The oldest computers your school uses.

[arcenite]

Slowest computer i've found so far is probably the sun machines. I don't know enough about sun tech to give specs though.

 

[CrackRabbit]

At my old job I used a variety of old computers.
Including:
A Mac IIx
A Powerbook 180 (my personal computer)
A Dell 386 Laptop
A Toshiba 486 Laptop
An HP mini-VAX system.
This was at a major university in 2000.

 

[Oscar1613]

one of the EE labs has a bunch of p2's (200mhz i think) running windows 98 b/c that lab is mostly for the x86 assembly class

 

[TallBill]

I'm in the Army, we have computers from the 1800's

 

[AznAnarchy99]

1990s Macs!! now with 9 inch screens in 4 bit color!! YEAAA

 

[sniperruff]

Originally posted by: 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.

think they'll probably wait for the spec's bulb to die and then buy a new one. the spec's are worth a lot i think.

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: AznAnarchy99
1990s Macs!! now with 9 inch screens in 4 bit color!! YEAAA

Hey,
we had 6 inch
that was 4-bit color.
could only run Type to Learn.

then came those 16 bit Mac's.
then the Imacs
and then powerbooks.

Stupid Apple. They get their way with schools.

 

[raz3000]

Old technology = your school is smart with money (or VERY poor). My university upgrades computers that don't even NEED to be upgraded, and just for the general patrons too! Last year they bought P4 3.2GHz, 1GB Ram comps and replaced them with dual core comps this year. They also spent $100,000s on buying and meticulously configuring the library main floor to accomodate the computers LAST year, and this summer they tore up the whole floor, replaced the ceiling, and had to reconfigure the computers in the exact same setup spending countless more (and the ceiling, comps, etc. did not need replacing). That's what happens with a university with a $3.5 billion endowment, though I wish they'd give away scholarships instead of throwing money away.

 

[amdskip]

Our scoring center using a 486 computer to score scantrons.

 

[Eeezee]

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

 

[KrillBee]

Originally posted by: amdskip
Our scoring center using a 486 computer to score scantrons.

we had a pentium 166 mmx for the scantron job

 

[illusion88]

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

Obviously the data on these computers isn't worth 1000s. Because if it were, they would be investing in better machines.

 

[OpTiX]

commodore 64 with the external floppy drive, and that awesome looking blue screen....load"*",8,1