Whos running the oldest PC?

chunter

900 MHz Pentium 3 Compaq SFF running XP. I'm typing this on it now. Used for Thunderbird, Firefox and it's slowly developed into a file and printer server over the years. Reformatted it about 6-7 years ago and put a 40gb drive in it. Never had a bother with it since. The speakers are from a Time pc I bought in the mid 90s for about 1000 pounds.

Ratboy

Cycrow wrote: »

maybe you need to get your facts straight

486's were not available in the late 90's
i had a 486sx 25 in 92, i had a 486 DX4 120 in 95

The intel 8086 was released in 1978 (which im pretty sure is in the 70's)

the late 90's was when the pentiums were around
infact, i even had a 6x86 in the late 90's

486 was not available in the late '90s, but then state you had some in the '90's...

I've even got one or two, so what you talking about? with date stamps saying the date. grow up, and do your research!

VoucherMan

Ratboy wrote: »

I bet the manufacturers wishes that 3/486 was available in the '80's!!!! not available until (486), till late 90's

Ratboy wrote: »

486 was not available in the late '90s, but then state you had some in the '90's...

I've even got one or two, so what you talking about? with date stamps saying the date. grow up, and do your research!

I think you'll find the reply was referring to your previous comment saying they were not available until the late 90's.

Perhaps if the reply had read

Cycrow wrote: »

maybe you need to get your facts straight

486's were not first available in the late 90's

You'd be happier?

Personally I have no experience as I was still using my trusty Commodore then but there are sites which back up his comment

Intel's venerable 486 CPU is now 15-years-old. Intel began working on the 486 in the early 1980s, and introduced the chip in April of 1989.

Produced From 1989 to 2007

Cycrow

Ratboy wrote: »

486 was not available in the late '90s, but then state you had some in the '90's...

I've even got one or two, so what you talking about? with date stamps saying the date. grow up, and do your research!

i think you're the one that needs to grow up

AshleyPomeroy

The oldest machine I still occasionally use is a Toshiba 320CDT laptop from 1998. Toshiba still hosts the product support page (which must be a record in itself):
http://www.toshiba-europe.com/bv/computers/products/notebooks/satellite320cdt/index.shtm

It's a 233mhz Pentium, currently running Windows 95. The hard drive has a massive "4.1 billion byte capacity":



A fresh install of Windows 95 takes up 72mb, vs (if I recall correctly) around 14gb for a fresh install of Windows 8. I had forgotten that you needed a boot floppy in order to install Windows 95 - these old machines don't boot from the CD or the USB port. And so I had to buy a box of floppy discs from eBay. The last time I bought floppy discs, John Major was prime minister. And Peter Andre was a comical teen-pop star.

Reason I use it is because I have a Game Boy Camera, the original black-and-white 128x112 pixel model. I still have a special cable that connects my Game Boy Colour to a serial port, but the software only works with an actual Windows 95 installation connected to a real serial port - I have tried virtual machines with no luck - and I happened to have the 320CDT in a cupboard somewhere. It's built like a brick, I suspect it will outlast me.



Windows 95 OSR2.1 there. 48mb memory, which was bog-standard even in 1998. The melancholic thing is that it boots and loads up Word '97 in much the same time that my vastly more powerful desktop machine boots and loads LibreOffice. Here's the "folder options" dialogue, which is tiny:



My next-oldest machine is an IBM ThinkPad 600X from late 1999, made in Scotland. It has a 500mhz Pentium III and 578mb memory and it runs XP and Firefox just tolerably. Originally cost £2,000+ (and with half a gigabyte of memory in 1999 it would have been eye-watering), I got it for £20. It's incredibly well-made but sadly obsolete, although it runs Linux Mint fairly well.

Maestro.

AshleyPomeroy wrote: »

My next-oldest machine is an IBM ThinkPad 600X from late 1999, made in Scotland.

It was most likely produced in the now defunct Spango Valley building, over in Inverclyde. They closed that place a few years ago but their call centre is still hosted very close as far as I know.

