Oldest CPU you are running now???

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: Ratman6161
In a virtual machine, the guest operating system does not have to be supported by the host's hardware. I.E. Even if you can't run Windows 95/98 on that hardware, you can still run it on a VM running on that machine. I do this all the time in situations where I need the ancient OS for some reason. Example: I have an ancient line printer unit where 10 years ago a developer hard coded a driver for it into a Power Builder App. That application is still in use and so is the printer but the driver piece of the application wont run on anything later than Windows 98 - but win 98 can't be installed on any machine I still have. So I Have a Win 98 VM and the whole setup works just fine.

Thank you, Ratman, that's exactly the information I was looking trying to find out. How hard is setting up a VM, and does it need to be reinstalled on every boot, like it seems like it would?

 

[chuckm]

266 Mhz PII that I'm on right now, just for internet, word, basic stuff. Haven't spent one dime on it, made from junkers that people have given to me.

 

[cubsftw]

P3 1.2 GHz Tualatin running win2k3 server; and an old ibm thinkpad r31 with a 1.13GHz P3-M that's collecting dust right now (since its intel 830m graphics card only likes to work with WinXP Pro and I didn't feel like spending more money to upgrade the RAM so that it could comfortably run SP2).

I had a 10 year old HP with a 133MHz Pentium and 16MB of EDO RAM that I gave away a year ago (it ran C&C Red Alert and Flight Sim 5.1 just fine).

 

[jaqie]

Originally posted by: jaqie
Dual PIII coppermine 933Mhz, in an intel STL2 mobo.
I am working on getting a PII-350 running for my authentic DOS computer.

Oh, wait! I forgot about my Libretto 70CT! It's a micronotebook with a P120MMX CPU... I use it with DOS 6.22, a 40GB notebook drive, and several extenders as an MP3 player.

 

[Drsignguy]

Oh how I remember the Ol dos days! I still have dos 6.0 on floppy. Jaqie, you are making me feel old! Quit it!

 

[spdfreak]

Athlon Slot A 900 on an old SD11 MB in an internet/mp3 machine in my shop. Running win98se.

 

[PandaBear]

Pentium III 700Mhz at Inlaw's place, used weekly
Pentium III 1GHz at my parent's place, VNC everyday
Celeron 2.456 (or whatever around that freq) , used daily
Pentium M 1.2GHz laptop, used daily


Athlon XP 1600+, main machine, the fastest I have, used daily. It feels faster than my work PC that is P4 3.4GHz. Why? It is running Windows 2000 with barely any bloated software, rather than the corporate mandate software packages on XP.

I could only imagine you need a Core 2 Duo to achieve about the same in Vista as my XP1600+ in Win 2000.

 

[MetaDFF]

Celeron 400A Slot 1 undervolted to 1.6 V (default 2.0 V) with 256 MB of RAM running IPCOP off a 256 MB CF card.
Typical CPU usage is ipcop is < 5 % and is rock solid as a NAT + firewall compared to the flaky off the shelf consumer router I used to have.

 

[secretanchitman]

sadly...its my opteron 170 desktop system...compared to my htpc and my dads macbook pro.

 

[kb3edk]

Slowest in use is a 1 GHz PIII Mobile in my Compaq N600c lappy. I use its handy dandy serial port to console into Cisco routers once every week or two. One of these days Cisco will join the 21st century and make the Console ports on them USB

Slowest not in use is a 500 MHz PIII in a Dell Dimension I gutted for parts for my dad's POS desktop a few weeks ago. It just needs a new HDD and RAM and then it will be up and running again just fine... but running what, idk :roll:

BTW, I'm not surprised at all to see so many of the "slowest" procs here be in laptops... they're too versatile to chuck away sometimes.

 

[lucky9]

A VM once setup (like a normal installation) is just 'turned on' each time you want to use it.

Recently taken out of regular service was a 1gig Celeron Slockett-based Intel board with 384MB of RAM. IDE went out. I remember using the ISA slots for awhile.....

 

[lucky9]

double post

 

[lucky9]

Duh!

 

[kzrssk]

Was running a Pentium III 1 GHz with 512 MB PC133 as a server, but threw that out for a Sempron 2800 w/1 GB RAM that had been my main system. So the Sempy is the oldest one now.

EDIT: Oh crap, I totally forgot about the laptop that I'm using right now to post. It's got a Pentium M 1.6 GHz Banias-core. This one's the oldest.

 

[Acanthus]

Intel Pentium-D 3.0ghz

I use it for DHCP and routing services.

 

[craftech]

In my daughter's room there is a completely functioning computer with an FIC VA503+ Socket 7 motherboard and a Pentium MMX 233 overclocked to 250 running Windows 98SE with the original CTX 14 inch monitor (NEC CRT tube). Has the original 9GB WD hard drive too.

Good for the internet and word processing. Won't die.
The ATI Rage 128 graphics card with it's built in hardware Mpeg 2 decoder plays DVDs flawlessly.

John

 

[n7]

Opteron 165 or Pentium M 750.

I'm not sure which is "older".

 

[ajemm]

The oldest one I use daily is the T5250 Core 2 Duo in my laptop. The oldest working one I own is my XP-M 2600+.

 

[Raduque]

Most of you guys got me beat. My oldest CPU in daily use is an AXP2500+ Barton core. Oldest CPU I have that still works is a Celeron 1.1ghz.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

XP 2100+ t-bred in a Compaq notebook I bought back in late '02

 

[ther00kie16]

xp 1700. still have original pentium chips (66mhz and 75mhz) just sitting there as junk since they run windows 3.0 and windows 95.

 

[TSCrv]

Ahh, how about this, I have a single and a dual 200mhz Pentium Pro routing box. Original fans (re-lubed with some royal purple.) Both have 64-128mb worth of 72-pin memory, and some 6ishGB seagate hard drives (with SeaShield ROFL)

Current uptime on the single cpu, 436 days as of now. The dual has the exact same setup as the single, every now and again ill fire it up and do a (manual) failover to as preperation for the single to die. Ive been expecting one of them to die 3 years ago.

Can anyone beat that for things that are IN PRODUCTION?

 

[smopoim86]

p2 400, using it as a router with pfsense

 

[abs0lut3]

PowerPC G4 857Mhz on my Powerbook G4 Titanium
I also have a Willamette sock 478 at my friend's house somewhere and
a P4 2.2Ghz Northwood that my family use from time to time.

 

[evolucion8]

I have a Pentium 3@1GHz based on the Coppermine core, it belongs to my brother in law and has 512MB of PC100 RAM running Windows XP SP2, soon I will install SP3 on it.