It does mean original poster, but this topic is 9 pages long. 66659hi is just the first poster on this page, which as far as I know, there's no specific term to describe that.
Damn I'm jealous. I keep my eye out and the oldest laptop I could find was a PIII. People think that just because they're not worth money means they must be garbage.
Surely you can pick an oldie off eBay?
For me it was a fine balance between old retro feels and usability. This machine was a pretty perfect compromise. I'm not game enough to go either command line OS or B&W screen though.
Ultimate score would be an early PowerBook pre-trackpad with colour screen :-)
NEC VERSA 2650CDT laptop
1997 manufacture
Pentium MMX 150Mhz chip
~1.28GB HDD
32MB-RAM
1MB Video
CD-ROM
Floppy drive
Working battery! (~45 min of light comp use? Not sure though)
Upgraded to Win 98 SE from Win 95
Office 2000 Premium
Only got it a few days ago, awesome computer to use. Been using it as my main productivity machine!!
Machine with no internet access = most productive I've been in years!!
Also love the retro feels. I'm loving MS software circa late 90s. Old school Windows, old school office, old school VB 6.0, I find them so much more intuitive and fun to use!
Runs well, but I think I'm going to max out the RAM to 80MB.
NEC VERSA 2650CDT laptop
1997 manufacture
Pentium MMX 150Mhz chip
~1.28GB HDD
32MB-RAM
1MB Video
CD-ROM
Floppy drive
Working battery! (~45 min of light comp use? Not sure though)
Upgraded to Win 98 SE from Win 95
Office 2000 Premium
Only got it a few days ago, awesome computer to use. Been using it as my main productivity machine!!
Machine with no internet access = most productive I've been in years!!
Also love the retro feels. I'm loving MS software circa late 90s. Old school Windows, old school office, old school VB 6.0, I find them so much more intuitive and fun to use!
Runs well, but I think I'm going to max out the RAM to 80MB.
Some horrible old Pentium 4.
So slow with 256MB of RAM and DDR is really expensive here I'm the UK at least so the upgrade is not worth it.
Nice heater in the winter though.
I feel young.
I have a 486sx33 IBM PS/2 on DOS 5.0 running an OS456 equipped PRO-2006 scanner that has been in continuous operation since 1993. Really amazing considering how many lightning storms and hurricanes it has made it through. I often find it hard to believe the original 170meg hard drive still works like a charm. They don't build em like that anymore.
Abit BH6
Intel Celeron (Mendocino) 300MHz
384Mb 133MHz SDRAM
ATI Rage II
Less interesting parts are semi-modern hdd, random cd-drive, floppy drive, generic sound- and network cards. I have two/three of these Slot 1 Celerons and motherboards and RAM for all of them. I'd also have dual Socket 8 motherboard with one 200MHz processor, but I'll be throwing that away (it's a huge & noisy server with inconveniently sized boards).
Laptop - Toshiba 110CT - Windows 95, Pentium, 2GB HDD, 16MB RAM, 11.6" (?) 800x600 display. Interestingly it has an inbuilt PSU so just needs a clover-style power cable.
Laptop - Toshiba 480CDT - Windows 2000, Pentium, 4GB (?) HDD, 64MB RAM, 12.1" 800x600 display. Longhorn gets to the installer on it, just waiting on more RAM.
Laptop - Toshiba 4000CT - Windows 2000, Pentium II, no HDD, ? RAM, 12.1" ? display. HAS ACPI, finally! BIOS power-on password though so sits unused until I have time to revive it.
Laptop - ThinkPad T20 - Windows 7, Pentium III, 40GB HDD, 256MB RAM, ? display. Runs really well actually, waiting on more RAM. HDD soon to be transplanted into a newer NEC laptop with inbuilt Ethernet
Desktop (kinda) - AMD Duron (?) motherboard, 128MB RAM, 80GB HDD, no case, Corsair VS350 PSU (all I had spare!). Windows XP currently for testing older PCI cards and drives for resale.
I guess I might as well post my 2 oldest machines now that this topic is active again.
