The oldest one "running" is my Pentium MMX 166MHz. It powers up, but doesn't do much more then display a message something like "Please insert bootable media into appropriate drive" or something of that nature. I think it happened when I accidentally turned off the machine while I was installing Windows 95. IMO, it's not really worth anything to me, so the next stop is the scrap pile (I already scrapped the video capture card from it). The only thing that would save it from being scrapped at this point in time is a different hard drive.
Whitebox 286
12 MHz
1024k RAM
1024k SVGA Trident video adapter (hehe yep!)
42 meg Western Digital HDD (squeak squeak!)
Old IBM 8512 PS/2 monitor
Built sometime around 1989. I put the SVGA card in around 2-3 years ago. It had a Hercules mono card before and I was tired of my orange TTX screen. Anyone want that? Ultimate old PC...
I also have an IBM PS/2 Model 30 which is an 8088 with 640k. Someone gave it to me 7 years ago and I never got it to work.
I think I have a 386 IBM PS/2 Model 70 that was made in 1987-88 (I used to have like 15 of them). That would be my oldest I think. Working? Hell I don't have a clue.
Whitebox 286
12 MHz
1024k RAM
1024k SVGA Trident video adapter (hehe yep!)
42 meg Western Digital HDD (squeak squeak!)
Old IBM 8512 PS/2 monitor
Built sometime around 1989. I put the SVGA card in around 2-3 years ago. It had a Hercules mono card before and I was tired of my orange TTX screen. Anyone want that? Ultimate old PC...
I also have an IBM PS/2 Model 30 which is an 8088 with 640k. Someone gave it to me 7 years ago and I never got it to work.
I think I have a 386 IBM PS/2 Model 70 that was made in 1987-88 (I used to have like 15 of them). That would be my oldest I think. Working? Hell I don't have a clue.
The Model 30 is different. It uses the same case as the 55SX (my main PC for a few years, 386SX), which is a thinner and wider and the top is plastic unlike the normal Model 50 / 70 box. So no integrated monitor.
The neat thing about the Model 30 as opposed to my other PS/2's, is that the floppy drive is 720 K (the other PS/2 all had 1.44 MB ones, in fact the PS/2 pioneered the 1.44) and it has the ISA bus not the Micro Channel of the other ones (I guess since it's a ~4.77 - 8 MHz machine and MCA runs at 10 MHz and is 16 bit)
The PS/2s were cool because they were totally different from the other PC clones on the market, but were 100% software compatible. IBM was charging royalties up the wazoo to copy anything from the PS/2 line (like MCA bus) so nobody touched it and IBM took a big hit in the marketplace. My ~1995 era Pentium90 IBM PC750 has ISA (and PCI) slots again
Mind you the industry DID copy the 1.44 MB disk drive a few years after the PS/2 came out, and many years later would go on to copy the mouse/keyboard ports and also the idea of the integrated motherboards with the ATX...
my old machine is a
486dx4 100mhz 16mb ram
2gb hard drive
2 cd-rom drives
can display 800x600 16bit resolution
two out of the 4 ram spaces are used
im currently buying ram for it
A Commodore 64, with the floppy drive, sans cords. (I love working a second hand shop) See:
And then:
IBM Aptiva
486 processor 66mhz
64mb RAM
500mb HD
Either Sound Blaster 16 or AWE32, I forget which.
Win95 or DOS, I forget which version. ('fraid I don't got a proper picture of it)
Next up is:
Sharp laptop
Pentium 150 with MMX
Solid-state HD, 2gb
32mb RAM
Win95 See:
This one I actually use. A lot. Aside from being an awesome DOS rig, it's where I do most all of my writing.
My server, and oldest computer in the house at this moment in time is a RM Accelerator (ex-school computer) Intel P4 1.6Ghz running 1.2GB SD-RAM and W2k3 (see siggy)
Side note: why the fuck is SDRAM so damn expensive.
Side note: why the fuck is SDRAM so damn expensive.
