What's the oldest component in your high-tech system?

[cebek]

If you would call them components, I would say the cat5 and power cords snaking around the back of my desk. On the other side of the backplates it would have to be the unstoppable Seagate 9GB SCSI HDD.

 

[thirdlegstump]

early 90's 3com network card, isa
and an adaptec scsi card from around the same time period. also isa

 

[GT1999]

I'd have to say the floppy. It's from a 286. :Q

 

[Erasmus-X]

Oldest part? Probably the US Robotics modem I bought back in '96 or '97 (can't quite remember exactly when). It started as a 33.6 and was later flash-upgraded to 56k. It's a hardware ISA modem that's been in 3 different systems and it justs keeps on ticking.

 

[jaggrey]

It's between my Zoom 56K PCI Modem (back when they used the Rockwell chipset instead of the Lucent chipset, which of course gets more driver updates than mine, but anyway...), my 3.5 floppy, and my 10 gig Western Digital HDD.

 

[Wiggo100]

On both of mime it's the cases. Both very early 90's. One started as a 386 and the other a 486.
Now runnin' K6-2 500 and K6-3 450+ @ 500.

 

[Mustanggt]

I have a 3.5 floppy that came out of my first 386 system i refuse to upgrade it lol.

 

[mikable]

How about my old combo 3.5/5.25 floppy! That sucker's OLD '91 ish?

My scsi HD is 5 years old it's all of 768MB's running off an old sc875 card I copy ISO's and such to it to save myself costers when burning. heh yea my Burner's old too! no Burn-proof fancy burners here!


My monitor is 6 years old it came from a friends Gateway 2000 (yea back when they were called GW2K) it's the nice sony 17 incher

 

[Need4Speed]

Floppy drive...from my 1992 Tandy 386SX/25

 

[TravisBickle]

probably the air whizzing around the fans... time I opened the window after all these years of wretched computer addiction in a darkened room *cough cough*

 

[Daaavo]

The floppy which I pulled from the Gateway 2000 100MHz Pentium I bought in January 1995. Coincidently, it came with 16 megs of RAM which I sold back to Gateway for $720. I then turned around and bought two 16meg sticks of 60NS memory, locally for $1058.20. I held onto that receipt and just crack up every time I see it.

 

[BigAl3du]

Hmm....SB Live! Everything is brand-news. P4, mobo, GF2 ultra, etc.
Intel gave me an early b-day present, a Fully load 1.5ghz P4 system.

 

[j@cko]

The good old ISA Supra 56k MODEM!

 

[mcbiff]

1. 3.5in Floppy (circa 1997)
2. US Robotics 56k modem (bought as an X2 modem and flash upgraded to v.90)
3. Soundblaster Live! Value (over two years old, aching for a replacement)

 

[esung]

mikable: hehe, we got about the same old stuff in the systems..
I still have a Teac combo drive on my linux box, and an old GW2K 15" Sony monitor on it..

I had couple old IBM SCSI HDs and a DPT2144UW controller that's also about 5 years old...

but the oldest parts I have and it's still working is: 3.5" floppy drive from the 286 days!

 

[StanTheMan]

teac 5.25" Floppy drive, 1.2MB
since my 286 in 1991

 

[Oric]

My keyboard ... 2001 - 1994 = 7 years old. Sieben jahre alt !

 

[alkemyst]

~1993-95:
USR sportster 28.8 now V.90 (for faxing)
LS120 SuperDisc
MS Natural Keyboard
Samsung 17GLsi monitor
OPTI-UPS 650E

Everything is working great!

 

[browndogsarebest]

Floppy (of course) from a junked 486
CTX Monitor circa '95

 

[Davegod75]

my 3comm 3c905b NIC

 

[Daniel]

Definately my floppy drive from a old sony p166.

 

[freeway]

Supra Express 56k modem still kicking just as good as any new 56k modem, followed by my teac floppy.

 

[Mixxen]

Dam since I've had this comp for over 2 years....everything in it is aging...

Abit BH6
Toshiba 4.8x DVD
Floppy
SB Live Value
64MB Ram Stick
Case
Logitech Internet Keyboard