I had an IBM PCXT 4.77MHz 8088 with 640k and twin 360k drives. I did rig a 720k drive to the 360k controller that worked. Got it using the internet by having it ping but I guess either the floppy seek time or the CPU was too slow to do anything. Funny to see a NIC from 2000 work in an 8-bit slow.
I'm sure noone can top that when it comes to x86 based.
Wow 4MH thats so fast man, jk
But I would like to get my hands on system older then a p2 chip, I got 27 p3 system its nuts,
I had an IBM PCXT 4.77MHz 8088 with 640k and twin 360k drives. I did rig a 720k drive to the 360k controller that worked. Got it using the internet by having it ping but I guess either the floppy seek time or the CPU was too slow to do anything. Funny to see a NIC from 2000 work in an 8-bit slow.
I'm sure noone can top that when it comes to x86 based.
Wow 4MH thats so fast man, jk
LOL, that's so hilarious! :P
Anyway, I've updated my old sys post with real photos OMG! xD
PS: we just threw out 20 400mhz P2's at work about 2 weeks ago.
Dang it, I was like 10 months too late! My PIII has no hard drive :P and no mounting bracket, or screws. And I think the PSU was dead... either way, now I have a 500mhz Pentium III sitting on my desk for decoration
Oh right. Oldest computer:
Macintosh Classic
Mac OS 6
(40MB hard drive! I could store like 10 songs on there!) <-- I'm not that bad at math. I could really store about 13 songs, but i need some space for OS 6.
tosheba dynabook satalite
64mb ram
dead 5.00gb hdd
unsure of graphics
has floppy drive and cd-rom
believe it or not it even has 1 usb port.
my mate says im lucky to have a usb and even a cd-rom.
i run ubuntu live cd on it
All the PCs in my apartment are all about the same vintage. The oldest is an AMD Sempron 140 with a 785G board which is in use in my HTPC. It's the oldest in terms of the other two having slightly newer chipsets, 790GX and 880G. The oldest machine I have running just for the hell of it is an IBM Thinkpad 385CD
Toshiba Tecra, like a 730CDT or something - similar to the one pic'd above (with less tape and sharpie)
Two HP Omnibook 800's (the original Netbook)
166 / 32 or 64m RAM / 1.2 and 2.5g drives
Still working perfectly, including the external SCSI cd-rom drive, pair of external floppy drives and a port replicator/dock - one has Win95b the other a failed attempt at BeOS.
Also have an IBM MPro as my server. 2x600mhz, 500m RAM, 30g primary plus an addon USB2 with 500g and 1t externals. Runs Server03 great and a VM of NT4TSE with Citrix XP 1. (which is how I found you guys, my TSE cd was hosed)
Getting ready to retire my PIII server, so the oldest machine running on my network will be a P4.
Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz Prescott
2GB DDR2
80 GB IDE HDD
ATi 3D Rage II+ PCI
Asus WL-138G v2
Intel Pro/100+
Windows Server 2003 SP2 Enterprise (Would have been 2008, but my key is in limbo. Plus 2003 runs better on that machine anyway.)
I've got an Amiga 500 complete with a 512KB RAM expander (for a total of a whopping 1 MB), a beautiful Commodore 1080 RGB monitor and an external floppy drive (life is MUCH easier with two disk drives). I also have a 4 MB RAM expander lying around but it's harder to install than the 512 KB board and I don't have any games that need more than 1 MB anyway.
not 100% sure it still works but when i put it in the box to move it was... (its been about 20 years).....
lol ill have to see if it still works.
Z80
27k of ram, with 4 2k EPROM. 1k of video memory.
I wrote a word processor, an accounting program, some games, assembler, debugger and dissembler. And of course the OS.
Later I bought a Commodore 64. I connect the 2 computer through a parallel port. I wrote a assembler on the z80 for the 64. My 64 debugger was the z80.
Well my first "system" still kind of works. Tandy TRS-80 color system with two 5 1/4" drives and cassette tape. CGA/EGA color monitor. Processor is a blistering 1.79 Mhz. One floppy still works but one is dead and cassette works depending on how much I bang on it. Monitor is a little burnt on the edges. I can still play "Wasteland" on it.
