Old Hardware

El Grif · 24 Apr 2006 at 23:40

Whats the oldest piece of hardware you own? It can be anything the more ancient the better

Here is mine:

one on the left is a HP 644MB SCSI Hdd, the one on the right is a modern 80Gb drive for comparsion

Monstermunch · 25 Apr 2006 at 08:06

How about this then.... At the weekend helped my parents clean out their loft and found an old DX66 complete with monitor keyboard & speakers!

Pyrosoft · 25 Apr 2006 at 09:08

Although not realy worth much in the brag stakes...an Amdtrad 1640 is about the oldest hardware lying about.

I also used to have a VR headset hanging about the place gathering dust, one of the ones from back in the Windows 3.1 days, resolution of 100x60...
I never did get it going.

Lagmeister · 25 Apr 2006 at 09:38

A Philips Console Videopac G7000, the controllers rust

squiffy · 25 Apr 2006 at 10:15

5.25" full height floppy drives, 5.25" full height ESDI 20MB hard discs, and had a computer with a paper tape reader/puncher!

Stupido · 25 Apr 2006 at 18:30

Lagmeister said:
A Philips Console Videopac G7000, the controllers rust

aye i had one of those when i was a nipper -20 + years ago :rolleyes:

georges · 25 Apr 2006 at 19:03

I think there's still a 3dfx voodoo 2 or something lying around.. with the win 95 laptop

wilders · 25 Apr 2006 at 22:28

Hmmm.....all my old cr@p gets bay'd........nothing old here!

silversurfer · 28 Feb 2008 at 13:04

I swear there was an oldest hardware in use thread but I'll stick this here till I find it

leezer3 · 28 Feb 2008 at 13:08

Not going looking for that thread now, but there's a LS120 drive used in my server. (120mb on a 3.5" floppy :eek:

)
I've also got a few ancient PCMCIA 10mbps LAN cards which I acquired a few months back and are in occasional testing usage (Tends to be on lappys with odd network cards- The drivers for these things are included with Win95, so they work with anything!)

-Leezer-