What's the most out of date system you have running on a regular basis

[KINGofBLEH]

I run a couple of P2 450mhz NT workstations that i use as mini file servers at work. 128mb RAM/6Gb HDD.

I was running a P2 266 6MB RAM/4Gb HDD until about 3 months ago.

[FatalException0E]

Originally posted by Ya_know
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My oldest is a P133 HP, works great with 80MB and NT server. Unfortunately all of my older hard drives keep failing, and I refuse to put a new one it this old bucket, so when this last drive goes, Out the door the HP will go with it!

http://www.driveguys.com/tabstyle/It...54&cc=IDE&tpc=

Lots of older HDs, good condition, several brands, low prices. We use this at work for drives for some of our older workstations.

Get this: the NEWEST workstation Micros sends out now is running a Celeron 366, with 32MB PC100 on an i810 flex ATX mobo.....6 serial, 10/100 (they still send 10base hubs) and PCMCIA. Several people are still running AMD 586-133s with 8mb parity on their WSs, and I've heard that Micros is still trying to get some sites to dump their 486 based Unix servers....yes, the SERVER, with a 486.

[DonJ]

Originally posted by silencio
Man, I"ve never even heard of an HP-85A

Here's a pic and some basic info:
http://www.vintagecomputers.freeserv...hp80/index.htm

Also, notice the word "old" used throughout my previous post.

[goinpostal]

Cyrix PR266+ (which if i remember runs at 200Mhz cant remember) 32MB ram 850MB HDD 1MB tseng vid card (upgrade from 512K) 2X Creative cdrom. Use it to play around I have Mandrake 7on it now just for kicks.


DonJ do you still use it I could use a boat anchor

[DonJ]

Originally posted by goinpostal
DonJ do you still use it I could use a boat anchor

Yes, I still use it. You know, the government refuses to get rid of anything...as long as they can find somebody to fix it. Of course, we charge an arm and a leg to maintain this old stuff.

[amyb]

We have a Win 95 system with about 50MB worth of HD space. Can't even put antivirus software on it. Drives me crazy, but since it does not have IE on it and only used as a lab machine, I try not to lose sleep over it.

[Deanodriver]

Originally posted by Ya_know
I recall that Intel only made the Pentiums up to 233. Is that like a Cyrix or something that you have there?

for desktops, the 233 was the fastest, however Intel made a 266 and maybe even a 300MHz Pentium MMX for laptops...

my oldest system in use? Pentium 150, 96MB RAM, 3GB HDD, I normally use it as a PC for the net when i'm home from uni, used to run Linux, now runs win2000!

[Ya_know]

Originally posted by Deanodriver
for desktops, the 233 was the fastest, however Intel made a 266 and maybe even a 300MHz Pentium MMX for laptops...

That clears it up! Thanks!

[Low_Level_Owl]

My oldest desktop is a PII 400Mhz w/ 256MB, 6GB, 2MB On-board Video, On-board 10/100 NIC running Windows XP.

I just threw XP on it last night to see how well it would handle it and I was impressed with boot times....less than a minute. And once it loads into Windows, it runs like a champ.

My oldest laptop is a IBM Thinkpad P133Mhz w/ 96MB, 2GB running Windows 98SE. This is what I'm giving my parents to use so then can surf the web at home.

[firemonkey]

I have a lab of 30 machines that are mostly 486 and a few P 90s and one P 133.

I also have a lab of Macs 32 of 5200's (about 6 years old)

I won't get into the LC II's of clasics that I have scattered

[bbtech6650]

1 rs tandy 1000 i think


complete with original aoheLL disks and program disks

it is the tandy that has a hdd

[Outcoded]

Games machine:

386/40, 6Mb RAM, 110Meg Hdd, 512k Trident ISA VGA

[Radical Dreamer]

I got rid of my 4 366 k6-2's each with 192mb ram and 2x 4gb hdd (gave em to kids without machines) so now my slowest machine is one I bartered with rifleman for, 1ghz amd athlon with 384mb ram and a 32mb TNT2 Pro with a 40gb hdd

[Zerotech]

I guess I come in second place for oldest clunker.

I have a mercilessly upgraded IBM XT.

7MHz 8088 CPU w/8087 co-proc.
640K RAM (with the help of an AST RAM/clock card)
20MB MFM hard drive (upgraded from 10MB)
256K VGA video card
Soundblaster 2.0
bus mouse
DOS 5.0 + GeoWorks 1.2

The GeoWorks runs like living death on the system, it's just for the curiosity of actually running a GUI on such an old 8-bit machine.

I'm thinking of installing an old Orchid ProDesigner IIs. It's a 1MB ISA card that's 16-bit with 8-bit compatability.
Almost like today's machines; the video card would have more RAM than the motherboard!

[DonJ]

Here's another machine that I worked on this past week:
HP 2116B Digital Computer, 1969

Another pic.

I was able to get it up 100%. Had to load programs via a paper tape reader...you know, long rolls of punched paper tapes...very up to date and modern.