Slowest PC?

[LbJustinTime]

I was just wondering what is the sloweset CPU you guys run out there? I run a Celeron 433. I wish i had the money to upgrade/get a new box, but that doesnt seem to be happening anytime soon. I know someone out there runs a 386? Where you guys at?

 

[CraigRT]

well, I have a Celeron 300A @ 450
but that's my 4th and slowest rig

 

[mrman3k]

Well I used to have a 3MHz computer way back when I was first born (it was my Dad's state of the art computer). He said he spent a small fortune for that. It cost him like $5000 at the time, it is nice that they have come down in price so that we can upgrade at a quicker pace and for less money.

 

[Matt2]

Originally posted by: mrman3k
Well I used to have a 3MHz computer way back when I was first born (it was my Dad's state of the art computer). He said he spent a small fortune for that. It cost him like $5000 at the time, it is nice that they have come down in price so that we can upgrade at a quicker pace and for less money.

Thank God for the microchip!

 

[vegetation]

Anyone who has a 6502 based computer (Apple // series, Commodore 64, various Ataris) are probably owners of the slowest mainstream computing architecture from a computational standpoint (approx .02 mips). I still have my C128-D fully operational, although it has a 2MHz variant of the 6502 so it's a bit faster. An old machine, but quite capable!

 

[Thinker]

If you guys think a celeron is slow then get a load of my current PC specs -

Pentium 166 MMX
32 MB EDO RAM
2 MB Cirrus logic Graphics card
4.3 GB HDD
14 inch color monitor
Sound Blaster AWE 32
i430 TX Mainboard

How's that for slow

|Thinker|

 

[Chaotic42]

Our News Director and PSA Director both use the same 25MHz 486. It has the numbers 386 with green bolts shooting out of them, changing them to 486.

I can't upgrade it's memory without a soldering iron.

 

[bgeh]

a P166 with 48Mb ram notebook

 

[Pocatello]

One of my PC is a Packard Bell
150MHz Pentium
1MB of Video RAM (can be upgraded to 2MB)
32 MB EDO RAM
15" monitor

It runs windows 95 and Office 97 just fine.

 

[mikable]

I got a working Apple II/e! used it just last week to play an old game for a bit. Duno about my Commodore 64, haven't turned it on since '98.

 

[Serp86]

p1 60mhz.

was my sister's until she graduated from university and didn't need it.

hell - i was stuck with that crap until a year ago....and would have been struck with it until now if it wasn't for a promise my mum made me that if i get excellent results in exams she would have bought me one.


WELL - actually i didn't go excellent - only very good - so i fired up word 97 (i had seen the headmaster typing the exam results in it) and modified the numbers. i'm a bad a$$

 

[Kalvin00]

I used to have a 486. 66 MHz, 8 MB RAM, 4 MB video. Took it apart though.

 

[magomago]

My Dad used to have a 486 25mhz, with 4 megabytes of ram, and 512k for videocard....ooh and a 200 megabyte harddrive. I'm sad he sold it (suprisingly he sold it for 300 in 1997) but one thing I distinctly remember is that he used Quattro Pro a LOT (whatever happend to it ) but it would take like 5 minutes to load up. I could double click on the win3.11 icon, go to the bathroom and come back and its still loading.

As for the "slowest" pc that would probably be on of the old ones that couldn't fit in a room.



Maybe we should have fastest pc

 

[LbJustinTime]

Well my 433 is my only and most used one. :X

 

[compudog]

I still have a running Tandy 386 @ 40 MHz. It runs Win 3.11. That's pretty slow. Do I still use it? No. It's basically a conversation piece and for parts.

 

[Mark R]

I know some researchers who are still using a PDP 11 as their main data-capture / initial analysis machine. They use an old 386 laptop as a terminal to connect to it. OK, it's not really a PC, but then PC's hadn't been invented.

After inital processing, the data is saved onto floppy and transferred to their main PCs (which are pretty much top-of-the range, and upgraded regularly).

 

[Texun]

Slowest I have is a 386-SX25 laptop. Stole it for a grand when it was new. Still worked last time I fired it up but I'm not even sure where it is now.

 

[LbJustinTime]

hehe.. I hate being broke =/

 

[n0cmonkey]

sparcstation 10, 36mhz sparc, 32 mB ram, 1gB hard drive.

 

[Slogun]

Recent construction in our offices over the holidays found me doing my work on an old IBM Thinkpad which sports a 486 processor, 20megs of RAM and a 300 MB hard drive.

 

[CTho9305]

oldest in use: 486 dx33 running linux... simple webserver.
oldest: an apple II
oldest x86: intel 8088

 

[LbJustinTime]

These are the real "elite" machines of the day.

 

[moonshinemadness]

I got a computer for five quid its a pentium 166 with 8mb of RAM and a 250mb Maxtor HDD. None ungradeable, its a museum peice runs 95 at a fast enough pace though!

 

[crisscross]

I have a Zenith Data Systems 8088 PC in working condition.

 

[bernse]

I have at home, fully functioning (actually, still in boxes, virtually like new)

Commodore 64 w/1541 & 1702

Commodore Plus/4

Commodore 16

Coleco Adam

TRS-80 Coco2

I actually had a "Spartan" hardware Apple II emulator for the C64 and 1541 when I was a kid, but sold it. It'd be worth a small fortune now as they are incredibly rare. Hindsight is 20/20 I guess....