I don't have any source or info to back this up, but I heard it was because they don't make it anymore. Or at least, they don't mass produce it like they did when it was current tech.
Side note: why the fuck is SDRAM so damn expensive.
I don't have any source or info to back this up, but I heard it was because they don't make it anymore. Or at least, they don't mass produce it like they did when it was current tech.
Yeah, but even second/third/* hand sdram on ebay is damn expensive.
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486DX - 100 MHz
8 MB Ram
That one's about 12 years old...
-Q
Funny thing it would prolly lag on Windows 95 as well.
-Q
Whitebox 286
12 MHz
1024k RAM
1024k SVGA Trident video adapter (hehe yep!)
42 meg Western Digital HDD (squeak squeak!)
Old IBM 8512 PS/2 monitor
Built sometime around 1989. I put the SVGA card in around 2-3 years ago. It had a Hercules mono card before and I was tired of my orange TTX screen. Anyone want that? Ultimate old PC...
I also have an IBM PS/2 Model 30 which is an 8088 with 640k. Someone gave it to me 7 years ago and I never got it to work.
I think I have a 386 IBM PS/2 Model 70 that was made in 1987-88 (I used to have like 15 of them). That would be my oldest I think. Working? Hell I don't have a clue.
-Q
They both work.
Is that IBM Compatible? That's preety old.
-Q
The Model 30 is different. It uses the same case as the 55SX (my main PC for a few years, 386SX), which is a thinner and wider and the top is plastic unlike the normal Model 50 / 70 box. So no integrated monitor.
The neat thing about the Model 30 as opposed to my other PS/2's, is that the floppy drive is 720 K (the other PS/2 all had 1.44 MB ones, in fact the PS/2 pioneered the 1.44) and it has the ISA bus not the Micro Channel of the other ones (I guess since it's a ~4.77 - 8 MHz machine and MCA runs at 10 MHz and is 16 bit)
The PS/2s were cool because they were totally different from the other PC clones on the market, but were 100% software compatible. IBM was charging royalties up the wazoo to copy anything from the PS/2 line (like MCA bus) so nobody touched it and IBM took a big hit in the marketplace. My ~1995 era Pentium90 IBM PC750 has ISA (and PCI) slots again
Mind you the industry DID copy the 1.44 MB disk drive a few years after the PS/2 came out, and many years later would go on to copy the mouse/keyboard ports and also the idea of the integrated motherboards with the ATX...
486dx4 100mhz 16mb ram
2gb hard drive
2 cd-rom drives
can display 800x600 16bit resolution
two out of the 4 ram spaces are used
im currently buying ram for it
Am386 40MHz
Maxed Out - 16 MB RAM
8 GB HDD
Win95C
ISA Ethernet + IE 5.5 (it runs)S
Sound Blister 16
Pentium III 1 Ghz
512 MB of RAM
40 GB HDD
Windows Server 2003
It has a sound blaster and some ati rage card, doesn't matter, they're never used. All access is done remotely.
A Commodore 64, with the floppy drive, sans cords. (I love working a second hand shop)
See:
And then:
IBM Aptiva
486 processor 66mhz
64mb RAM
500mb HD
Either Sound Blaster 16 or AWE32, I forget which.
Win95 or DOS, I forget which version.
('fraid I don't got a proper picture of it)
Next up is:
Sharp laptop
Pentium 150 with MMX
Solid-state HD, 2gb
32mb RAM
Win95
See:
This one I actually use. A lot. Aside from being an awesome DOS rig, it's where I do most all of my writing.
My web server is MY oldest that I have running!
Side note: why the fuck is SDRAM so damn expensive.
I don't have any source or info to back this up, but I heard it was because they don't make it anymore. Or at least, they don't mass produce it like they did when it was current tech.
Yeah, but even second/third/* hand sdram on ebay is damn expensive.
True, it's old technology, but still...
Altair 8800. Original everything.
Dun-dun-dun...