Poll: what is the oldest piece of hardware in your main computer?

[Ausm]

My Floppy Drive

Ausm

 

[Gatsby]

My oldest piece of hardware has to be my network card from 3com. its been oin 2 different machines for 3 years.

Evreything else is around a year old.

Gatsby

 

[sciencewhiz]

Parallel port add-in card circa '90. Everything else has been replaced 1 or more times.

 

[Kermit]

My SL2YK PII-300@450 from '98, still haven't upgraded
planning a P4 (or an Athlon, I'll have to change the motherboard anyway) upgrade Q1 2000

 

[4824guy]

A: Floppy

probably 5 years old, it came from a previos machine.

 

[Niege]

Case, 15" monitor, and floppy - 1993. I won't mention my still running Kaypro 10, though.

 

[odog]

another floppy circa 92... after that...the case which is ~3 years old.. then my diamond 56k winmodem @2.5 years... and finally my micron PC133 @~1.5

 

[fake]

Floppy of course.

 

[billyjak]

Supermicro 750a case and floppy.

 

[wolf550e]

floppy '95.

 

[Syborg1211]

a 17-inch sony trinitron monitor from 94!

 

[Heretik]

Floppy - '97

 

[IamDavid]

Mine has to be my Adaptec AAA-131CA sczi card. I thinks is as old as me now.

 

[cavingjan]

My old dell case, soundblaster 16 board and possibly the old 2x cdrom that came with the SB16 board. My question is this: does anybody else have a 5 1/4 combo drive in their nt server? I think that drive came from the same dell system. I know the power supply fan cracked and I must admit, model cement works pretty well at fixing cracked fans.

 

[Adul]

the 3com509b isa. drivers are in legacy mode.

 

[kami]

my floppy drive... it's from my 486 dx2/66 (late '95)

 

[Jumpem]

I built my current system a couple years ago, with a P2-450, Viper 550 TNT-1, and a SB AWE64. Come January, I'm dropping $3500 and building a new beast!

 

[Eli]

I think my keyboard is pretty old, but i can't find a date on it. Although, there is a pretty funny warning..

WARNING: Improper or Prolonged Keyboard Use May Result in Injury.

I think my oldest thing is my 3rd NIC(Yes, I have 3 NICs in my computer.. Sharing 'net with 3 people).. It's an old Intel ISA NIC.. Not even PNP.. You have to go into a DOS setup program to set it's IRQ and address.. Heh.. It has to be pretty old, at least early 90s..

 

[762nato]

Monitor Jan 10 1990 Hitachi Super-Scan+ 21"

 

[AngelOfDeath]

My Intel Pro 100+ management which is approximately 3/4 year old. Now I don't see my speakers as hardware but they are 4 years old. From IBM with a Sub. A very good speaker-system which until now haven't been given any competion. The cambridge speakers from CL are exceptionel in sound.

AoD

 

[mikable]

I have an old combo floppy drive! had it since forever. I also have 2 anceint scsi drives. they must be 8 years old! still kicking though!



M

 

[2confused]

My indestructible IBM AT keyboard. What, 8+ yrs at least.

My firewall box, Complete P100 Dell '95.

2C

 

[Eli]

I know someone that put one of those 3.5 and 5.25 combo drives into their new Thunderbird 700 system.. LOL ...

 

[sandorski]

Floppy approx 7 years old
keyboard pre-windows, so about 5 years

 

[DDad]

Still have several "ancient" parts I use- however, not just on "my " computer
Parallel port Card (from a 286 I trashed)
IBM keyboard (has a 1989 date on it- mainly a backup)
HP Scanjet Plus scanner (1988-1989 IMO still hard to beat for B&W and greyscale scanning- BTW still have the original software package for it- with Windows 2.1!)