Whos running the oldest PC?

motorguy

Happened to look up the service tag on my desktop PC and its shipping date was October 2005 making it almost 8 years old. Its an old Dell GX something or other ex-work desktop that I bought off ebay used 3 years ago for £80.

Its on every day and in fact is rarely switched off. From memory i upgraded the RAM to 2GB when i got it and stuck a bigger hard disk in but otherwise its standard. Running XP. Perfectly acceptable speed for internet access and word processing.

I thought that was quite impressive (at least in a money saving way!)

:money:

Anyone running anything older?

PasturesNew

Mine's not old. I bought it new in 2006 for £200. It's got 40GB HD, it was a bit pricier than I wanted to spend as it's an SFF.

Graystreet

I can't beat that...I'm running a Sony Vaio VGC-RC202, bought new in 2006 I think, at least that's the year the motherboard was manufactured.

Memory upgraded to 2 Gb, the most the motherboard will take and recently added an SSD drive when one of the Raid 0 drives was taken out by a dip in the mains. The SSD drive was the best investment I ever made regarding speed. Also turned off un-needed Services and start-up processes.

Win 7 Home Premium, it runs well. On almost all day every day.

Ader1

Mine's around 10 years old. Not sure how old because I got it second hand after my other one's hard disk packed up around 1.5 years ago. I'm happy with this one now after getting help on here to improve it's performance.

S0litaire

I've an Dell Inspiron 8200 Latop circa 2002/3

Stuck Linux on it. Only problem is dodgy graphics card (takes a while for screen to settle and stop throwing colour blocks up) but apart form that runs like a dream!! ^_^

Cycrow

i have a server at home thats been running since 1998
it has a Slot 1 Pentium cpu in it running at 333mhz.

Currently running FreeBSD.

debitcardmayhem

My nephew has my old 2001 Advent running ubuntu on it,
I have a Philips from 2005 running Windows 8 and Fedora

gonzo127

my HTPC is running a old sempron 3000+ or 3100+ (cant remember which) from 2003-2004 when socket 754 came out, only upgrade i have put in her is a wireless dongle - although i have to admit shes getting a little long in the tooth for HD streaming from netflix and skygo now so is likely to be retired in the near future

InsideInsurance

Until last year I did have an old server running two P3 slot 1 processors and 1 gig of RAM in a Lian Li Cube. For a long time it was damned quick as a db server and file server but the time came to replace it when one of the HDs started failing and no longer have a need for a db server running.

googler

January 2004.

skivenov

I like my old PC games (Elite, The Incredible Machine, Duke Nukem), so my games computer is a 486/66 with 8 meg of RAM, 520 meg HDD, DOS 6.22, no Windows, twin floppy drives (3.5" and 5.25"), a quad speed CD-ROM and an AWE 32 sound card (about a foot long).