Your oldest piece of hardware?

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What is your oldest piece of hardware and does it have any story behind it?

I have had my packard bell keyboard since 1996. It was my mates when he got his pc at the same time, i got a flat keyboard but some of the keys would stick so i didnt get on with it at all. I did a swap with my mate and have had it ever since.

13 years on its in 100% working condition, i have refused to buy another maybe just to see how manky it can get. Its taken a beating and is still going strong, coffee, beer, vodka redbull...Nothing has stopped it.

Long life my Packard Bell keyboard (picture maybe later)
 
iPod cable?
I've had it scince my first ipod (iPod mini) and its still going strong, even though i've been through about 5 iPods since I first got this cabe. Never really appealed to me to change it to one of the newer ones I've got with the new iPods, its not broke, so why fix it. That would mean reaching into the back of my iMac and pulling out a cable and putting in another. Time better spent making a coffee or something.
 
My laptop, got it back in 2003 and it's functioning more as a paperweight than anything else with regular BSOD due to the collossal amount of dust it's inhaled in it's life. I have it propped up on post it note-pads with a fan running air underneath it so it lasts more than 45 mins lol.
 
i scrapped at load of old hardware out about a year ago (pentium 3 pc parts, being the short answer :D) but i do keep an old 2 GHz Celeron chip (only 1 core, remember those :D) so thats my oldest part but im not sure how old
 
I have a 1.2meg 5.25inch floppy drive, but its not actually installed. (It does still work though), Thats pretty old. An original IBM PS/2 keyboard great feel, but not USB so its sitting in the cupboard :(.

In terms of actually installed in my PC, I still have my first 1.44mb 3.5inch floppy, and its still installed.
 
The oldest piece of hardware in my current PC is probably my speakers, which are about 5 years old I think and were bought for the princely sum of £8.22 before disappearing off the face of the internet. Even all the other external stuff (1TB drive, 500GB drive, 8GB USB stick, mouse, monitor, 2GB SD card, GameCube controller adapter, headphones, keyboard, etc.) are at most 3 years old.
 
I have an Intellimouse optical i have had for god knows how long. I have tried replacing many times but nothing seems to be as good.
 
Corasik said:
I have a 1.2meg 5.25inch floppy drive, but its not actually installed. (It does still work though), Thats pretty old. An original IBM PS/2 keyboard great feel, but not USB so its sitting in the cupboard :(.
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I've got a working C64 with 1541 floppy drive that dates back to the late 80's but it ain't in my PC so I guess it doesn't count.

I have just (last week) removed my oldest bit of kit, a more than 10yr old Soundblaster Live! that I've replaced with an X-Fi.
 
Mitsubishi Apricot MS540 Without the screen

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Must have been bought in the mid nineties as I remember playing the original Command and Conquer on it.

Still in daily use running 12-18 hours per day as a Linux Smoothwall box.


Three years ago I threw my perfectly working Compaq 386s in a skip. It dated to 1990/1991. Wish I hadn't now :(
 
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EffBee said:
Three years ago I threw my perfectly working Compaq 386s in a skip. It dated to 1990/1991. Wish I hadn't now :(
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:eek::eek::eek:

You binned a working 386? Man, seems like a tragedy. What type of 386 was it?

Just seems like a tragedy 'cause I used to use 'em. We used to play allnighter LAN Doom at my mates office and we all used to run for the DX100 first and the SX last. Ahhh, happy days.
 
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erm my sega which i got in 92 i think.... other than that my 2nd pc which i got in 93 which booted up last year was breath taking it still had that awsome turbo mode!
 
Oldest hardware I have is my ZX81 from 1981. Still works :D

As for my PC equipment, I sold most of it when I bought my laptop 10 months ago,
although I still have an old AMD K6 based PC from 10 years ago, all working.
 
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