Whos running the oldest PC?

bod1467

Still use the old desktop machine I built in 2005. (AMD X64 3000+ CPU)

Still have (and would work if I rebuilt it) my first desktop machine I bought in 2001. (Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz)

rmg1

My OH's machine has just given up the ghost after 13 years (or so).
I bought it from Time/Tiny just before they went bust. I upgraded the graphics card and the RAM but that was about it.
It'll be resurrected when I fit a new HDD and get round to reinstalling XP on it (and then removing all the crap that comes with a manufacturers disc).

Btw, my first "PC" was 8086 machine with (from memory) 4MB RAM (if not less) and a 320MB HDD. It had to run DOS 3.1 (I think it was) as anything newer came on compressed floppy discs that it couldn't read.

Can't remember the processor though.

Avoriaz

Sinclair ZX 81 here.

rmg1

Was that the one with the rubber keys?
If so, I used to have one of those.

esuhl

My main PC is five years old... It has a Core i7 CPU, 6GB RAM and is still the fastest PC I've ever used! (Not that I get to use many others these days.)

I still have a 1GHz PIII running Windows XP that works perfectly well as a headless print server.

Coopdivi

I'm typing this on my abacus.

NiftyDigits

rmg1 wrote: »

My OH's machine has just given up the ghost after 13 years (or so).
I bought it from Time/Tiny just before they went bust. I upgraded the graphics card and the RAM but that was about it.
It'll be resurrected when I fit a new HDD and get round to reinstalling XP on it (and then removing all the crap that comes with a manufacturers disc).

Btw, my first "PC" was 8086 machine with (from memory) 4MB RAM (if not less) and a 320MB HDD. It had to run DOS 3.1 (I think it was) as anything newer came on compressed floppy discs that it couldn't read.

Can't remember the processor though.

Get on with it. Get a HDD for under a fiver. You don't need to use the original XP disc to reinstall XP, especially if it's an SP1 disc. You could slipstream the service packs in, but again more messing around. When it comes to it I talk you through an easier process.

bod1467

I actually still have my Dragon 32 tucked away in the loft. It still works.

Johnmcl7

My oldest machine still in general use is a Sony TX1HP which was an ultralight from 2004 and one of the first machines to have an LED backlit display. It's very small and light but the reason it still gets use is that unlike current Ultrabook machines the old Sony packs so much in as it still has standard VGA and ethernet sockets, accessible ram sockets, replaceable battery (the upgraded battery on mine is an impressive 13,000 Mah while the standard one was still a generous 8,000 Mah) and onboard optical drive. I find it frustrating that its modern day equivalent (the Vaio Pro 11) and rivals are a similar size and weight but don't have replaceable batteries, the ram can't be accessed, they have few standard ports and no optical drive.

John

Carfal

My dad is still using my old Sony Vaio laptop, bought in 2000. Mind you, the word "running" implies a degree of speediness which the machine certainly doesn't have.

My mum, meanwhile, has a PC and monitor from the "Trigger's broom" school of replacement: the monitor broke, so she got a new one, then the CPU was replaced, the keyboard has just been updated etc. She's had it over 13 years, although no individual part is >7 years old.