Your oldest actively used computer kit

10-10-20

Morrisseeee wrote: »

Another game I installed was the Grand Prix 2 (racing car) game, by Geoff Crammond, a great game that was unbelievably customizable.

Yes, that was some game. I still have the box upstairs.
I remember so many of the older F1 circuits just from playing this... I used to try to replicate Eddie Irvine's incident where he managed to restart the Jordan's engine by rolling downhill at Casino just before the tunnel.
Tuning the dampers, lap by lap by lap... fantastic. I must get my 300MHz Pentium II running it again. I don't think I remember how to configure autoexec.bat and config.sys enough though!!!

Torqay

The oldest computer I still use on a daily basis is a Fujitsu Siemens Scenic T from 2001. It serves as ebook reader and video player on a 32" telly (1366x768).



Original specification:

Pentium 4 1.7 GHz Willamette (it can take a 2.0 GHz P4 Northie... if someone wants to donate)
128 GB SDRAM PC100 (2x64GB)
20 GB IDE HDD
CDROM Drive 48x
TNT2 Riva Graphics (32 MB) AGP 4x
2x USB 1.0
Windows 2000 Professional

Upgrades it has received over time:

768 GB SDRAM PC133 (3x256 GB)
16 GB PATA SSD, 80 GB HDD
DVD RW drive
GeForce FX 5200 (128 MB)
4x USB 2.0 PCI
Windows 2003

Benchmarks are pretty much on par with a Atom-powered Eee PC, sufficient for what I need it for and it's all passive cooling, so no noise emission.

I have a bunch of much older stuff alright, going back all the way to the venerable ZX-80 C-64, but I can't honestly say that I'd use them regularly.

stevek93

Torqay wrote: »

The oldest computer I still use on a daily basis is a Fujitsu Siemens Scenic T from 2001. It serves as ebook reader and video player on a 32" telly (1366x768).



Original specification:

Pentium 4 1.7 GHz Willamette (it can take a 2.0 GHz P4 Northie... if someone wants to donate)
128 GB SDRAM PC100 (2x64GB)
20 GB IDE HDD
CDROM Drive 48x
TNT2 Riva Graphics (32 MB) AGP 4x
2x USB 1.0
Windows 2000 Professional

Upgrades it has received over time:

768 GB SDRAM PC133 (3x256 GB)
16 GB PATA SSD, 80 GB HDD
DVD RW drive
GeForce FX 5200 (128 MB)
4x USB 2.0 PCI
Windows 2003

Benchmarks are pretty much on par with a Atom-powered Eee PC, sufficient for what I need it for and it's all passive cooling, so no noise emission.

I have a bunch of much older stuff alright, going back all the way to the venerable ZX-80 C-64, but I can't honestly say that I'd use them regularly.

I think you may have must judged your RAM there.

On another note was doing maintenance work on few computers last week in a company wont say where. The computers had to be 10+ years old everything was XP or Windows 2000 was surprised to the very least no sight of Windows 7 to be seen. God help these companies next year when Microsoft stops it support for XP.

My oldest actively used machine is an Acer Aspire 7730G laptop which is fairly heavily modified. It's nearly 4 years old but still not too bad a spec - Core 2 Duo P8600, 4GB DDR2-800, 60GB SSD + 1TB HDD, Nvidia 9600M GT, Windows 7 Pro x64.

The oldest machine I have in my possession is a Compaq SLT/286 from late 1989/early 1990. 12MHz 80286, 1,664kB RAM, 42MB HDD, 2400 baud modem, MS-DOS 5.00/Windows 3.00a. I was on with Ryan Tubridy about it a few weeks ago.

Torqay

stevek93 wrote: »

I think you may have must judged your RAM there.

Touché

Antar Bolaeisk

I've a nine year old laptop sporting Ubuntu. It's there for music streaming on the go and also runs sabnzb/sickbeard. Just recently it's decided to die if the battery is removed so there's probably a dodgy capacitor in there or something. I will be sad to see it die.

My main computer however is a bit of mix and match, the oldest component being the case which is six years old and the newest being the processor, only a couple of months old.

Run_to_da_hills

CPX J 600 mhz Dell Latitude laptop somewhere about the house. It should still boot up.

Adyx

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

I've a nine year old laptop sporting Ubuntu. It's there for music streaming on the go and also runs sabnzb/sickbeard. Just recently it's decided to die if the battery is removed so there's probably a dodgy capacitor in there or something. I will be sad to see it die.

My main computer however is a bit of mix and match, the oldest component being the case which is six years old and the newest being the processor, only a couple of months old.

My main PC would be similar, the case must be at least 7 years old now but almost all the guts have been upgraded. Actually the sound card is of that vintage too now that I think of it: a Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum. And while my main monitor is off being repaired or replaced I'm stuck using my second one which is also of that era. The power button is gone and I had to replace a couple of capacitors on the power supply board but it's still going strong.

Cereal Number

We have an old PII in use at home, only part replaced to date was the HDD which gave up 10 years in, beast of a machine but some noise, running Win98, A Open is the manufacturer, original hdd was 6gb (1998), cd burner added in 2000; cost 90 punts or so