who do you know that rocks the oldest computer...

[spaceman]

my uncle.
cheap. cheap cheap.
date of purchase: 10/1996
hes running a pentium 166mmx
4.3gb hdd
trident display adapter...
33.6 modem, local (defunct?) isp.
windows 98/96mb of edo simms(i upgraded it in 2000)
14" svga monitor.
16x cd rom


and he bitches about it.
do you know anyone rocking something THAT old...
im talking as their only machine.....not some little pet project like we all have somewhere in the house....

this is the computer he still uses at home at least once a day

 

[Kelemvor]

Nope. Although until about 3 years ago my wife's parents had a 486 66 or so as their only machine. But then they get a new laptop.

 

[Jahee]

Lol over a thousand views and 2 replies!

Although mine's not as bad as your uncles, i've got a Athlon 1GHZ with 512MB and a 160GB HD.

 

[Dougman2008]

my grandma used to rock a old 486 with a four gig big foot hdd this thing was the coolest back in the day o yea it still to this day runs Windows 3.1.
now thats old school.

 

[Skiddex]

thats impressive that all that hardware has lasted for almost 11 years. how many times has he had to wipe it and reinstall windows? if not since the upgrade to 98, that would be even more impressive

 

[CrackRabbit]

Until I gave them a PII based celery machine they had been using a Packard Bell Pentium 66 with 32mb of ram running windows 95 at their business. It was a sad sad machine.

 

[krunchykrome]

My father uses an emachines computer. It has a 17 inch CRT, a roller-ball mouse. It is one POS.

 

[Fritzo]

I talk to people every day with P-90's, 133's, 166's. I point out that their PC is 10 years old and they always say the same thing: "But it's hardly been used!"

PC's aren't like cars. If you keep them garaged and clean, they won't last forever :roll:

 

[BoomerD]

I just set up (and reformatted) my old Sony pentium 200 Mhz (With MMX!) for our daughter to use for homework. I upgraded it to a 10 gb Hdd several years back from the original 4.3. It has the original All-in-Wonder 2 mb video card with a VoodooII add-on card (8 mb) that card rocked when it first came out! :roll: Running Windows 98, 33.6 modem, and 64 mb ram. Not particularly fast, but it serves her purposes well enough.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I used to use a 1994 Computer until 4 years ago. It had 4 gigs of Harddrive Space, Windows 98, I forgot the rest

 

[spaceman]

Originally posted by: Skiddex
thats impressive that all that hardware has lasted for almost 11 years. how many times has he had to wipe it and reinstall windows? if not since the upgrade to 98, that would be even more impressive

i reimaged his machine in 2000 with win98se(he had 95) due to a virus.
i plugged in 64mb of edo.

it hasnt had any service since then.

 

[BKLounger]

Up until a year ago my mother was running an old hp. 233mhz, 64mb ram, win98, 4.3gb hdd, cd-rom (not sure what speed). I finally upgraded her to an old 1ghz machine my company was throwing out. She didn't like the new computer at first because she felt it was to fast and she couldn't keep up.

 

[Spineshank]

Up until about a year ago my parents had a Pentium 100mhz, 1 gig hd, 8mb ram, 4x cd rom, ATI Mach 64 video card, running Windows 95.

 

[BrokenVisage]

How are there a thousand views already!? OP do you refresh this thread by the second looking for new replys?

 

[deerslayer]

No. I don't know anyone rocking a system that old.

 

[Exterous]

Man I thought my parents were bad - although I do have a tendency to give them my old stuff. Right now they are using a PIII with windows 2000, 256mb ram and a 4 GB HDD

 

[ForumMaster]

well my sister had an old macintosh (i think from 1994?) for a few years. then it started making too much noise, and since she didn't use it as much, we took it and put it in the basement. it still works fine though. powerpc something. i know it runs at 166Mhz and has 128MB of some form of ram. it has two hdd's each about 1Gb.

 

[Paperdoc]

We run a retail clothing store and the Point-of-Sale system is still on a machine we started with in 1993. The software fundamentally is an efficient, small DOS-based database system for retail operations. The machine has a 66MHz 468DX2 CPU, a mobo with VL-bus sockets (preceeded PCI) and 32 KB of Cache RAM, 20 MB page-mode main RAM, one 350 MB Western Digital HDD (that's 0.35 GB!). It is running Windows 3.1 on top of DOS 6.22, and the main application is in a DOS box.

Realizing this may not last, I am going to upgrade to a 350 MHz PII machine with about 128MB RAM and 2 to 5 GB HDD space, and a more recent Windows (not XP). Hey, it is cheap, and it will run an old DOS app well.

My new system at home is from last year - Athlon 64 X2 4400, 2GB DDR RAM, 2 x 350 GB Seagates, plus other goodies.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

To the guys whose parents have POS systems, how do you feel when you have to service them?

Servicing a 633mhz P3 with 128mb ram on XP was a PITA already. I sat there waiting for everything that would've taken 3 seconds on my Dual Core Opteron. I finally gave my parents the Athlon 1300 with a 512mb, and while that's decent on XP, it still bogs down a lot.

 

[SlowSpyder]

My dad runs an old Dell. Pentium 166mhz, 32MB, upgraded to a 56k modem. I think it has a 3 gig drive, 14" CRT. I'm going to upgrade him this year to a ~1ghz-ish P3/Athlon.

 

[Chaotic42]

My newsroom computer at a radio station I worked at in 2003 was a 16MHz 486. I'm sure it's still there. It was in 2005 anyway.