What is the oldest computer you own

Post by **mewrox99** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:09 am

For me it's a Digital Brand 486 with a 90mb Hard Drive 32Mb Ram No CD-Drives runs Windows 3.11 great, I could get some use out of it If I put NT3 on it and a 10/100 Lan Card

Post by **ddew** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:23 am

My oldest "computer" is a DEC VT100 terminal from the late 70s. It's not technically a computer, just got some very basic logic in it.

My oldest proper computer is a Macintosh, the 512K ram model.

Post by **killie** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:07 am

oldest pc... well i have 2

1st, my best old pc is a 1Ghz P3 with 512mb ram and a 160gb hdd drive that does some traveling between my main one and my old one, and it runs Windows Vista Ulitmate Sp1 fine, that might be because of the Asus Radeon 9200se 128mb thats on there.

my other one is an Amiga! a Commodore 64 thing, it has 3 floppy drives and runs perfectly still.

Post by **WinPC** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:29 pm

I think the oldest system I own is an old Apple IIc with a 9 Inch Monochrome (Green on Black) monitor, a built in Keyboard, a Mouse IIc, a printer, the manuals, and all the old software (including "Mouse Paint"). Unfortunately the Monitor doesn't work but I'm pretty sure the system unit still powers on at least.

I also have an old Panosonic Sr. Partner, which also has a Green on Black Monochrome Display, and it has two 5.25 Inch 360K Floppy Disk Drives, but it might be newer than the Apple IIc.

The oldest laptop I own is a Tandy, with a Monochrome EGA LCD Display, a Keyboard, a 1.44 MB Floppy Disk Drive, a (40 MB???) Hard Drive, MS-DOS 6.00 (Upgraded from MS-DOS 5.0 before I got it), Windows 3.00a, and lot's of old Abandonware, including old games. Unfortunately, I could never get a serial mouse to work with it, even though the system has a serial port.

Post by **mdogg** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:15 pm

Well my oldest PC used to be a 486. But it broke. My oldest PC was then, a Pentium. But it broke. My oldest PC then, was a Pentium 3. But it broke. It seems all my old hardware has broken. However I did get an Aptiva recently which, having a 500MHz K6-2 processor, is the oldest PC I currently have.

Post by **milatchi** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:25 pm

Apple //c (1984 or 1985)

Post by **m0ab** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:31 pm

Shuttle SN42G

AMD Athlon XP 2600
Nforce 4 chipset
1Gb Kingston HyperX PC 5000 (DDR 400)
80g WD HD
ATI X950 Pro (AGP)

Post by **nikhil14b** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 6:28 pm

P4 1.5 GHz

Post by **XDude** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 6:36 pm

an i286 with a 10mb hdd and 4mb ram
I don't remember, but I know that it's really old.

Other than that, i have a i386 and a i486 computer. I also have a pentium pro chip, 10+ P3 chips, 3 P4 CPU, 2 athlon 64 cpu, a P4 computer, a semprom computer.
a couple of old motherboards and 10 sticks of 128/256mb SDRAM.
All of the are old, if i aquire 10 P3 Motherboard, I could have 10 P3 computers

Post by **Piotr1312** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 6:48 pm

My oldest PC is pentium with 32mb ram and 200mb HDD.

Post by **IsaacD** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:32 pm

Oldest that I own currently? Pentium III 700MHz with 128MB ram.

I do also own a Sparc Pizzabox, but currently not running because I lost it's secure boot device while moving.

Old computers that I have owned....that would be a list that would take several days to read

Post by **zamadatix** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:42 pm

we have a gray box that runs windows 3.1... it couldnt run 95 without extreme lag so it must be pretty crappy. i might just get the sledgehammer out and have some fun

Post by **skyline31** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:13 am

I still have my old computer running Windows 98 (used to be Windows 95 back in the 'days), with 48.0MB RAM, 5GB HDD, etc.. It does lags alot~

Post by **Thlump** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:16 am

I still have a HP Pavilion 6630 running Windows 98 well from 2000.

