Whats the oldest piece of kit you have?

Oldest part of my "current" rig is the case. A Coolermaster 201B-SXK from circa 2001.

Got a few odd little things floating around though, like:


Sun Microsystems Optical Mouse from 1994! Went with a Sun Sparc5, needed a special optical mousemat!



Olivetti Quaderno sub-notebook. I seem to recall this is a 386 without a co-processor, the thing really REALLY is tiny for its age!





Size comparison with a modern dual-core (core2) CPU.

 
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Olivetti Quaderno sub-notebook. I seem to recall this is a 386 without a co-processor, the thing really REALLY is tiny for its age!





Size comparison with a modern dual-core (core2) CPU.

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that could do some serious damage if dropped
 
Well there's a Sinclair QL in the loft (remember those), but as far as actual PC's go, we've got a 1996(?) Gateway P233 hanging around somewhere. It had an awesome graphics card though, an STB Velocity NVidia Riva 128. Unfortunately, the 128 stood for 128-bits, not 128mb memory. It actually had 4mb ram :P . But then, the computer itself only had 32mb. My god.
 
in my current house, probably a socket a gigabyte ga7zxe motherboard KT133A and in storage I've got some older kit - namely P3 Katmai's and naked P2s, also a few complete dual P3 systems. I also have a few 1-1.6GB hdds in storage from old SETI@Home only systems and a 6.4GB Fujitsu hdd here still working but loud.

At college however they have a 386 still working running Windows 3.1 I think - had to re-solder the CMOS battery retainer onto the motherboard because it wouldn't POST a few months back and amazingly it works.
 
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My first PC, it had a 90mhz processor and 32 mb of ram, it cost £2000 but we did fork out an extra £100 to upgrade the harddrive from 500mb to 900mb. Still up in the loft, waiting for slot a to make a comeback!
 
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