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Old hardware....you still use it?

IBMWarpsterIBMWarpster
edited April 2004 in Hardware
How many of you still use old hardware? Like every day? Im talking like 100MHz....not 500MHz.

I hardly use it, but sometimes for Word, eMail, and just regular stuff. I hardly use anything under 233MHz/128MB.

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  • SurfinShell23SurfinShell23
    When sorting through old PCs, I have a few filters I use:
    1) Old AT style keyboard plug- probably no good.
    2) Less than 233 MHz (really 300), probably no good.
    3) No USB. If it doesn't have USB, its probably old, therefore breaking Filter #2.

    Anything slower is hardly used, but I did have a 200 MHz or so at my vacation house running Win 95 that worked very nicely.
  • QQ
    I use my P166 all the time, infact, it's the WinWDCS 1!

    -Q
  • MentalMadnessMentalMadness
    Old hardware?
    I use a Creative SoundBlaster AWE64 gold everyday. It sounds way better than those cheap crappy PCI cards
    And my printer is about 10 years old, but it still prints perfectly
    My keyboard is an IBM PS/2 Model 1396790 from 1993. It's indestructable!
  • Ka0sKa0s
    A 400MHz.... thats from like, 1997!!!!
  • IBMWarpsterIBMWarpster
    Mentalmadness wrote:
    Old hardware?
    I use a Creative SoundBlaster AWE64 gold everyday. It sounds way better than those cheap crappy PCI cards
    And my printer is about 10 years old, but it still prints perfectly
    My keyboard is an IBM PS/2 Model 1396790 from 1993. It's indestructable!

    IBMc CAN NOT die. lol. only the floppy drives on my XT becuase theier made by Tandy :-P

    My printer is like new, but... my lazor is the same as a LasorJet II, however old that is!.

    Correction Fish, the 400MHz CPU was made around 1997, but was never really marketed until around 1998. Like the 386 in 1985...now, everyone was using 8088's in 1985, those didnt come until about 1989
  • TCPMetaTCPMeta
    I have a 286 with 2MB ram running DOS 6.22 with MS-Client for workgroups. Its used as a print server for my crapy laser printer.
  • IBMWarpsterIBMWarpster
    hmm.... *Gets idea with 486 in clost*

    Print Server! lets see, the shitty LJ2 printer of the old ass dot matrix, I dont think my 486 has USB..does it lol
  • TCPMetaTCPMeta
    I've seen a 486 with a USB addon. Some of the late 486 mobos had like one or two PCI slots. All you have to do is find one and pop in a USB 1 card.

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  • IBMWarpsterIBMWarpster
    just a joke, never though about a USB card.

    and yes, my Compcaq 486 2 PCI slots,but I use one for NIC (that onboard AMDNet one sucks ass) and one for video.

    The 486 I was talking about was this old box sitting accross the room. If I remember its 33MHz 486DX, 16MB RAM, and a 600MB HD and if I remember it still has Windows 98SE from when I told you on WinVision.

    BTW, its slow on booting, but its actually good after that. LOL, like XP on a 100MHz
  • Ka0sKa0s
    Actually, XP on my 100MHz even BOOTED fast... if it didnt BSoD every few hours, it would have been great... (dance)
  • IBMWarpsterIBMWarpster
    LOL, probly that old Socket 5 mainboard or something.
  • Ka0sKa0s
    Yeah I'm assuming there were problems wth THAT, because if I used a serial port modem, and downloaded ALOT at a time, it would disconnect ALOT.
  • IBMWarpsterIBMWarpster
    I think thats just because of dialup.
  • RNRN
    Heck yeah I still use old hardware. I have an IBM PC750 w/ 166 MHz Pentium processor and I love it. Don't forget my P2 300!
  • Ka0sKa0s
    IBMWarpster wrote:
    I think thats just because of dialup.

    Nah, dial-up worked FNE on a 200MHz I had wth the SAME modem... no problems... 8 days of online time sometimes, but it was still really, really slow.
  • IBMWarpsterIBMWarpster
    yeah, thats old, but I mean OLD OLD old.

    shit that people take out back and shoot at for fun. Now, dont ask what I do in my free time (woot)
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