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| Thread ID: 41999 | 2004-01-28 20:43:00 | Off Topic: The Oldest Computer | Lizard (2409) | Press F1 |
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| 210830 | 2004-01-29 07:22:00 | been using my celery 533 with 384MB of ram and a radeon 7000 with 64MB ( pci no less ) two 6GB h/ds and a T2 ( dick smiths speak for 2nd hand ) dvd rom ( cost me a whole $10 ) all seeming to work fine on an intel 810 mobo ( + one bios update ) ?? oh year 4 years + ... although I think maybe thanks to dumping 9X and going xp pro? :) |
zminos (5010) | ||
| 210831 | 2004-01-29 07:42:00 | Sometimes I fire up the old 386, now a 486 with 8mb of ram and a 512mb hard drive! | PoWa (203) | ||
| 210832 | 2004-01-29 08:33:00 | We have 2 computers a AMD Duron 900mhz/192mb ram/3d prophet 4000xt 32meg/lite-on 12x10x32x cd-writer/20gb hdd/win98se for life its about 2 years old (i fried out AMD k6 450 mhz And i recently bought a comp off trade me Compaq Deskpro EP celeron 500mhz (just got 128 ram today) so 192mbram/just got a tnt2 16 meg pci as well today/4x cd-rom/ intel 810e mobo/ 6 gig hdd I use this the most as it has my stereo connected to it :D |
MrBeef (342) | ||
| 210833 | 2004-01-29 19:11:00 | OMG!!! 4 COLOURS!!! THE END IS NIGH!!! RUN FOR THE HILLS! better than my two.... |
Growly (6) | ||
| 210834 | 2004-01-29 20:12:00 | My grandad has a computer that's nearly as old as he is. | Wilky (776) | ||
| 210835 | 2004-01-29 22:10:00 | Toshiba T1000 Laptop, circa 1987. 80C88 CPU, running DOS 2.11 on a mono reflective (not backlit) screen 24 x 80 characters 1 MB RAM (512kB system and 512kB as non-volatile RAM disk. No HDD. No Modem No CD Drive No Audio 720 MB FDD Its Y2K compliant and has been very reliable, used in process monitoring for several years. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 210836 | 2004-01-29 23:54:00 | Ha I have one of these too (toshiba T1000), but mine must be a little newer as it has a small hdd (no idea what size). It runs a couple of DOS apps, also in process control and logging. Even better is that its batteries are dead as dead comes, and so I have it running of a 12V benchtop power supply, and hasn't been turned off for around 7 months if i recall correctly!!! However, i think it is only a 720 kb floppy, not Mb as you listed godfather... Oh, and mine has audio too - it can beep!!! |
craig_b (2740) | ||
| 210837 | 2004-01-30 00:16:00 | Oh, i think godfather wins for now - i told some lies in my earlier post - i went and checked out the old beast - its actually a toshiba t1600. No idea how old exactly, but there is a company id sticker on it dated 1989, so it is at least that old. Mine has a 1.44 mb floppy, and a 20mb hdd. Oh, and i upgraded it to dos 6.22 about three months ago too to run some "new" logging software i got... |
craig_b (2740) | ||
| 210838 | 2004-01-30 00:17:00 | My uncle is happily running a 16mb, 486-100 I gave him. Running win95a, Eudora 3 Lite (very good light weight client BTW), and Opera 6ish. Until ~1 year ago he was using a mac plus. The oldest comp. I have is a toshiba "portable" 286, with a black & amber screen that gets hot enough to cook on. I managed to get a copy of VIM running on it, so I sometimes use if for typing in front of the TV. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 210839 | 2004-01-30 02:55:00 | Wilky that's being cheeky, you need your head scrubbed with a scrubbing brush, like we used to get often from our grandparents!!. Main PC is a clapped out PC General, 48mg Ram, 1.2 and 10 gig HD, Win98 SE. Best machine ever 1985 Interger 286, 1.6mg Ram, 20mb HD, 5.25 and 3.5 Floppies, shh it won't fall over either. Does the 4 necessary functions, Database, Word Processor, Spreadsheet and Communication,running Dos 6 and Lotus Symphony. Most people will never heard of the software, it's the big brother of Lotus 123. Shows ones age doesn't it!. Les 3 |
leshibbard (873) | ||
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