Compaq Presario 2100 Desktop (1996/1997):
- Cyrix MediaGX CPU @ 180 MHz
- 24MB of EDO DRAM
- 2GB Quantum Bigfoot IDE Hard Drive
- Generic IDE CD-ROM Drive which can't read recorded CDs
- 3.5-inch Floppy Drive
- Windows 95
Also has the original OEM Software, Including: Simcity 3000, MS Works, Netscape Navigator 2, And some others I can't think of right now. I also have the original Compaq Mouse that came with it.
And for a Mac, I have a Powerbook G3 from 1998 with the following specs:
- IBM PowerPC G3 CPU @ 250 MHz
- 288MB of PC-100 SDRAM
- 4GB IBM Travelstar IDE Hard Drive
- 13.3-inch TFT LCD Display (1024x768)
- Modular Bay CD-ROM Drive
- Dead Battery, I'm planning on getting a floppy drive to replace it.
- Mac OS 9.2.2
I have:
Celeron 466MHz
384MB of SDRAM
don't know the motherboard tho
9.3GB WD Caviar HDD
2.4GB Segate HDD
Two LG IDE CD-ROM
Creative Labs CT6710 Riva TNT 16MB
Sound Blaster 16
Realtek PCI Bridged Internet Adapter
FSP 145W PSU
And a LG W1934S LCD 16:10 monitor (though the GPU doesn't support 1440x900 :<)
Acer 6312-HW mechanical keyboard
and Logitech RX1000 USB Optical Mouse (USB 2.0 on Win98 )
Model: Dell Dimension 4100
CPU: Pentium III 866 MHz
RAM: 132 MB
HDD: 10 GB 7200 RPM
Graphics Card: (Older installation that came with PC) ATI Rage Pro 128 at 16 MB VRAM (Newer installation) Radeon 9250 at 128 MB VRAM
OS: Windows 2000 Professional
The oldest computer I own at all is a dysfunctional Altair 8800 somewhere around here, it's got a bad CPU and probably more wrong with it at this point than I'd care to fix, though I'll look around for it sometime.
The oldest running computer I have is either a Commodore 64 (designed 1981, released 1982, manufactured 1984) or the VTech LASER 128 (designed 1979, released 1987, manufactured 1989) depending on whether you're going by design, release, or manufacture date.
The oldest IBM-PC compatible system I still have running is a 486SX based motherboard that came out of a ruined IBM PS/1 or something similar.
Intel 80486SX at 33MHz
8MB RAM
Integrated Cirrus Logic Super VGA
MediaVision ProAudio Spectrum 16 Studio with SCSI Thunderboard CD controller
525MB Seagate Medalist ATA / IDE hard disk
MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11
I have an Acer Anyware v386SL that kind of works in the sense that the hardware is fully functional but it refuses to boot off the hard drive. I can still access the files, though.
The oldest PC I have that still works and is low end is a Toshiba PeoplePC V3100 tower with a Celeron 366 MHz, 256 MB RAM, and a 30 GB Hard Drive that has 98SE. On the high end, I have a Gateway Performance 1400 with 512MB RDRAM, and a 40 GB Hard drive containing XP Pro SP3 (the 1400 has been upgraded to a 9200 SE GPU, TV Tuner, and FW400 card. The Toshiba doesn't like GPU's (I tried putting in an All in Wonder, and it won't post.)
IBM ThinkPad 701c (1995)
AMD 5x86 133MHz
40MB of Ram,
8GB 533x CF card in an IDE-CF card adapter.
640x480 16bit TFT 100:1
Windows 95 OSR2 with Office 97.
Just one of them...
Celeron II 2.53 Ghz
768MB RAM
Dell Dimension 1100
(C:) Windows XP Home Edition SP3 build 2600
In the future (P:) Windows Longhorn Professional Build 4074
Graphics card: no idea
1985 Tandy 1000A - Bought it for $10 at Value Village 10 years ago. Been my main XT class machine ever since.
i8088 @ 4.77 MHz
640K RAM
Phoenix BIOS
360K 5.25" TEAC Floppy Drive
8GB Seagate HDD in custom home-made Bay Adapter
XT-IDE Controller
Tandy On-Board Video
Tandy 3-voice sound
3Com 3C509 8/16 bit NIC
MS-DOS 6.22 w/ Suppliment
Windows 1.01
Windows 2.03
Windows 3.0
And a heaping tons of games/apps, and other stuff I've been collecting since my first Tandy 1000 for 20 years (I started with vintage PC's in 1997 before they were even vintage)
I'm Paulo, from Portugal, I'm 32, and my first computer was a 286 with Windows 3.1. I loved this computer and I still love vintage electronics. Now I have a MacBook Pro 15" Retina, but my true passion is vintage computers.
