Which PC Device has stayed with you the longest?

[Bulldog7000]

5.25" Floppy from 1991. Granted, it is in museum mode right now(not hooked up to anything).

BDOG

 

[Moonbeam]

Probably my implant.

 

[ProviaFan]

My 4.3GB 5,400 RPM Western Digital hard drive, 1.44MB floppy drive, Compaq PS/2 keyboard, and RAM from my first homebrew computer that I built ~5 years ago (a 233MHz Cyrix which was promptly upgraded to a 400MHz AMD K6-2 when I found out how slow and how terribly unstable Cyrix processors were/are).

The one thing I would never give up is this keyboard. For some reason, maybe just because it's what I'm used to, I prefer to have an Enter key that takes up a single row, with a decent sized Backslash key above it, and a nice big Backspace key above the \ key. Of course, this is probably just because my first computing experiences were on IBM PS/2 computers with DOS and Windows 3.11, where the \ was critically important, and also because I make a lot of typos and find the larger Backspace key very useful.

 

[Electrode]

I've got a Mitsumi AT switch keyboard (the big, heavy ones that make a lot of noise) from 1995 hooked up to this rig. Still works like the day I bought it, although it is now the color of a chain smoker's teeth.

Up until about 3 weeks ago, I was using an HP Deskjet 660C printer that I bought at the same time as the keyboard, but it has since ceased to function. 2 months ago, my Acer 4X CD-ROM drive (also 1995) called it quits.

 

[ScottyB]

My mouse, it is like 6 years old.

 

[Anubis]

a lynksys NIC from 3 years ago

 

[ElFenix]

i've got a dell keyboard that doesn't have windows keys on it its so old

 

[rml]

does mousepad count?

 

[CraigRT]

SMC 10mbit NIC for my cable. still in use. 1996

 

[Glitchny]

epson printer... like 5-6 years i think
and my logitech optical mouse.. like 3 years

glitch

 

[dethman]

probably my floppy, been around the block a few times.

 

[SuperSix]

My Teac 8x24 SCSI CDR...

My stepfather is still using my old Asus P2B-F, running a 1GHz P-III @ 133 MHz FSB

 

[brtspears2]

Probally my SB Live value. No need to upgrade, not like its sounding any better.

 

[Supermercado]

The majority of my computer. I didn't get a system of my own (that was worth anything; I had a 166MHz something or other, but I don't use any of those parts anymore) until I came to college. Out of that system, this is what remains of when I originally bought it: monitor, keyboard, speakers, case, floppy, DVD-ROM, sound card, NIC, 128 MB RAM (added a lot since), power supply, processor, motherboard. I guess that's about it. It will be another few years before I start to really collect older hardware that's still in use.

 

[NFS4]

MS Natural Keyboard circa 1999. Thank you Value America!!

 

[Freejack2]

My Altec Lansing ACS45.1's.

They still sound good and I've never had the motivation to upgrade to surround speakers.

There is a possibility it's my floppy drive though. I know it's quite old, just don't know how old though.

 

[Rastus]

On my main rig.

Mouse -- 1992
Keyboard -- Don't know, I use pre-Windows keyboards only, prefer IBM 'clicky' keyboards that I find at yard sales.
Floppy -- Don't know.
Motherboard -- Asus T2P4, bought in December 1996. Been overclocked since then. Now with K6-2 300 @333.

I had a newer rig, but my soon to be ex-wife took it.

 

[LordMaul]

Probably an old Packard Bell 15" monitor. :Q Still works.

 

[FuZoR]

14" Monitor from like 4-5 years ago.

It's sad i had two recent monitors that crapped out on me and that old one is still running like a champ.

 

[Sukhoi]

IBM Model M keyboard produced November 20th, 1989.

 

[classy]

My Voodoo 3 stayed with me the longest. I still have it too.

 

[DoNotDisturb]

floppy drive and this 10GB seagate hd.

 

[LiQiCE]

In terms of stuff I still use, my InWin Q500 case, 3.5" Mitsumi Floppy drive, and 3Com 3C905TX (no a or b, just the original!) are all from the computer I built the summer before my freshman year in college (1997!). But somewhere in my closet in my parent's house I still have all the parts of my various computers dating back to around 1992 or 1993. (Even one of those old 5 1/4" floppy drives and a Colorado Jumbo 250 Tape backup!)

 

[kt]

Originally posted by: tenchim

Originally posted by: vegetation
3.5" floppy drive from 89.

Haha, same exact thing here, including the year.

Same here.. except mine was from 92.

 

[KokomoGST]

circa 1994 Mitsui IBM style softspring big@$$ keyboard. They definitely don't make em like they used to.
It's survived orange juice from my freshman roommate and three completely overhauled systems.

My Benwin speakers come a close second as they were purchased 6 months afterward... still pretty damn good as part of a 2.1 system.