What is the oldest computer that you own that is still functional?

[trenchfoot]

home built intel 200mmx 430 chipset on asus mobo, 3dfx voodoo2 sli, 64 megs edo ram, 2 gig hd, soundblaster64, plex scsi cdrom drive, 2x plex pata burner, microsoft sidewinder js.

win98se and only one app installed - battlezone ver 1.4 by pandemic/activision.

 

[imported_goku]

IBM XT, works excellent, though i'm a bit sad as I'm trying to think of how to put it to use, preferrably online. I know about arcane but I don't know how I'd get the data on there to install it, to fix this issue I plan to get a 5.25" drive.

 

[Xyclone]

My uncle has an Apple II in his attic.

 

[trenchfoot]

Originally posted by: Xyclone
My uncle has an Apple II in his attic.

hey, i got an apple IIe with a custom-installed 500meg hdd, but it doesn't qualify for this thread as it's broke and buried deep behind all my other 'puter junk.

for that matter, i know i got a commodore 64 somewhere in my garage. hmmmmm....i'm might just dig it out and sell it on e-bay. i wonder what it'll fetch?

 

[Nik]

I have a couple 486 laptops in a box that work.

 

[soydios]

1994 Gateway (90MHz Pentium1, massive 1GB hard drive, blazing-fast 2X CD-ROM).

My dad installed Windows95 on it seven years ago or so, before I was really into computers. I wish he'd left Windows3.11 on it. :'(

 

[phisrow]

Jupiter II, 1975

Damn. That sucker is a decade older than I am.

 

[Doctorweir]

Amiga 500 (1987)...still runs like a champ... I think I'll play a round of Zak McKracken on his 20th birthday next year

 

[compuwiz1]

I have a 486 with Windows 3.1, a VGA 2mb "gaming card", Turtle beach sound card, 9600 baud modem, 16mb ram, 256mb hard drive, cd rom, serial mouse, IBM "clicker" keyboard. AT form factor. I crashed it, while trying to play Myst.

 

[I Saw OJ]

My current computer

Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 2000MHz
Display Card NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
Memory 1024MB
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP
Free Disk Space 265.75GB
Display Card Memory 256MB
Display Driver Version 9.1.4.7
DirectX Version 9.0c
Optical Drive DVD
Sound Card SB Audigy 2 ZS Audio [E000]

I know, I know, its old and needs to be upgraded already

 

[BoomerD]

I just gave away my old NEC 8086 with amber monochrome monitor. Don't remember the processor speed, but it was lightning fast...:roll: IIRC, it was maxed on ram, (8 kb 16 pin (?) simms (?) ) A friend upgraded it in about 1991 or 92 to use a 20 mb HDD, had 2 X 5-1/4" floppy drives, NO 3-1/2". Ran Dos 3.1 OS I STILL have an old Panasonic Panaprinter dto matix printer in the junk closet somewhere. Haven't been able to find a printer ribbon for it since about 98...yet I STILL have the dammed thing.

Edot...forgot...I still have a fully functional Sony Vaio original Pentium 200 (with MMX! ) Came with a 4.3 Gb HDD and a 2 mb all-in-wonder video card, which I "upgraded" with a Monster VoodooII 8Mb add-on card. WOO-HOO! QuakeII was REALLY rockin with that card!

 

[nageov3t]

nothing too impressive... a laptop that I bought in my sophomore year of college (2000). 533MHz PC and a whopping 6GB hard drive I was a fool to buy that... I used it for the first semester I had it and then it just fell to the wayside.

I had a 100MHz box w/ 8MB ram and a 14.4 modem, but I disassembles the entire thing and broke all the parts to see how they worked last year.

 

[Colt45]

Does embedded stuff count?

probably the computer in my car. Runs on a motorola 6803. Well actually some hotrodded hitachi chip based on it, with a few extra instructions IIRC. 6303?
128 bytes of RAM
8k of PROM

woot. powar house

although i suppose the control logic in my microwave is older.
circa 1980 panasonic

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Colt45
Does embedded stuff count?

probably the computer in my car. Runs on a motorola 6803. Well actually some hotrodded hitachi chip based on it, with a few extra instructions IIRC. 6303?
128 bytes of RAM
8k of PROM

woot. powar house

although i suppose the control logic in my microwave is older.
circa 1980 panasonic

No, micro controllers don't count. I've got a handful of 8051's that I'm actively using and I don't think they count either. I have a 486/66 the *probably* still functions, if you plug it in, but I'll only count the Celeron 466 to be honest.

 

[chcarnage]

Oldest in use: PowerMac G3/450 Mhz/512 MB RAM/32 MB VRAM, 1999

But my father still stores some old functional Apple hardware:
two Apple // GS (2.8 Mhz, 256 KB RAM), 1986
one Mac Classic (8 Mhz, 1 MB RAM), 1990

I want to tinker with them just when I write about them

 

[lyssword]

amd duron 1.1 ghz with 9600pro gfx card and 256 mb pc133

 

[Colt45]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Colt45
Does embedded stuff count?

probably the computer in my car. Runs on a motorola 6803. Well actually some hotrodded hitachi chip based on it, with a few extra instructions IIRC. 6303?
128 bytes of RAM
8k of PROM

woot. powar house

although i suppose the control logic in my microwave is older.
circa 1980 panasonic

No, micro controllers don't count. I've got a handful of 8051's that I'm actively using and I don't think they count either. I have a 486/66 the *probably* still functions, if you plug it in, but I'll only count the Celeron 466 to be honest.

I recall having some sort of old embedded junk here that runs a 8088 or 8086.. does that count?

forget what it was though. some hp test thing. i think i broke it though.

what are you doing with your 8051's?

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Colt45

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Colt45
Does embedded stuff count?

probably the computer in my car. Runs on a motorola 6803. Well actually some hotrodded hitachi chip based on it, with a few extra instructions IIRC. 6303?
128 bytes of RAM
8k of PROM

woot. powar house

although i suppose the control logic in my microwave is older.
circa 1980 panasonic

No, micro controllers don't count. I've got a handful of 8051's that I'm actively using and I don't think they count either. I have a 486/66 the *probably* still functions, if you plug it in, but I'll only count the Celeron 466 to be honest.

I recall having some sort of old embedded junk here that runs a 8088 or 8086.. does that count?

forget what it was though. some hp test thing. i think i broke it though.

what are you doing with your 8051's?

Mostly using them for a lab class -- currently building a PWM circuit w/ feedback to drive a DC motor at a constant speed regardless or torque on the shaft.

 

[FoBoT]

celeron 333, 96 MB RAM , 4.3 GB hard drive, monochrome VGA monitor

 

[rudder]

Atari 800 FTW!

 

[Tobolo]

486DX2 with Packard Bell Simulated OS and Windows 3.1 keeping it real in the background. Windows 3.11 Still the best windows ever made.

 

[JDMnAR1]

I still have an old TI 99/4A, complete with expansion box loaded with 5.25" floppy, cassette tape interface, speech synthesizer and I don't remember what else. Talk about fast - nothing can hang with that 3.3MHz CPU!

 

[WarDemon666]

I got an MMX-266 MHZ running the debian as my server 32 megs of ram!


I use it every day and its pretty useful! Its my print server, web server and ftp server!

 

[j00fek]

500mhz k62 in dads garage. it runs our all data software for fixing cars.

 

[Ayah]

A 486, dunno anything else bout it.