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What is your oldest working cpu

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Our Pentium 1 @ 166mhz still runs Win95 like a champ. I turn it on every so often just for nostalgia, I grew up on the damn thing for over 8 years. Also we have a 386 lying around in the basement, but it probably works as well. Haven't fired that one up in quite some time.
 
I have an Atari 2600 at my folk's house that still runs if you can get the damn switches to function (one of the wood-grain units, too). That has an MOS 6507 in it. We even had the programming cart for it, though no keyboard or anything . . .
 
I have a perfectly functional Pentium 200 that I play Dune 2 on, 32 meg of memory and an original Soundblaster 16 sound card. Also have an XP 1700 with 512 meg that I use to play other games on.
 
Athlon XP 1750 MHz on a older MSI MB on chipset VIA Apollo KT600 + ATI 9600 AGP (before upgrade years ago was on a riva tnt2 card 😀 )

running and alive almost 24h a day, i use it atm on debian for home fileserver and secure browsing (banking, etc.) But on the older days this was my gaming rig lol
 
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AMD Athlon XP 2400+ which runs 24/7 as a home file server. System is setup to remote in from any PC I need.
 
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It's not mine, but a geek buddy has a working TRS-80 from the late 70s, and a few games for it.

EDIT: I think it's got something like a 2mhz Z-80. Basically it's not fast enough to run just a calculator app in a modern smartphone, although that's a bit apples to oranges.
 
Markfw900 said:
I have a perfectly functional Pentium 200 that I play Dune 2 on, 32 meg of memory and an original Soundblaster 16 sound card. Also have an XP 1700 with 512 meg that I use to play other games on.
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Dune 2 . . . I think that was my first RTS. Man I loved that game.

On topic, I have a PIII 550 that still sees weekly use and a Athlon 2100+ that my kids use all the time for basic web. That Athlon was the first computer I ever assembled, going on 10 years ago. Dang.
 
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It's not mine, but a geek buddy has a working TRS-80 from the late 70s, and a few games for it.

EDIT: I think it's got something like a 2mhz Z-80. Basically it's not fast enough to run just a calculator app in a modern smartphone, although that's a bit apples to oranges.
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I too have a TRS-80. I even have the data cassette recorder with about 4 games for it.

I don't use the TRS-80 anymore, of course, but I occasionally use the tape deck to do some dictation.
 
P4 2.4C that I have with me.
Though some relative of mine has my old AMD Duron 700 MHz, was working the last time I heard...
 
S939 X2 4200+ and several Pentium 4's ranging from 2.4GHz to 3.2GHz. They're not mine per se, but they're either close friends or family's computers that I do all the maintenance on. I can't convince anyone to upgrade from their Pentium 4's. 🙁

Oh! I built something for my girlfriend's son to play games on a while back. I purposely used old components because he was three at the time and the chances of it getting trashed were fairly high - AMD something-or-other at 1.2GHz, God knows what motherboard, 512MB of memory, Radeon 9800 XT, and a glowy case. It still plays all of his games to this day, and he's turning six in April. 😛 Except for spilling juice near (not on) the keyboard once, he's been absolutely excellent at taking care of it (so good in fact that they bought him a netbook this past Christmas), and he now types better than he writes...
 
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Not mine but there is a running 150Mhz Pentium Pro at work. Old timers keep it around because before Nehalem the P6 was the group's biggest achievement.
 
we have one of the original black and white macintoshes that we use for word processing and a mac se, as well as several pentium pros.
 
I have an old 486 Toshiba laptop sitting around... external floppy drive, serial port, the works. I also have another Toshiba laptop with a Pentium in it.. 24 megs of ram, the awesome power!
 
MOS 6502 @ 1.79MHz in an Atari 800. One of the truly great legacy processors used in some truly great machines back in the day.
 
I have a Pentium 2 266 MHz gateway desktop I bought back in circa 1996. It was One of my very first computers. Stored in a box in my basement. I'm not sure if it would actually boot up though, if I plugged it in. It's been at least Seven years since it was last used.

Before that, I owned an IBM Aptiva with a 486 CPU.
 
In the drawer I have a 386/33 and an althon 1.6G, in the closet I have my old Commodore 128, the Shuttle I have to get working again for a media PC has a althon xp64 3.2, my old Prostar laptop with the fried video card is a P4 3.2, not sure what I'm going to do with that beast.
 
We have an Optical printer that is still in use that I will be ripping out soon, It uses a AMD 386DX 40 (DOS)
 
Dual 486/66 running NT3.5 (512KB memory 20MB drive)

Not used but still will boot up and run the simulation it was built for in 1993
 
What's sad is that the TSR-80 had a boot time that blows the doors off of the best systems today, it was pretty much instant.

Also my ATARI ST had awesome boot-up times with TOS loading from ROM.

All of these years later, we are waiting 30+ seconds before the system has started and becomes available.
 
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