What's the oldest component in your current rig?

Cambofrog · 13 Jul 2008 at 22:31

What is the oldest component in your current rig and why are you still using it?

Mine is an 18GB Seagate hard drive from 1999. It's a bootable drive for Windows '98. I keep it because I have an ancient scanner which I use very infrequently, but I can't find any working drivers for the scanner for OS's later than Windows '98.

The rest of the drive space is used for general data storage.

shauncr91 · 13 Jul 2008 at 22:32

DVD drive from 5 years ago.

Cant afford a new one at the moment.

Azza · 13 Jul 2008 at 22:33

One of my hard drives, from 2005 I think.

Why because its 250Gb of sound storage space.

Kreeeee · 13 Jul 2008 at 22:33

40GB HDD, used as a scratch pad for firefox/msn downloads.

Schizo · 13 Jul 2008 at 22:35

a 250gb hard drive from a old dell i had 3 year's ago,use it for window's.

mejinks · 13 Jul 2008 at 22:41

a 1.44mb floppy drive from circa 1990

Unless you count my "for posterity" surge protector, which I bought when I had a 286. Thats well old.

badbob · 13 Jul 2008 at 22:42

80GB HD, still a decent size for game patches.

aproctor · 13 Jul 2008 at 22:56

sound card - audigy 2 no need to replace to be honest, and an ide dvd rw drive, both 2004/5 ish iirc.

Cybermyk · 13 Jul 2008 at 23:01

FDD, probably.

homi-sid-al · 13 Jul 2008 at 23:01

X-FI platinum,only thing i kept from my old rig.

Indy500 · 13 Jul 2008 at 23:03

MSI 865GM2-LS motherboard, 5 years old now.

Munkyman · 13 Jul 2008 at 23:05

Audigy 1.

Bought in 2001ish i think. It still works well, even in Vista!

RJC · 13 Jul 2008 at 23:06

My Samsung Harddrive for storage is around 2 - 3 years old.

trackrat · 13 Jul 2008 at 23:07

Yesterday the onboard LAN died and I put a PCI/Ethernet card in that dates from 1998 and it worked perfectly.
I new my box of old bits would come in handy one day.

rubin1961 · 13 Jul 2008 at 23:07

Azagoth · 13 Jul 2008 at 23:08

Audigy 2 and my DVD drives, both of which are IDE. Can't be bothered to upgrade them yet, may as well wait until I build a completely new system later this year.

ChrisD. · 13 Jul 2008 at 23:11

My X-Fi Fatal1ty. Bought it back in 2006 for like £150 or something stupid.

CoreRipOffDuo · 13 Jul 2008 at 23:11

That would be me. Laptop is about a year old, and haven't changed or added anything.

FreeStream · 13 Jul 2008 at 23:13

74Gb Raptor from 2005

MiNxYyY · 13 Jul 2008 at 23:16

160GB HDD from 2001,must have re-formatted over 100 times on this HDD