Most decrepit system you still use regularly?

[Bonesdad]

Latitude D610 and a AMD 3200+ single core desktop

 

[Loop2kil]

S754 Sempron 2800/ 1gb / hd3450 = my htpc...still does the job fine...my TV is only 720p wbich it plays flawlessly.

Sent from my Motorola Atrix

 

[stahlhart]

I still have the 233MHz MMX box I built in 1998 working. It's sole purpose is to provide a home for my Turtle Beach Fiji (with Kurzweil synth and SPDIF).

 

[WildW]

A Dell Optiplex with 3GHz Pentium 4, 1GB ram, and a SLOW SLOW 40GB hard disk. Used every day at work for software development in Visual Studio. Kill me, kill me now.

 

[Inspire]

Winner!

Is he still afraid of the Pentium FPU bug, so he's still on a 486?

I think its more about being stubborn. He would still be using the 286 16 with monochrome graphics if someone didn't break into his office and stole it. Frankly, I am shocked the thing still works. I did have to replace the printer 2 years ago. Got an HP 4050 off ebay.

It used to have a 13" Mitsubishi monitor. I was able to upgrade it to a 15" NEC. I tried to upgrade it to a 17" CRT but apparently, it won't work with it.

He keeps complaining that the Pentiums are no good, since I keep changing them every 2 years.

 

[birthdaymonkey]

I just bought a Thinkpad T60 for $135 off eBay. It came with a Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz, 1 GB of RAM, an old 5400rpm 60GB hard drive, and no OS. I installed a C300 64GB, an extra 2GB of RAM and Win 7 (had an extra family pack license) and it runs like a demon/champ. Couldn't be more pleased with my $300 investment.

 

[Deleted member 4644]

I use a Thinkpad T60 with a T2500 and a C300 SSD and it runs great.

I also have an Atom netbook that I use for audio streaming to my HT setup. It is worthless for web browsing IMO, but I have an ipad for that.

My gramps uses my old PII 400mhz with prolly 256 ram for email.... it runs about as well as a netbook or phone I guess for email...he does not browse the web.

 

[mfenn]

A Dell Optiplex with 3GHz Pentium 4, 1GB ram, and a SLOW SLOW 40GB hard disk. Used every day at work for software development in Visual Studio. Kill me, kill me now.

D:

I don't understand some companies. They're willing to pay $60K for a programmer, but they're not willing to pay $1K for a new machine. I mean, it doesn't make sense on financials alone to have a very expensive employee constantly waiting on a very cheap piece of hardware.

 

[Darknite39]

I just upgraded my first home-built PC that is now my Dad's daily driver from an AMD XP 1800+ to a 2500+ that has been in my closet for years (a part I actually bought through this forum!). PC still runs like a champ.

 

[WildW]

D:

I don't understand some companies. They're willing to pay $60K for a programmer, but they're not willing to pay $1K for a new machine. I mean, it doesn't make sense on financials alone to have a very expensive employee constantly waiting on a very cheap piece of hardware.

It's okay, I use compile time to check facebook. . . . which slows down compile time. It's win/win.

A new PC costs real money, and while it might save me some hours over the duration of a project I'm still going to book the same number of hours in my timesheet. I can imagine it now. . .


Project manager: Hey, here's 40 hours of work for you, off you go. . .

*1 week later*

Me: Hey Project manager, I finished that work in 30 hours - you can take the rest of the time as profit.

Project manager: Hey, thanks, good job.

*later*

Me: Hey there Line Manager, do you have any more jobs for me?

Line Manager: I thought you had 40 hours this week on Job X?

Me: Yeah, I did, but I finished it early, isn't that great?

Line Manager: Well, what are you going to book the other 10 hours to this week? If you book to unassigned time my manager will get on my back about it.



So, it is less trouble to keep me with a slow machine so that I'm not too productive.

 

[piasabird]

I am still running a scanner on my old P4 with 512MB of RAM. Makes it fun to load images and databases accross the network. I dont think it is a matter of replacing the PC so mush as resetting up the system with the scripting that the ImageNow Server uses with the scanner, and the virtual scanning Software.

