Do you guys hold onto all your old parts? If so, what's the oldest computer part you have sitting around.

[Pakman]

I still have my old 286 motherboard and 40MB HD sitting in my box of misc. computer parts. I also have a couple 500MB HDs also... Hmmm.. I wonder if I can use those as swapfile drives. Hmmm... I wonder if that drive would actually slow down my system than speed it up... hehehehe

 

[Rifter]

my floppy drive, i think its outta my 386

 

[Stealth1024]

I have a commodor 64 floppy drive and monitor

 

[Biggs]

Well my AVR is from the PCXT days! GAWD!

 

[Horsepower]

SCSI card that came with my HP4c scanner and a Xyzel ISDN modem.

 

[Czar]

Dont know which one is the oldest.

C64 with Tape
1200bps external modem
Few very old tapes.

 

[DealBabe]

my little texas instruments pc.
also got some c64 stuff and an apple 2c

 

[Grminalac]

Hmmm rummaging through the basement the other day i found a old commmodore Vic 20. I wonder if it still works, It has a tape drive with it. Yes a actual cassette drive and what appears to be some very stupid games. I also have a Tandy 1000HX which I think is an 8086. I think it has 256k of ram.

 

[Stealth1024]

hmm... alright I have an old typewriter, a crank record player, and a hand water pump.

 

[bluemax]

That Tandy 1000HX was a fun lil' machine. Tough to find the riser "plus" expannsion cards for it though. I gave an extra memory PLUS riser to my dad last year for a 1000EX. Brings it up to 640k and adds two more PLUS cards, like any exist.

 

[bluemax]

Almost forgot to mention my Roland LAPC-1 sound card again. Definately an XT/286 leftover, 13" full-length card but in the day it was the best there was and I was the envy of all my friends. Still nice today....

I still remember when I booted up Wing Commander I..... whoa....

 

[Kamak]

My oldest piece of so called technology is a dicta-phone that records voice onto 8" long hollow carbon tubes. Actually got it to work once.

 

[jhu]

an original ibm pc. anyone have a pdp-11 i can borrow?

 

[airfoil]

A 40 mb drive from good ol days, just as a reminder!

 

[micron]

A sound blaster 16 w/ onboard SCSI from a 386 SX 16MHz and a 420MB Hard Drive from a 486 DX2 66MHz !

 

[A2KLAU]

Oldest would be some of my 486 components, and the oldest of them all would probably be the 486 Chip from the mobo? I turned that into a keyring, bit bulky but good to hang up though! Got a few splinters from the PCB board but survived!

Albert.

 

[hifimaster]

My amd athlon 1100mhz

 

[SCUBA]

i still got my old 16 bit S3 VGA
but the oldest part is an IDE controller i think its from an 386 pc

 

[AMCRambler]

Where I work we have some of the original mainframe storage devices from like the 70's. Actual 15 inch wide metal discs coated with some kind of oxide to make them magnetic. I think they hols like 640kb or something like that.

 

[Vyle]

I still have the first computer I ever bought and it still works! Atari 400. Whopping 16k of ram. Membrane keyboard.

 

[xfiles69]

I usually always hang on to my old stuff. However nothing of mine is as old as what I saw the other day when installing a new system for a guy. He had what I think was a 486 mobo w/the cpu soldered on the mb and 8 30 pin simms. It was very interesting.

 

[Muadib]

I still have my apple 2.

 

[LordEdmond]

Apart from the owner that is

Zilog Z80 2mhz chip 40pin dil package
8 kb system consists of 2k eprom 1k vidio ram 5k main ram

 

[Barefoot]

The oldest part I have is a 1990 Kalex 2400baud ISA modem. Funny thing is, I think it still works...

 

[Milkman95]

The oldest working part i still have is my first sound card. A Media Vision Thunderboard... Its sitting in a static bag now.. but boy was i excited when i first got that!! But had to replace it fairly early in its life yet due to the fact that it didn't have any cd sound inputs for my first cd-rom!