Actualy I have an Apple IIc, a Commodore PC-20 II with MS-DOS 5.00, and an IBM P-75 with Pentium processor at 100 Mhz, and Windows 3.11. They are all fully working.
Congrats for your site and forum! I will try help, and learn too much more about vintage computers.
My oldest machine is probably my Great Grandad's 70
year old typewriter...
My oldest COMPUTER is (was...i sent it in for repairs and they swapped it,they swapped it!)a 2004
Dell Latitude with a Intel
@ ido.notknow MHz
UPDATE: OK, My Grandad sent me a TI-99/4a! its my first beige computer. iv'e alraedy written severa ltext-based adventures via basic, but munch-man, Parsec, and Hunt The Wumpus are gettin' old.
I am as well but I'm never the one to discover the damn things:P The law does frown upon such actions though stating it's stealing, even though they have shown a desire to get rid of what ever items you took:P
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My work has a policy, confidential information or not, no hard drive leaves the building without a drill bit through the platter.
My mistake, I thought OP meant Original Poster!
Surely you can pick an oldie off eBay?
For me it was a fine balance between old retro feels and usability. This machine was a pretty perfect compromise. I'm not game enough to go either command line OS or B&W screen though.
Ultimate score would be an early PowerBook pre-trackpad with colour screen :-)
This one?
http://publish.it168.com/2003/1026/20031026000701.shtml
Looks like an interesting model. How old is it?
So slow with 256MB of RAM and DDR is really expensive here I'm the UK at least so the upgrade is not worth it.
Nice heater in the winter though.
I feel young.
Abit BH6
Intel Celeron (Mendocino) 300MHz
384Mb 133MHz SDRAM
ATI Rage II
Less interesting parts are semi-modern hdd, random cd-drive, floppy drive, generic sound- and network cards. I have two/three of these Slot 1 Celerons and motherboards and RAM for all of them. I'd also have dual Socket 8 motherboard with one 200MHz processor, but I'll be throwing that away (it's a huge & noisy server with inconveniently sized boards).
Laptop - Toshiba 110CT - Windows 95, Pentium, 2GB HDD, 16MB RAM, 11.6" (?) 800x600 display. Interestingly it has an inbuilt PSU so just needs a clover-style power cable.
Laptop - Toshiba 480CDT - Windows 2000, Pentium, 4GB (?) HDD, 64MB RAM, 12.1" 800x600 display. Longhorn gets to the installer on it, just waiting on more RAM.
Laptop - Toshiba 4000CT - Windows 2000, Pentium II, no HDD, ? RAM, 12.1" ? display. HAS ACPI, finally! BIOS power-on password though so sits unused until I have time to revive it.
Laptop - ThinkPad T20 - Windows 7, Pentium III, 40GB HDD, 256MB RAM, ? display. Runs really well actually, waiting on more RAM. HDD soon to be transplanted into a newer NEC laptop with inbuilt Ethernet
Desktop (kinda) - AMD Duron (?) motherboard, 128MB RAM, 80GB HDD, no case, Corsair VS350 PSU (all I had spare!). Windows XP currently for testing older PCI cards and drives for resale.
Compaq Presario 2100 Desktop (1996/1997):
- Cyrix MediaGX CPU @ 180 MHz
- 24MB of EDO DRAM
- 2GB Quantum Bigfoot IDE Hard Drive
- Generic IDE CD-ROM Drive which can't read recorded CDs
- 3.5-inch Floppy Drive
- Windows 95
Also has the original OEM Software, Including: Simcity 3000, MS Works, Netscape Navigator 2, And some others I can't think of right now. I also have the original Compaq Mouse that came with it.