That whole area is like a little Silicon valley, with some other tech related companies and a rather large Amazon.co.uk warehouse.

The oldest computer I have in the house at the moment would be a Commodore 64. It belongs to my OH, who also has several Amiga computers. I've also got an old Mac from 1992 (made in Ireland) and a Toshiba 486 laptop.

Do I win?

zagubov

SingleSue wrote: »

Youngest has an Apple Imac G4 from circa 2002, purchased it late last year and it works perfectly.

My main computer is an Apple tower from 2002, a PowerPC model.

I run OSX Tiger (10.4) and Leopard (10.5). Upgrading to Leopard was utterly pointless and annoying as it stopped running all my old suer-friendly mac software.

Runs an office suite called Appleworks which is amazingly fast and useful. Also have Office 2004 (Office 2008's a bit rubbish) on it, plus a few old browsers; TenFourFox (like Firefox), Roccat (like nothing else I've see and Webkit(Safari). TenFourBird takes care of the email.

Stutters a bit when streaming telly. But maxed the memory and stuck in a 400Gb hard drive. Can sync files with Dropbox and Sugarsync on it.

Don't want to upgrade it in a hurry. When you upgrade macs you lose all sorts of good old programmes.

My first mac had a single half-density flopy disk (0.72 of a Mb) which contained Photoshop 1.0!

Ratboy

AshleyPomeroy wrote: »

The oldest machine I still occasionally use is a Toshiba 320CDT laptop from 1998. Toshiba still hosts the product support page (which must be a record in itself):
http://www.toshiba-europe.com/bv/computers/products/notebooks/satellite320cdt/index.shtm

It's a 233mhz Pentium, currently running Windows 95. The hard drive has a massive "4.1 billion byte capacity":



A fresh install of Windows 95 takes up 72mb, vs (if I recall correctly) around 14gb for a fresh install of Windows 8. I had forgotten that you needed a boot floppy in order to install Windows 95 - these old machines don't boot from the CD or the USB port. And so I had to buy a box of floppy discs from eBay. The last time I bought floppy discs, John Major was prime minister. And Peter Andre was a comical teen-pop star.

Reason I use it is because I have a Game Boy Camera, the original black-and-white 128x112 pixel model. I still have a special cable that connects my Game Boy Colour to a serial port, but the software only works with an actual Windows 95 installation connected to a real serial port - I have tried virtual machines with no luck - and I happened to have the 320CDT in a cupboard somewhere. It's built like a brick, I suspect it will outlast me.



Windows 95 OSR2.1 there. 48mb memory, which was bog-standard even in 1998. The melancholic thing is that it boots and loads up Word '97 in much the same time that my vastly more powerful desktop machine boots and loads LibreOffice. Here's the "folder options" dialogue, which is tiny:



My next-oldest machine is an IBM ThinkPad 600X from late 1999, made in Scotland. It has a 500mhz Pentium III and 578mb memory and it runs XP and Firefox just tolerably. Originally cost £2,000+ (and with half a gigabyte of memory in 1999 it would have been eye-watering), I got it for £20. It's incredibly well-made but sadly obsolete, although it runs Linux Mint fairly well.

Type ver in the DOS prompt...to confirm? Yours is Photoshop.

gingerdad

we have a Powermac 7100 from the mid 90's in the attic along with a 486 laptop and a P1-133 laptop, P3-900 Dell inspiron

our home desk top is a P4 cira 2004 and one of my kids is using a dell inspiron 1100 laptop from 2003.

used to work for a courier company who's back end system was on an old digital system that the only way they good get bits for it was ebay.

also allot of large companies are slower at upgrading systems which may be massive, UPS (the courier company) where using a windows 3.11 system in 2003/4

all our office PC's are 2006/7 - all run quick enough for what we do - mostly webbased and MS Office 2003, still all running XP pro, and we have a couple of older ones - we are planning an upgrade but not till end of next year when MS stop supporting XP

168hourweek

Hi All
Mine had is 14th birthday in Febuary