What's the oldest system or component you have?

[esc]

486 but not with me now. it's somewhere in my dad's office. next to that a p-133 which is also in my dad's office. then everything else is fairly new. i also have this weird optical mouse which looked so so old, like early 90's stuff. i don't know where i got it from though.

 

[Understudy]

A 4X CD-ROM drive from my 486 bought in April 1995. Up until a few weeks ago I was still using the 15 inch monitor and Sound Blaster 16 sound card.

Before that computer we had what was probably an 8088, but I couldn't say for certain. It was so slow, when playing King's Quest 1 you could actually see a picture being drawn to the screen - it would draw the lines, then slowly fill in the colours...

 

[J_Tee]

Hmm let's see, nothing in my computer is even 6 months old.

But for the other 2 machines on the network:
Probably the Dell 266 Machine including the monitor is close to being old, but looks very very new.
And also, my sister has a P3 500 machine, very simple for Wordprocessing, etc, but has an old 14" monitor, 3 gig harddrive and very very old keyboard. Planning to retire this one day Once i move my current machine to her.

 

[NICKCARTER]

My oldest part used on everyday basis is a Sun workstation chassi from the middle of the 80´s.
Nowadays it is filled up with a k6-2 500 Wd 6.4 gb.
But I still have a Commodore Vic 20 from 70.....something....started it for a year ago, still working!!!!
I also have 2 working Amiga 500 that my kids used every day until about 3 years ago.

 

[acidvoodoo]

i still have rig with a SB16, one SB32 speaker (other one blew), and a 1.7gb hard drive in. all the other components of the pc got upgraded and those got left behind. but they still all work fine!

 

[goog]

I've upgraded systems twice in just over a year, the oldest thing left now is probably my Microsoft IntelliMouse Trackball at just over 2 yrs.
I think my desk is circa Oct 98.

I do have older comps passed on to family members, and some old worthless parts in boxes though.

 

[John P]

I'm still using the first keyboard I ever bought on my main machine (Athlon XP 1700), a clicky key Lexmark keyboard that came with my Zeos 386SX, has a 1984 date on the bottom.

 

[ed21x]

i still have an Apple IIe, waay before them shiny Macintoshes came out =P havn't tested it though, but i'm sure it still works