Your oldest piece of hardware?

kieves1 · 12 Nov 2009 at 18:50

I have a 486 dx2 66 mhz at my parents still.I think its sat next to an old amstrad cpc 464.lol.With a few cassettes by the side (Roland on the ropes and manic miner and oh mummy )

Glaucus · 12 Nov 2009 at 18:52

case from 2005 now used as htpc, but hopefully that'll be goign soon as well. Why keep old hardware.

Old hardware gets sold or binned so don't have anything to old. Seems pointless keeping old hardware.

danb21t · 12 Nov 2009 at 19:09

think I might have a 386 up in the loft, I know there is definitely a DAN 486 up there complete with the 5.25" drive and probably a 10" CRT LOL keyboards with the larger ps/2 looking DIN connection. Mice that have serial plugs.. dear o dear why do we have these things!?! lol

RJC · 12 Nov 2009 at 19:19

Oldest piece would be my monitor, Dell 2405

KnightsWhoSayNi · 12 Nov 2009 at 19:20

kieves1 said:
I have a 486 dx2 66 mhz at my parents still.I think its sat next to an old amstrad cpc 464.lol.With a few cassettes by the side (Roland on the ropes and manic miner and oh mummy )

Trumped:

In the loft at my parents place is an SX25 (overclocked to 33hz!) and an old BBC Micro computer (the mid 80's). Elite and Manic Miner disks are there too I hope

Here I have a PIII that runs SQL server 2000 just fine and dandy

asoxedri · 12 Nov 2009 at 19:27

i got a computer back in 2002 (i think) from TIME computer shop. still running today with windows xp.

milkinc13 · 12 Nov 2009 at 19:32

canon BJC 1000 printer from 2000, still working, been on 5 pc's, still running

MagicBoy · 12 Nov 2009 at 19:41

EffBee said:
Mitsubishi Apricot MS540 Without the screen

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

They were really well engineered machines. It must be well over 10 years old. I used to work Tech Support for the the Purple Shirt Brigade (red shirts back then) so it probably came from them or an affiliate that shifts white goods. Prices were £1299 to well over £2000 depending on spec. Monitor was extra!

Clever customers bought these, the others ended up with the awful Packard Bells!

Oldest bit of kit I have is my Sony 19" CRT from September 1999, then a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical.

ajf · 12 Nov 2009 at 19:46

Texas Instruments TI/99a computer, with speech module!
Also a ZX81 and thermal printer.
Think I still have the first PC I owned - Amstrad 386sx 25Mhz 4Mb RAM and 80Mb HDD

jaket · 12 Nov 2009 at 19:50

P3 CPU.

In use for linux webserver, gets turned on when testing html etc..

coldfused · 12 Nov 2009 at 19:51

I still have the first PC i owned and still works, a 380Mhz, 64MB RAM, 8GB HDD w/ Win 98 IBM Aptiva from 1999, I still use the keyboard, its fantastic!

genan · 12 Nov 2009 at 19:59

Just built my computer last week, salvaged some stuff from my old PC: X-fi extrem music sound card, logitech keyboard& mx158, all more than three years old but work perfectly. If we count stuff you are not using anymore: I believe I still have a broken C64 joystick somewhere

wonderlust · 12 Nov 2009 at 20:02

Oldest 2 items I have are My Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer which is about 10 years old.

The oldest in use is my IBM Model M keyboard. Dated 16-05-1989

MADEinSTOKE · 12 Nov 2009 at 20:03

EffBee said:
Mitsubishi Apricot MS540 Without the screen

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

i had one of these paid £1200 for it from currys ..1.2 gig hard drive 8 meg 3d card and no end of trouble with the speakers ...kept dying on me

Ricochet J · 12 Nov 2009 at 20:32

My nVidia Riva TNT 2 graphics card in my brothers machine at his house. The card is still mine and going strong despite being in a different home.

BriT · 12 Nov 2009 at 21:24

Still got my old standard microsoft keyboard from 2004, still does the job! Also got an old logitech wireless mouse, mx1000 i think from 2004 also.

beefybarn · 12 Nov 2009 at 21:28

Atari cartridge system, use to play space invaders on it for hours, gathering dust in the loft now.

EffBee · 12 Nov 2009 at 21:34

SlugForAButt said:
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.

As I remember it was a 16MHz processor. I added the optional maths co-processor at some point. I seem to remember adding a memory module too - think I took it up to 4MB.

EffBee · 12 Nov 2009 at 21:36

danb21t said:
think I might have a 386 up in the loft, I know there is definitely a DAN 486 up there complete with the 5.25" drive and probably a 10" CRT LOL keyboards with the larger ps/2 looking DIN connection. Mice that have serial plugs.. dear o dear why do we have these things!?! lol

I have about a dozen bozes of stuff in the garage like 1GB hard drives and serial mice and gender benders and ISA cards and parallel cables and so on

EffBee · 12 Nov 2009 at 21:38

MagicBoy said:
They were really well engineered machines. It must be well over 10 years old. I used to work Tech Support for the the Purple Shirt Brigade (red shirts back then) so it probably came from them or an affiliate that shifts white goods. Prices were £1299 to well over £2000 depending on spec. Monitor was extra!

Clever customers bought these, the others ended up with the awful Packard Bells!

Oldest bit of kit I have is my Sony 19" CRT from September 1999, then a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical.

Yes it came from the land of the purple shirts.