They just upgraded the server and the client software. Since the server runs faster it is causing fewer problems. It is amazing that the computer keeps running on 512 Megs of RAM and the hard drive that is over 5 years old. May be closer to 10 years now. At this stage in the game it could quit running any minute.

 

[piasabird]

If truth be told half of the managers over programmers could be fired and you could do your job without them.

 

[abeth]

Athlon 64 X2 +4200 @ 2.6GHz
2Gb OCZ EL Platinum PC3200
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
1x 250Gb Maxtor (OS HDD)
1x 250Gb WD & 1x 1Tb WD (Storage HDDs)
(NEW) eVGA GTS 450
(NEW) Corsair TX850 V2
(NEW) Asus 24" LED

My current and only rig, just upgraded it a bit, 30+FPS in Starcraft 2 on High settings, Ultra Textures.

Will upgrade CPU/MOBO/RAM/SSD as soon as it can't run the next game I wanna play.

Amazing that for a hundred dollars (GPU) a 6yr old rig can still marginally keep up.

 

[CDC Mail Guy]

i don't know about "decrepit", but the rig in my signature SREAMS right along...of course, gaming is up to the videocard, and I have absolutely NO complaints at all, runs everything I throw at it woth no problems at all

 

[muskie32]

I still have the 233MHz MMX box I built in 1998 working. It's sole purpose is to provide a home for my Turtle Beach Fiji (with Kurzweil synth and SPDIF).

Nice!

 

[BurnItDwn]

Ehh .. my dedicated server is a 533 fsb 2.5ghz P4. It used to be a 1.8ghz celeron, but I upgraded it for like $3.50

My laptop is a p4m@ like 1.8 or 2.0 ghz....

Got rid of everything older than that.

 

[MrWizzard]

Well I don's use it regularly. But I got a Intel 8088 here.

Runs at a screaming 5mhz, and I think it has 16KB of ram, yes KB. Has a huge red power toggle switch and 2, 5 inch floppy drives....a very nice green and black screen too.

Should I phase cool this thing and go for 7 mhz?

 

[lord_emperor]

Athlon XP 2500+, 1GB PC2700, used to watch movies.

 

[muskie32]

Well I don's use it regularly. But I got a Intel 8088 here.

Runs at a screaming 5mhz, and I think it has 16KB of ram, yes KB. Has a huge red power toggle switch and 2, 5 inch floppy drives....a very nice green and black screen too.

Should I phase cool this thing and go for 7 mhz?

WIN! :wub:

 

[secretanchitman]

the oldest system in our house used to be a late 2007 15" macbook pro - 2.2ghz c2d, 4GB, 320GB, 8600GT 128MB. sold that recently.

now the next and current system thats "decrepit" has a Q9450 2.66ghz (put it back to stock recently, was at 3.6ghz), 4GB DDR2-1000, 300GB/400GB/500GB/1TB/1.5TB drives, gtx 260 896MB, dell 2407WFP.

 

[mfenn]

It's okay, I use compile time to check facebook. . . . which slows down compile time. It's win/win.

<snipped lots of WTFery>

So, it is less trouble to keep me with a slow machine so that I'm not too productive.

Wow, that's terrible. It's interesting how the "waterfall" method of figuring out the number of billable hours has had repercussions throughout the company's practices.

 

[JackMDS]

Dell P-III 1GHz 512MB RAM running Win XP.

I use it with special Cognitive Training software that needs to be accurate to the tune of 10 msec.

Programing was done by me years ago with special QB 4.5 basic extensions that can not yield 10 msec. accuracy with computers faster than 1GHz.

 

[aceO07]

My Thinkpad X22 P-III 800mhz 640MB RAM running Ubuntu and serving as my file/printer server running 24/7 for more than 3 years.

It was old when I bought it used 5 years ago and it's even older now.

 

[dac7nco]

A Pentium-M notebook, as an IPMI terminal.

Daimon

 

[50]

My Core 2 Duo CULV 1.6GHz is about all I can stand at this point, anything slower drives me nuts.

My girlfriend insists on using an Acer Atom netbook which drives me nuts since it reverts the N wireless to G when she turns it on.