The oldest computers your school uses.

[KrillBee]

My college runs a few p2 350s up in the library. I dont know why they havent gotten replaced yet, seeing as there are stacks of p3 450s just sitting in storage waiting to be recycled.
Other than that we have a few P3 450s, 700s. 1ghz located in a few department labs, and res-halls, and some offices, but our main labs and everything else is p4 2 ghz or faster.

 

[acemcmac]

I wouldn't know... I try not to use the schools computers because the domain and firewall are so oppressivley restricive

 

[BrianH1]

haha. try Power Macintosh running at 120 mhz. They are easily 12 years old because i remember the same ones from when i was in 3rd grade.

 

[BriGy86]

P2... NOW WITH MMX TECHNOLOGY!

i think we have some older ones, i saw a bunch that had PONY labeled on the front

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

There are still some P133 Gateways in most of the teachers' rooms at my school. Most of the computers at my school are P3 600's though (13gb HDD, 128mb RAM).

 

[halik]

i worked a local news published company in 2003 and they were using green screen terminal mainframe form 1978. I kid you not.

 

[sigs3gv]

My school has a computer running DOS. I think it might be running on a 486.

 

[Blayze]

Saw a few Pentium 200s with 128 megs of RAM. They had Windows XP Pro on them too. Very slow.

 

[BriGy86]

my question is- why do they use these for so long? there comes a point when they HAVE to upgrade, but they are so outdated that they cannot port the data over because of such differences

 

[sigs3gv]

Budget problems?

 

[BriGy86]

Originally posted by: sigs3gv
Budget problems?

to some companies data is worth thousands, a new computer running XP can be baught with as little as 600 bucks if not less

i understand that they may not be able to get the latest and greatest, but still using DOS?

they should at least strive for win. 98 by now

 

[JujuFish]

8086 ftw.

 

[phaxmohdem]

Our school has a couiple K5 PR133's in the library, along with some PIII 933's. Mostly all got replaced this year though with celery D 2.93's

 

[slpaulson]

I use an 8088 for a class.

 

[sigs3gv]

Originally posted by: BriGy86

Originally posted by: sigs3gv
Budget problems?

to some companies data is worth thousands, a new computer running XP can be baught with as little as 600 bucks if not less

i understand that they may not be able to get the latest and greatest, but still using DOS?

they should at least strive for win. 98 by now

Well, the DOS computer is still running but is not used for any important tasks. It's a junk machine that the lighting crew plays around with.

 

[ChefJoe]

Umm, I work in a lab. We inherited an old HP diode array spectrophotometer that has a Compaq 486 SX running MS-DOS something or other. I'm having tons of fun trying to find modern Windows software that reads the output files so we can at least work up data on something a bit more comfortable.

 

[KrillBee]

Originally posted by: sigs3gv

Originally posted by: BriGy86

Originally posted by: sigs3gv
Budget problems?

to some companies data is worth thousands, a new computer running XP can be baught with as little as 600 bucks if not less

i understand that they may not be able to get the latest and greatest, but still using DOS?

they should at least strive for win. 98 by now

Well, the DOS computer is still running but is not used for any important tasks. It's a junk machine that the lighting crew plays around with.

ok,
to clarify for everyone else, when I asked how old the oldest computers were, I meant ones that still get used regularly for important tasks for teachers/staff and also students(writing papers, doing research)

I think theres a 486 somewhere hooked up in the physics department at my school. But its only hooked up for people to play around with.

 

[hjo3]

our Mac lab has G4s

 

[alpineranger]

My university's computer science department (my department) has a 386 that runs the access control system for the entire department. It cannot be upgraded because the system was designed with some hard coded "timing" loops. One time, the old processor burned out (it had been on basically 24x7 for well over a decade), and when they upgraded to a 486, they found out the hard way that it wouldn't take. It's not like they don't have the money to upgrade it (big name school with a sizable budget), but if it ain't broke...

 

[nageov3t]

< doesn't go to school

but we've got some P1 / AT boxes in the data center... basically ticking timebombs because the clients refuse to upgrade and we can't stock replacement hardware for the boxes.

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: KrillBee
My college runs a few p2 350s up in the library. I dont know why they havent gotten replaced yet, seeing as there are stacks of p3 450s just sitting in storage waiting to be recycled.
Other than that we have a few P3 450s, 700s. 1ghz located in a few department labs, and res-halls, and some offices, but our main labs and everything else is p4 2 ghz or faster.

You win.

 

[Mickey Eye]

I don't know but that DX4 100 seems to be doing something standing in the corner of the office. Doesn't appear to have a monitor but it's connected somehow. Answers on a postcard please.

 

[Zugzwang152]

One of our computer labs runs Pentium II 400Mhz machines, with 128MB ram and 10gb hard drive, though this is due to political issues between departments rather than available funds. We have quite a few 1st gen imacs and 300-400mhz Pentium II machines lying around as well.

The machine we use to create department ID's is a pre-G3 Power Mac running OS 8.6 and Photoshop 4.0. :Q

 

[Zugzwang152]

surely i must not be the winner... keep posting!

 

[Mrvile]

I think our school's oldest comps are 600mhz, 64mb ram. All data is stored in a network so no need for hard drives besides OS.