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What's the oldest useless piece of hardware you have?

kranky

kranky

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I have a 10-year-old 500MB drive from a Gateway laptop. I'm pretty sure the value of that is about nil, and I think today's the day it's going to go meet the landfill. It's those small parts that end up stuck in a box forever.
 
I've got a monochrome graphics card from my old trash80, I'm pretty sure I still have my 10 meg hard drive too. (I think I paid 2 grand for the hard drive back in the day)
 
i still have a 286 and mobo with the daughter card containing, i think, 4 1mb 30 pin simms, or something to that effect in my storage building somewhere i think
 
Originally posted by: kranky
I have a 10-year-old 500MB drive from a Gateway laptop. I'm pretty sure the value of that is about nil, and I think today's the day it's going to go meet the landfill. It's those small parts that end up stuck in a box forever.
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A 500MB desktop drive of the same vintage. I keep meaning to take it apart and tinker but I keep forgetting.
 
do i have to get rid of an old computer in any special way?

i have an old acer from 92 200 somthin meg hard drive
 
ah, my basement is full of old useless junk. VESA video cards, old HDs, motherboards that probably don't even work, etc. gotta get rid of the junkpile - it's a constant source of nagging.
 
I would have to say the Commodore SX-64 "Executive computer" back in my building. This first laptop build (drag this sucker around with you) has a built-in 5" color screen, a detachable keyboard with new functions, and one 5.25" floppy disk drive.

Processor MOS 6510
Speed 1 MHz
RAM 64K

It was announced in Jan. 1983
 
Still have my commodore 128 sittin in my garage. Have my old xt sitting in my closet as well. 8 mhz baby! with 512kb of ram!
 
I have my old 386 SX (blazing 25 MHz, 80 MB hard drive, and 2 MB of RAM!) sitting in my parent's garage.
 
I just moved, so almost all the junk got the boot (and I'm glad for doing it). Probably the oldest thing I have around is...a stick of PC66 or the switch I'm using.
 
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: kranky
I have a 10-year-old 500MB drive from a Gateway laptop. I'm pretty sure the value of that is about nil, and I think today's the day it's going to go meet the landfill. It's those small parts that end up stuck in a box forever.
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A 500MB desktop drive of the same vintage. I keep meaning to take it apart and tinker but I keep forgetting.
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I took some old hard drives to the shooting range several years ago to test various calibers on them. .22LR won't penetrate the casing (WD drives, IIRC). 9mm will penetrate and expand a bit, might have been HP rounds (that's hollow point, not Hewlett Packard!). 7.92mm rifle rounds go right through, making a perfectly clean, round hole! The round actually melted the board as it went through...was really interesting to see! Didn't take pics, stupid me.

Anyway, most useless hardware is probably the 1MB 30-pin chips I have, which were intended for an old HP laser printer that is now dead (HP 4P, 600dpi at 4 pg/min!). Runner-up would probably be the serial and parallel port "add-ons" for certain older motherboards that didn't have them built-in.
 
an apple II G unit w/ some kind of Apple "Windows" program w/ applications and cool 2D games like Razdan, shuffle puck, star quest...
 
Broken standard audio cards, im not sure if they work or not, so till i get up to find out, they just sit in a drawer
 
I have a parallel port Syquest 135MB external drive thingy.

syquest competed with Iomega's zip drive and lost miserably.
 
Originally posted by: conservative002
Originally posted by: bernse
I've got a Coleco Adam in my basement.
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Is it the ColecoVision game system or the stand-alone home computer system?
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An Adam.. it also played Coleco games, but was the computer. I also have a Vic 20, and ald TRS color computer, apple 2, and a few others.
 
I think the oldest thing I have laying around is my 12x Pioneer DVD drive. Second place goes to an 80GB 5400RPM drive. I used to have some old RAM and CPUs laying around but what's the point yah know.
 
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