My oldest desktop is my BBC Micro, my oldest laptop is my mint Toshiba Satellite 110CS, my oldest monitor is the Microvitec CUB used with the micro otherwise it's the 1995 9" monitor I use with my server (colour)
Specs:
AMD AM486 DX4-S120 120MHz Socket 3 Processor
24MB SIMM 72-pin memory (max 64MB) - supports the SIMM 30-pin memory, but all four memory modules must have the same memory size, otherwise the computer won't recognize the memory
WDC WD800JB 80GB Hard Drive
S3 Trio64 Bahamas 64/Paradise VESA 2MB Video Card: no 3D support :(
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Vibra16x PnP (Sound Blaster 16) sound card
Lite-On DVD RW LH-18A1P DVD Burner
Winbond ISA Multifunction card (FDD/Serial/Printer/Joystick/IDE)
No mouse and no network card*
Windows 98SE (cannot run Disk Defragment since I don't have enough computer memory)
Acer AL1917W 19" Widescreen (can only go up to 800x600@True Color (32-bit) since the video card is ancient)
*planning to buy the mouse (Logitech First Mouse Plus) an ISA network card, and 64MB (2x 32MB) SIMM 72-pin memory off of Amazon.
I'm also planning to either buy or get for free an ATI Mach64 ISA Video Card with 8MB Video Memory so that I can get the full resolution support, or I can get a CPU ISA Card that has built-in VGA graphics, 256MB Memory, 800MHz processor, mouse/keyboard port, USB support, and 2x ATA/EIDE connections (one for my Hard Drive, and the other for my DVD Burner)
I've had this system for 17+ years and runs great!!!
I don't know if I ever posted about it here, but I bought an Apple ][GS for $20 last spring. I can post a pic of it sometime, but for now it's just sitting in my Old Mac Museum, complete with my Mac Classic.
It has no hard drive, and I spent far too many hours trying to write the floppy disk images (ProDOS 800K :X) from my Dell using this program to give it its native GS/OS. It's a project for (the perpetual) later.
I don't know if I ever posted about it here, but I bought an Apple ][GS for $20 last spring. I can post a pic of it sometime, but for now it's just sitting in my Old Mac Museum, complete with my Mac Classic.
It has no hard drive, and I spent far too many hours trying to write the floppy disk images (ProDOS 800K :X) from my Dell using this program to give it its native GS/OS. It's a project for (the perpetual) later.
My grandpa had an Apple ][GS as well for a long time and he got rid of it in 2007 since he hardly used it.
It had a 5.25" Floppy Drive and a 3.5" Floppy Drive.
The oldest computer that is still around is an IBM Aptiva from 1996 at my grandpa's house. It has 16MB RAM (SIMM 30 pin or 72 pin), 2GB IBM Hard Drive, Quad-speed CD-ROM, Intel Penitium 166MHz Processor, Sony Trinitron Multiscan 15f CRT Screen, IBM Keyboard, Windows 95 Upgrade (since Microsoft didn't release Windows 95 for IBM back in 1995), Logitech Scrolling Mouse, Sound Blaster 16 On-board Sound, 28.8K Internal Modem, Trident on-board VGA adapter with 2MB memory. His old IBM is slower than my 486 computer.
My oldest machine that runs is the IBM Thinkpad 300. It has a 386 (or a 486) with Win 3.1. monochrome display, 280MB HDD, 3.5" 1.44MB FDD, and a mouse. Battery is dead so I have to plug it in.
My oldest machine that runs is the IBM Thinkpad 300. It has a 386 (or a 486) with Win 3.1. monochrome display, 28xMB HDD, 3.5" 1.44MB FDD, and a mouse. Battery is dead so I have to plug it in.
ibm value point
dx2 cpu 66mhz socket 3 it came with a 33mhz cpu
16mb or ram
3gb hd it came with a 127mb hd
s3 864 video card on motherboard
running windows 95 it came with windows 3.11 for work groups
sb 16 sound card
wow, nice. The oldest computer on my network right now is the SuperGateway (PIII 500). The oldest that I could easily get running? Probably those old Compaq LTE laptops from the early '90s, and a Dell 386 tower... the Apple IIGS is going to need some work :P
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Wow 4MH thats so fast man, jk
But I would like to get my hands on system older then a p2 chip, I got 27 p3 system its nuts,
Anyway, I've updated my old sys post with real photos OMG! xD
See them here: http://www.winboards.net/viewtopic.php?p=118875#118875
Dang it, I was like 10 months too late! My PIII has no hard drive :P and no mounting bracket, or screws. And I think the PSU was dead... either way, now I have a 500mhz Pentium III sitting on my desk for decoration
Oh right. Oldest computer:
Macintosh Classic
Mac OS 6
(40MB hard drive! I could store like 10 songs on there!) <-- I'm not that bad at math. I could really store about 13 songs, but i need some space for OS 6.
