Poll: What's Your Oldest Computer Still in Use?

Total Refected Power · Mar 13, 2001

What's Your Oldest Computer Still in Use?

We still use an EVEREX 386 running DOS 5.0 for data-acquisition on one of our instruments. It has dual floppies a 20 MB hardrive and 8 MB RAM. No sound, CD-ROM, networking etc. An old basic box.

Viper GTS · Mar 13, 2001

My dad still uses his 486 DX/2-66. 16 MB RAM, 128 MB primary HD, 800 MB secondary HD, 5.25" & 3.25" floppies, runs Windows 3.1. :disgust:

Now that my parents finally sold their second house he's think that "maybe it's time to upgrade."

Viper GTS

Windogg · Mar 13, 2001

Dad still has a IBM XT at his office attached to a report printer.

warcleric · Mar 13, 2001

Commodore C64, I use it about once a week.

ArkAoss · Mar 13, 2001

at home, still use a cyrix 266 as a server, my grand ma uses a 386 for solitaire, in the office we use alot of 486's and I think there's a 386 someplace,

thebestMAX · Mar 13, 2001

TRP - Have a great 386 motherboard and memory in storage if you ever need one. What kind of instrument is yours hooked to? Had to be better than some of the Data Intergrators I used. (HPLC and gamma/scintillation counters)

Still using a 486 dx100 upgraded to a 586 dx-133 with 32 M of ram and 2 420 M hard drives. Great for my GF on the net and seems like it will last forever.

Elledan · Mar 13, 2001

An old 386 laptop in case of an emergency

Further my good ol' 486 running Win95.

KameLeon · Mar 13, 2001

My Pentium 166 still runs like a Charm! It's running RH 7!

10:36am up 15 days, 20:18, 2 users, load average: 0.23, 0.10, 0.02

iamwiz82 · Mar 13, 2001

i just retired our oldest machine at work. A 286 with 40 big megs of HDD, and 1meg of ram. phew, this baby is sweet.

We had it out in our receiving dock for the blue collars to print barcode labels from.

This baby was in an environmental case that had 2 120 mm fans in it, 1 of which actually worked. Neither had filters, so the inside was caked in dirt and grime.

The fan in the PS had died years ago, and the 12" monitor was permenantly burned in with an image of the barcode program.

I wiped a tear away when i put it into storage...

Windogg · Mar 13, 2001

iamawiz82 reminded me how sturdy those old computers used to be. That old XT probably has more steal in it's keyboard than your average Eww-Machine. Anyone who has ever tried to pick up the keyboard always go surprised by its heft. Those heavy duty springs would take punishment that your average membrane KB could only dream about.

As for the computer, we don't power it down since the CMOS battery died well over a decade ago. The power supply fan is so dirty it no longer spins but it refuses to die. 4.77Mhz and 386k of computing power chugging away.

Windogg

Total Refected Power · Mar 13, 2001

theBestMax

TRP - Have a great 386 motherboard and memory in storage if you ever need one. What kind of instrument is yours hooked to? Had to be better than some of the Data Intergrators I used. (HPLC and gamma/scintillation counters)

It is hooked up to an ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROMETER. EPR for short. It's like NMR but for electrons. We recently had an old 8080 hooked up to a spectrophotmeter but it died. Thanks for the offer. We have plans to upgrade the DAQ software (and of course hardware in the process) but you never know!!!!

dANt3R · Mar 13, 2001

I still have my TRS-80, but I only break it out every now and then to "out-geek" my friends.

Hamburgerpimp · Mar 13, 2001

A very old SlotA Athlon.

Azraele · Mar 13, 2001

I still use my 486 for writing.

BMdoobieW · Mar 13, 2001

My parents use a P166. I have a 486sx 25MHz in storage that was being used by my grandparents up until a year ago. It runs windows 3.1 fine and boots up faster than anything else I've seen lately.

BDawg · Mar 13, 2001

I'm still using a PowerMac 7100/66 for Photoshop, and mail serving.

Schola · Mar 13, 2001

At work we still have some older powermacs that run at like 60 or 66 mhz.

schola

The Stigenator · Mar 13, 2001

I beat all of you. I have a KayPro machine from the 1970/80's collecting dust. It works and I have the OS floppies too. Infact DOS was copied from the KayPRO OS.
It is HEAVY!!!! It has a green crt screen that is part of the machine, you can call it a suitcase. The keyboard is part of it too, its got a 5inch monitor, 2 floppy drives and something else, not too many ic's, its got a EEPROM to boot from and quite a few tubes in there.

jsm · Mar 13, 2001

I have a NeXT Turbo Slab. It's 68040 running at 33mhz! WOO!

warcleric · Mar 13, 2001

The_good_guy: he said still in use, you use that thing regularly? I have much older computers but not in use.

Ranger X · Mar 13, 2001

P200 but I want to junk it because it keeps rejecting my other hard drives.

DannyLove · Mar 13, 2001

I beat you all. my mom still uses a Macintosh Apple II Classic, with 8 RAM and 40 megs of space. its, at that time I was so into computers that they bought me it and for the first time i logged into AOL under a 2400 MODEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wow, technology at its finest!

DannyLove

prontospyder · Mar 13, 2001

Some IBM Pentium II machine here at work running win95

Electric Amish · Mar 13, 2001

I have a Pentium 200MMX (overclocked to 233

) running as my router for my cable.

amish

Pyxis · Mar 13, 2001

I have an old P100 that I just revived to crack some RC5

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