Post by **happy dude** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:13 am

IBM Thinkpad R30 - Intel P3 mobile 1Ghz / 256MB SODIMM / 30GB HDD running Server 2003 Enterprise.

Post by **Tootles** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:55 pm

A Sharp "PC-1211" pocket machine from 1982. Includes a BASIC interpreter and 1KB of RAM.

Post by **The Distractor** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:41 pm

Used to have an old box, i know it had 36mb ram but not sure of other specs. it ran win3.x fine then got upg'd to win95, ran that fine aswell

Post by **hjort** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 6:25 pm

Oldest PC: IBM XT from 1986: I8088, 640kb RAM, 5,25" floppy drive, CGA monitor and a 20MB MFM HDD (sadly, the HDD controller is dead) Running MS-DOS 3.3 from the floppy drive

Oldest Laptop: Compaq SLT/286 from 1990: 12MHz i286, 4mb RAM, 3,5" floppy drive and a 40mb HDD. Running MS-DOS 5.0, Gem Desktop 2.2U and Windows 2.1 286

Oldest Portable: IBM PS/2 P70 from 1988: 16MHz i386DX, 16mb RAM, 3,5" floppydrive, 80mb HDD, and a cool orange plasma screen. Running MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1

Oldest Mac: Macintosh SE from 1987: 8MHz 68k, 1mb RAM and 20mb HDD. Running System 7.0

Post by **guiguipm** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 7:15 pm

My oldest computer is a Tandy TRS-80 and my oldest PC is a Thomson TO16 XP-DD (with 2 5"1/4 FDD and one 20MB HDD)

Post by **Cursed** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:33 pm

My oldest computer is not too old. It's one I custom built out of spare parts. It has an 866MHz Pentium III, 512MB RAM and a 40GB Hard Drive. All encased in a White and Silver case with a CD Drive. A 1998 Compaq CRT is used for viewing the wonderful Windows XP... I say this, but the PC is currently out of operation (Not that it would do much if it was in operation, since it is the worst PC out of 5 others )

Post by **Brian** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:33 pm

I have a Commodore 64. It works again!

Post by **Ensign Joe** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:46 pm

A notebook... 486 with 75MHz? Don't know exactly and 16 MB ram... Designed for Windows 95, running Windows 98.
Another notebook.. Pentium 1 with 120MhZ and 48 MB ram... Designed for Windows 95, running Windows Me (I wanted 2000 but the Xircom network adapter (originally bought on ebay for 50 EUR (101 DM)) does not work with NT-systems )

Post by **Brian** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:50 pm

Ensign Joe wrote:A notebook... 486 with 75MHz? Don't know exactly and 16 MB ram... Designed for Windows 95, running Windows 98.
Another notebook.. Pentium 1 with 120MhZ and 48 MB ram... Designed for Windows 95, running Windows Me (I wanted 2000 but the Xircom network adapter (originally bought on ebay for 50 EUR (101 DM)) does not work with NT-systems )

My friend's dad have a laptop it run Windows 3.1. It works again, but the monitor doesn't show the colours (only black and white).. I think it has 16MB RAM but I dont'know what CPU..

Post by **Cursed** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:40 pm

Brian wrote: My friend's dad have a laptop it run Windows 3.1. It works again, but the monitor doesn't show the colours (only black and white).. I think it has 16MB RAM but I dont'know what CPU..

My cousin used to have a DOS 6 Toshiba laptop running Windows 3.11. I remember thinking it was really cool since I'd never encountered a laptop before (We had a Windows 95 Desktop at the time, which was our first computer). My parents used to have a Commodore 64 in the early 90's that had a golf game.

Post by **luk920** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 8:42 pm

It was AMD K6 300, 32 MB RAM, Hercules Terminator, Shuttle Motherboard. I bought first mothns of 1998