Holy crap! My oldest laptop is old enough to buy alcohol in most countries!

[AnitaPeterson]

I've often seen threads here asking variations of "What's your oldest functional hardware?"

And today, it dawned on me that my oldest laptop must be 18 years old by now.
It's a Toshiba 420CDT (I think the same model Kevin Mitnick used for hacking!), still runs Windows 98 flawlessly, and I use it for emulating ZX Spectrum games and running old DOS games (like Dark Forces).

That thing is old enough to buy alcohol in most countries!

Hats off to Toshiba, they used to make really solid machines!

 

[Blue_Max]

Heh... I may have to dig up my old P4 laptops... Toshiba and IBM models... GORGEOUS screens for their day (still today) and built like a tank.

...and run just as hot.

 

[TeknoBug]

I recently recycled a 486 laptop, I forget what brand it was but I think it was from 1992 or 93. It was sitting ontop of a Magnavox Odyssey which I also recycled.

 

[ninaholic37]

Nice. Both of my dad's 90s laptops were Toshiba Satellites as well. Never had Windows 98 on a laptop until this year. One had Windows 3.11 and the other had Windows 95, and I was happy with 95 all the way up to until I got an XP laptop like 10 years later. They were still working recently, not sure what he did with them.

 

[MongGrel]

I hate when that happens, the laptop starts hitting strip bars and running up tabs, doing heroin, etc.

J/K

It's pretty cool it's held up that long, have never owned a laptop myself.

 

[ArisVer]

...Magnavox Odyssey which I also recycled.

You should have kept that as an antique.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

You should have kept that as an antique.

No kidding! I had to google that, just to figure out what it was!

 

[Commodus]

I sadly had to leave a lot truly old tech behind when I moved out several years ago, but I do have a 2002-era PowerBook G4, my first Mac. I got it because of the traumatic experience I had with my first Windows laptop, an entry Toshiba Satellite. It was so clunky, slow and battery-hungry that Apple's system was almost flawless in comparison.

I bought the PowerBook in university, too... suffice it to say that it drew a lot of attention when most people weren't using any devices during lectures, let alone a widescreen titanium laptop.

Others? My home's a bit of a retirement home for poor-selling tech. I have a BlackBerry PlayBook (hey, I got it for cheap!) and a Zune HD.

 

[Hi-Fi Man]

Those PowerBook G4s are really solid machines, plenty of people still regularly use those older PowerPC machines.

My main laptop is a 2009 unibody MacBook with Core 2 Duo @ 2.26GHz, GeForce 9400M, 6GiB of DDR3, 240GB SSD and Mac OS 10.11. At six years old he just started school .

 

[Harry_Wild]

"Holy crap! My oldest laptop is old enough to buy alcohol in most countries"

I will drink to that!