

"In" - none, I did a total new build a couple of years ago.
I use a Dell monitor and keyboard from 1999/1998 though on my main machine, and the Dell they came from is still in service as a "work" machine.

Been through about 3 or 4 floppy drives, (kept breaking), but the first one was bought new.

 

[Davegod]

floppy
40gb hdd (now as secondary though)
cdrom
dvd player/CD-RW combo drive (think I got it pre-2000, not certain).

 

[CraigRT]

IN my PC?
maybe the NIC
that's it
outside my PC, my keyboard.. trusty old Logitech
thats it.

 

[vshah]

my sister's "main" pc is a pentium 90 from 1994, 64mb of ram, #9 video card, 1gb hard drive...she just uses it for word processing/web

i use it for starcraft lan games

-Vivan

 

[Wolfsraider]

easy a sblive value card...from 1998 lol although its moving to the older computer as this mobo has better sound.

 

[Oyeve]

Oldest thing in my main PC is an Adaptec 29160N Ultra160 SCSI card, and that is only for my DLT backup device. Its about 3-4 years old.

 

[Tostada]

I have a fairly old SBLive!, an Adaptec 19160, two Atlas 10KII's, an Ultrastar 18LZX, a Lite-On 24X CD-RW and a a WinTV-Go capture card all still in my machine.

I did have two original 1994-1995 Matrox Millennium cards running extra monitors until I found a nice dual-head PCI GeForce4 MX 440 to run my side LCD panels.

I guess my Pioneer 2X DVD burner is getting pretty old, too.

 

[SpeedKing]

Mine is a 3Dfx Voodoo - Diamond Monster 3D 4MB PCI
my Voodoo 3 and 2 have long since died, but my original voodoo is still goin strong
Good for Glide games but not much else

 

[eldorado99]

the oldest things in my computer are, my case (bought it with a $3000 PII-266), the SB Live!, 8 year old floppy, 2 six year old fans (from photocopiers), and a 4 year old hauppauge wintv tuner.

 

[high]

both rigs have extremely high end new gear...oldest piece of hardware is my 120gb maxtor 8mb that I bought mid September

 

[Grumpy1]

A 230 MB Fujitsu MO Drive and an 8 year old Gateway Anykey keyboard


The Grump

 

[SSibalNom]

my case is like 5 years old now, an Inwin... PSU has been changed

 

[tyipengr]

My floppy drive is like super duper old. It came with my first computer back in 1991. Old school heavy as hell TEAC 3.5 floppy drive in old-style funky beige. Funny thing is that there are so many types of beige/white nowadays that it doesn't look too bad in my Antec 835 case. I am also sure that this drive isn't going to break anytime soon, I am not asking alot of it. Used in once since I graduated from college and I don't think I used it even once during college, no...I used it twice in college to transfer some DSP assembly code.

 

[Corporate Thug]

none

 

[Nohr]

Probably my Lite-On 24/10/40x burner. Got it a couple years ago back when it was ~$85 at newegg.