And for a Mac, I have a Powerbook G3 from 1998 with the following specs:
- IBM PowerPC G3 CPU @ 250 MHz
- 288MB of PC-100 SDRAM
- 4GB IBM Travelstar IDE Hard Drive
- 13.3-inch TFT LCD Display (1024x768)
- Modular Bay CD-ROM Drive
- Dead Battery, I'm planning on getting a floppy drive to replace it.
- Mac OS 9.2.2
Celeron 466MHz
384MB of SDRAM
don't know the motherboard tho
9.3GB WD Caviar HDD
2.4GB Segate HDD
Two LG IDE CD-ROM
Creative Labs CT6710 Riva TNT 16MB
Sound Blaster 16
Realtek PCI Bridged Internet Adapter
FSP 145W PSU
And a LG W1934S LCD 16:10 monitor (though the GPU doesn't support 1440x900 :<)
Acer 6312-HW mechanical keyboard
and Logitech RX1000 USB Optical Mouse (USB 2.0 on Win98
sorry for a bit bumping tho
CPU: Pentium III 866 MHz
RAM: 132 MB
HDD: 10 GB 7200 RPM
Graphics Card: (Older installation that came with PC) ATI Rage Pro 128 at 16 MB VRAM (Newer installation) Radeon 9250 at 128 MB VRAM
OS: Windows 2000 Professional
256MB RAM
32GB HDD
Windows XP Home Editon
The oldest running computer I have is either a Commodore 64 (designed 1981, released 1982, manufactured 1984) or the VTech LASER 128 (designed 1979, released 1987, manufactured 1989) depending on whether you're going by design, release, or manufacture date.
The oldest IBM-PC compatible system I still have running is a 486SX based motherboard that came out of a ruined IBM PS/1 or something similar.
Not sure what to do with the latter.
It kinda runs, it's just that the HDD is failing so I'm getting a new one
128MB RAM
AMD ATI 128PRO/Ultra
Windows Neptune build 5111
AMD 5x86 133MHz
40MB of Ram,
8GB 533x CF card in an IDE-CF card adapter.
640x480 16bit TFT 100:1
Windows 95 OSR2 with Office 97.
Just one of them...
768MB RAM
Dell Dimension 1100
(C:) Windows XP Home Edition SP3 build 2600
In the future (P:) Windows Longhorn Professional Build 4074
Graphics card: no idea
i8088 @ 4.77 MHz
640K RAM
Phoenix BIOS
360K 5.25" TEAC Floppy Drive
8GB Seagate HDD in custom home-made Bay Adapter
XT-IDE Controller
Tandy On-Board Video
Tandy 3-voice sound
3Com 3C509 8/16 bit NIC
MS-DOS 6.22 w/ Suppliment
Windows 1.01
Windows 2.03
Windows 3.0
And a heaping tons of games/apps, and other stuff I've been collecting since my first Tandy 1000 for 20 years (I started with vintage PC's in 1997 before they were even vintage)
Intel 8088
Seagate St-412 10 MB HDD
360k Floppy (both 5.25 and 3.5)
512 K RAM
Original keyboard and the color monitor.
I'm Paulo, from Portugal, I'm 32, and my first computer was a 286 with Windows 3.1. I loved this computer and I still love vintage electronics. Now I have a MacBook Pro 15" Retina, but my true passion is vintage computers.
Actualy I have an Apple IIc, a Commodore PC-20 II with MS-DOS 5.00, and an IBM P-75 with Pentium processor at 100 Mhz, and Windows 3.11. They are all fully working.
Congrats for your site and forum! I will try help, and learn too much more about vintage computers.
All the best for you,
Paulo
year old typewriter...
My oldest COMPUTER is (was...i sent it in for repairs and they swapped it,they swapped it!)a 2004
Dell Latitude with a Intel
@ ido.notknow MHz
UPDATE: OK, My Grandad sent me a TI-99/4a! its my first beige computer. iv'e alraedy written severa ltext-based adventures via basic, but munch-man, Parsec, and Hunt The Wumpus are gettin' old.
Windows 98SE with Plus!
Pentium MMX 200mhz
64 MB RAM
Diamond Stealth 3d 2000 Turbo
VooDoo Monster 3d II
Sound Blaster 16
Tried Windows 3.1 on it as well and it worked fine =P Sticking with 98SE though.
http://imgur.com/a/ABg7y