What's the oldest PC you've got up and running?

[SKORPI0]

I've heard of a school still running commodore 64 because it still fills the job and replacing their controls with all new equipment is significantly greater in cost than simply replacing parts when they fail.

Probably an Amiga.... http://www.popularmechanics.com/tec...a16010/30-year-old-computer-runs-school-heat/

 

[BUTCH1]

The one I'm using now. Still clinging to 775, bought a Xeon E5450 last year for $30 and OC'ed it to 3.6Ghz. Yea, I know it's a fossil but it's fun buying a chip that sold for $1,000 6 years ago for $30. Moving to a SSD in 2012 and buying a 7790 card last year for $60 as well. I'm wanting to build a newer system because it's fun to build, but this rig still does everything I need to without any problems so I can't validate throwing $300-500 at a new Mobo/CPU/RAM at this point.

 

[ImpulsE69]

.I have a system that's been running non-stop since 2003. I can't even remember what it has in it but it used to be my gaming system back then. I use it as my recording system and "NAS" storage now.

I've pilfered and parted out all my older systems.

 

[BStorm]

My own nostalgia toy is an Apple Powerbook G3 "Pismo" purchased for $30 on eBay last year. I had to swap out the optical drive, the batteries (both main and PRAM) were fried and bottom casing was cracked, but everything else worked. Boots into Mac OS 9.2.1 or 10.4.11. I use it mainly to play old school games like A-10 Attack!, SimCity 2000, etc.

For me it was I laptop I wished I had back in HS, but at $2500 (starting) brand new never happened. To finally obtain a running one 16 years later (for 1.2% of original price) was very cool for me.

 

[Captante]

I have an old Northgate 286 briefcase PC with integrated moniter and like a 25mb HD which will still boot into DOS.

Next (and slowest that's remotely useful) PC is an Athlon-XP 2800+/Nforce 2 with a Radeon 9800 Pro.

Finally the slowest (still used regularly) is an X2 6400+/Nforce 590 with 8gb's DDR2 800 and a GTX-Ti550 ... works great for most HD media plus amazingly runs original Skyrim & Mass-Effect era games at acceptable frame-rates.

 

[louis redfoot]

a 2003 dell inspiron pentium4 laptop running windows xp, it's the only thing that works with the hp laserjet printer from the same era.

after that, a 2007 mac pro with quad core xeons and 2x20" lcds. this one's still rockin'

next oldest is an acer dual-atom netbook from 2011. great machine, loved the short time i had with it, but retired it for an ipad

 

[eldorado99]

Oldest computer I ever had was a C64, wish I still had it. I had a 386 up until about 5 years ago. Nothing interesting to note on the vintage scale now. I think my 15 year old Gateway Celeron something or other laptop is the oldest one I have now.