32mb ram
4.00gb hdd
run win95
cd-rom drive(it dont read things tho)
intel pentium with mmx
tosheba dynabook satalite
64mb ram
dead 5.00gb hdd
unsure of graphics
has floppy drive and cd-rom
believe it or not it even has 1 usb port.
my mate says im lucky to have a usb and even a cd-rom.
i run ubuntu live cd on it
That laptop has had too many run ins with a sharpie and tape.
Specs
512mb RAM
Intel Pentium III (soon a intel pentium 4)
Motherboard (From Intel, not DELL)
Wireless: Netgear Wireless USB
Video Card: nVidia GeForce FX5500
nope. best you can do is a socket 370 pentium 3 or celeron at 1.4ghz.
pentium 4 would need a different socket.
Two HP Omnibook 800's (the original Netbook)
166 / 32 or 64m RAM / 1.2 and 2.5g drives
Still working perfectly, including the external SCSI cd-rom drive, pair of external floppy drives and a port replicator/dock - one has Win95b the other a failed attempt at BeOS.
Also have an IBM MPro as my server. 2x600mhz, 500m RAM, 30g primary plus an addon USB2 with 500g and 1t externals. Runs Server03 great and a VM of NT4TSE with Citrix XP 1. (which is how I found you guys, my TSE cd was hosed)
-J
Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz Prescott
2GB DDR2
80 GB IDE HDD
ATi 3D Rage II+ PCI
Asus WL-138G v2
Intel Pro/100+
Windows Server 2003 SP2 Enterprise (Would have been 2008, but my key is in limbo. Plus 2003 runs better on that machine anyway.)
lol ill have to see if it still works.
Z80
27k of ram, with 4 2k EPROM. 1k of video memory.
I wrote a word processor, an accounting program, some games, assembler, debugger and dissembler. And of course the OS.
Later I bought a Commodore 64. I connect the 2 computer through a parallel port. I wrote a assembler on the z80 for the 64. My 64 debugger was the z80.
Specs:
AMD AM486 DX4-S120 120MHz Socket 3 Processor
24MB SIMM 72-pin memory (max 64MB) - supports the SIMM 30-pin memory, but all four memory modules must have the same memory size, otherwise the computer won't recognize the memory
WDC WD800JB 80GB Hard Drive
S3 Trio64 Bahamas 64/Paradise VESA 2MB Video Card: no 3D support :(
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Vibra16x PnP (Sound Blaster 16) sound card
Lite-On DVD RW LH-18A1P DVD Burner
Winbond ISA Multifunction card (FDD/Serial/Printer/Joystick/IDE)
No mouse and no network card*
Windows 98SE (cannot run Disk Defragment since I don't have enough computer memory)
Acer AL1917W 19" Widescreen (can only go up to 800x600@True Color (32-bit) since the video card is ancient)
*planning to buy the mouse (Logitech First Mouse Plus) an ISA network card, and 64MB (2x 32MB) SIMM 72-pin memory off of Amazon.
I'm also planning to either buy or get for free an ATI Mach64 ISA Video Card with 8MB Video Memory so that I can get the full resolution support, or I can get a CPU ISA Card that has built-in VGA graphics, 256MB Memory, 800MHz processor, mouse/keyboard port, USB support, and 2x ATA/EIDE connections (one for my Hard Drive, and the other for my DVD Burner)
I've had this system for 17+ years and runs great!!!
It has no hard drive, and I spent far too many hours trying to write the floppy disk images (ProDOS 800K :X) from my Dell using this program to give it its native GS/OS. It's a project for (the perpetual) later.
It had a 5.25" Floppy Drive and a 3.5" Floppy Drive.
The oldest computer that is still around is an IBM Aptiva from 1996 at my grandpa's house. It has 16MB RAM (SIMM 30 pin or 72 pin), 2GB IBM Hard Drive, Quad-speed CD-ROM, Intel Penitium 166MHz Processor, Sony Trinitron Multiscan 15f CRT Screen, IBM Keyboard, Windows 95 Upgrade (since Microsoft didn't release Windows 95 for IBM back in 1995), Logitech Scrolling Mouse, Sound Blaster 16 On-board Sound, 28.8K Internal Modem, Trident on-board VGA adapter with 2MB memory. His old IBM is slower than my 486 computer.
50Mhz RISC(m88k) CPU
32MB RAM
2GB HDD
ibm value point
dx2 cpu 66mhz socket 3 it came with a 33mhz cpu
16mb or ram
3gb hd it came with a 127mb hd
s3 864 video card on motherboard
running windows 95 it came with windows 3.11 for work groups
sb 16 sound card