Shit Computers

Zenithus

Here's a funny topic which you can all laugh your balls off at!

What's the crappest, and I mean CRAPPEST computer that everyone here owns, sortof a small competition.

Mine's a Zenith (hence the name) 286 laptop. Here's the specs:
Intel 80286 12MHz processor
No extended RAM (only 640KB base)
20MB hard drive
3 1/2" floppy drive
Monochrome LCD screen
Battery (lasts 1/2 hour)
Weighs about 5KG!!

Not exactly portable is it?

BOD

if it boots then its better than my laptop LOL

Zenithus

lol i'm getting another one soon, a little ibm thinkpad with the luxury of a cd-rom drive, that one won't boot, i can bet you that much!

BOD

my 12GB hdd is dead :(

Zenithus

12gb?!? lucky you, the largest hard drive i have is a 4.8GB, think about that and laugh

BOD

i think im just gonna buy a new laptop and use bits from the old one

and BTW wtf is with your profile?

Zenithus

BOD wrote:

and BTW wtf is with your profile?

What do you mean?

BOD

this

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Zenithus

oh right, lol, i couldn't think of anything else to put, when i think of something interesting i'll change it

Slash

No, that's not the crappiest pc.
I have i286, i8088 and some very old soviet machines from 1979

Q

I have the Sewing Machine: 386SX laptop, that if you overlook the shortcoming with it, is an amazzing machine. It has some features that would be nice even now on laptops.

-Q

TRAiNER4

Zenithus wrote:

Here's a funny topic which you can all laugh your balls off at!

What's the crappest, and I mean CRAPPEST computer that everyone here owns, sortof a small competition.

Well, the crappiest laptop I have is a Zenith MastersPort 386SX. It has 640k base memory and 1024kb extended with 384k shadow RAM. It has a broken 3.5" floppy and has a 60mb drive. It has a 808386 processor. It has a monochrome VGA CRT display (with vga video out port for a monitor). It also has a 9600kbps modem.

The crappiest PC I have, which is in storage:
Hyundai 286 PC.
808286 processor at 12 MHz (with optional switching to 8MHz)
42MB HDD
5.25" Floppy Drive
3.5" Floppy Drive
Standard cheap ass VGA card (only 255 color)
LPT1: port, mouse port, unique keyboard port (which means that only 1 kind of keyboard can plug into it)
9600 kbps modem

Those machines are the most crappiest machines I've ever come to use, other than my bro's Pentium 100.

Q

trainer4 wrote:

808286 processor at 12 MHz (with optional switching to 8MHz)

Never heard of that one...

-Q

JackTheStripper

8088 at 4.77MHz
640Kb of RAM
10Mb MFM Hard Disk (It actually needed it's own BIOS on the card)
720K 3.5" Floppy drive
1.2M 5.25" Floppy drive

From what I remember it had the newer PC-XT board. The older one would only take 256K of RAM and only 360K floppy drives.

Q

HaH! I'd forgotten about the Tandys and the AT&T from Fish! "Card Drive" 40!

-Q

noone

Atari ST unknown specs

BOD

my shithouse of a server.....

Dell Optiplex GxA
233MHz PII
192MB RAM
2GB HDD

TRAiNER4

Q wrote:

trainer4 wrote:

808286 processor at 12 MHz (with optional switching to 8MHz)

Never heard of that one...

-Q

While in dos, you can hit Ctrl + plus (+) or Ctrl + minus (-) to change from 12MHz to 8MHz.

Q

I mean "808268". My Sewing Machine can go from 12 to 16 or something like that...

-Q

NitricAcid666

my oldest computer the 386sx

40mb HD
3x cd rom reveal brand
panasonic 1.44mb floppy drive
320watt power supply
4mb shadow ram - think that was it extended ram
512k base ram i think
ran windows 3.1/dos 6.22
svga something card - 256 colors, very hard to find drivers for.

13" tatung monitor crt
no modem

FatTurtle

damnit! it has more battery life than my notebook does.

I can get about 2 minutes of life out of my notebooks crappy battery.


But suriously that thing you listed owns.

care to post a pic, zenithus?

Q

HeH, all my PC laptops have nil batter life: you turn it off and the battery dies within 3-5 seconds.

-Q

FatTurtle

that scary part is the replacment battery costs 150 bucks. WAY TOO much for something I have running off of shore power almost all the time, even when the battery did work

Q

HeH, all my PC laptops have nil batter life: you turn it off and the battery dies within 3-5 seconds.

-Q

FatTurtle

::SHOCKED:: Q did a double post!

He posted the same thing twice!

Q

[Bad Language] phpBB screwup. I submitted that and got a text page of "posting.php".

-Q

FatTurtle

Q wrote:

[Bad Language] phpBB screwup. I submitted that and got a text page of "posting.php".

-Q

i keep getting that alot for some reason, when I go to a topic or to post something.

MentalMadness

The shittiest thing I have is the old IBM thinkpad. It doesnt even boot anymore and the screen is fucked. I also have a Siemens 80286 XT board with a whopping 1024kb RAM...

nightice

Q wrote:

trainer4 wrote:

808286 processor at 12 MHz (with optional switching to 8MHz)

Never heard of that one...

I'll bet it was for apps that ran too fast at 12 but fine at 8. lol

Zenithus

Here's a pic James, for when the server's online anyway: [url=htto://hurstunlimited.myftp.org/images/hul-007.jpg]htto://hurstunlimited.myftp.org/images/hul-007.jpg[/url]

Zenithus

Thats the one, when it's actually operational.
It has a blue backlit LCD that looks kinda cool, but fucks up whenever a color application is run, lol. It's got Windows 286 on it (for some reason).