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1997 or something

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My Acer Aspire 9410, which I will be doing some restorations to. I broke the mPCIe slot so I'm left with mini PCI and PCMCIA for expansion.

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my first pc i built when i was like 4 or 5. has an intel pentium 1 (p5) 66mhz processor, 8mb ram ans a 40mb hard drive

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I have a laptop. It has an old Pentium that runs at 433Mhz, has 64MB of ram, ATI 3D Rage GPU. Unfortunately I can't tell what model it is or even if the clock speed of the CPU is correct as I don't have it lying around right now, but I think it was manufactured in 1994-96 or something. The best part is, it still works and I can play Doom and Quake on it :D . I'm keeping this one as an old treasure.

 

I have another a bit newer machine that has AMD Athlon 2800+ (Barton core) CPU, 2GB RAM, Nvidia Geforce FX 5700, time of assembly was sometime in 2003, this pc stuck with me for a long long time, as I had no money to buy a new one, I learned to program on that machine, it still works too. I'd sell it, but it would be for so cheap it's not even worth it, so I just keep it :D

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Don't know if it counts but my case for my current PC is in a case that my grandfather, aunt and now me have owned!! It's like 15-16 years old!!!

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Oldest machine that I own and still worked last I plugged it 2 years ago, was a Pentium 3 with 128MB of RAM.

 

Otherwise there's my "foot rest" under my desk, which is an athlon xp 2800+ with 2GB of RAM... it "should" still work... It was working when I started putting my feet on it anyway.

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Still have a working Packard Bell 286 my parents bought for me in the 1980's.  It has a base clock of 8MHz with a turbo button that increases it to 12MHz, also upgraded the ram from 512kB to 1MB.  If I remember right they paid almost $4k for the complete system including a monitor and dot matrix printer.

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That'd be my test bench which isn't that old...it has a G3220 w/ an Asrock h97 mitx board and 4GB of DDR3. I have a spare 980 G1 Gaming that I'm selling right now that I can throw in it if I really want to. Waiting on a case for it though. 

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1987 IBM DOS clone. 

 

Specs: 

 

8Mhz processor

8MB Hard drive

IBM DOS 5.0

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1987 IBM DOS clone.

Specs:

8Mhz processor

8MB Hard drive

IBM DOS 5.0

Let me guess

Intel 8086 cpu @8mhz

My oldest usable pc is an eMac 1ghz and an eMac 800mhz sitting on a shelf. The oldest pc that i still use sometimes is a 2.26ghz c2d hp prpbook 6730b

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The oldest computer I have is my Blade, had it for 14 months now :P

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1999 Dell Dimension XPS D300. Windows 98, Pentium II @ 300MHz, 64MB RAM, what more could you need?

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apple 2

Same here.

The engine roars but then it gives, but never dies

We don't live we just survive

On the scraps that you throw awaaaaaay

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7 year old iMac G5 with Ubuntu. Use it for doing remote dekstop sessions in the server room. It has never let me down.

 

I have older computers but this is the only one I actually use at least ones a week.

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Acer M8300

Intel Core Quad Q8300 2.6Ghz

4gb Ddr2 1333mhz (maybe its ddr3, no idea), PCI-E 2.0, Sata 3 3gbps

300w

GT310

Windows 7 hom prem

Its from 2010 and i bought it for £100 from a friend. Great price imo :)

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Still have a working Packard Bell 286 my parents bought for me in the 1980's. It has a base clock of 8MHz with a turbo button that increases it to 12MHz, also upgraded the ram from 512kB to 1MB. If I remember right they paid almost $4k for the complete system including a monitor and dot matrix printer.

Could you post a pic??? Love seeing the old hardware!

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Let me guess

Intel 8086 cpu @8mhz

My oldest usable pc is an eMac 1ghz and an eMac 800mhz sitting on a shelf. The oldest pc that i still use sometimes is a 2.26ghz c2d hp prpbook 6730b

I honestly have no idea. I got if for free from some guy who didn't have the space for it.

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My mom bought my family a fairly high end desktop about 15 years ago. Still runs today.

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:'( my current amd sempron pc that i'm using to reply to this thread :'(

Details separate people.

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Not sure exactly how old it is but is launches Windows 3.0.

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1998 iMac G3 blueberry

2001 sony vaio (not sure on the model, but it has an AMD athlon inside)

I'm sure my unles old macintosh powerbook still works, that's older than the G3 but I haven't tried it in a long time.

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DOS???? I'm not familiar with those. If you don't mind could you post a pic of it? Probably know what it is but can't put an image to the name

Disk Operating System. Cant be bothered right now sorry xD it was my aunts but she gave it to me.

They say you are what you eat, but I dont remember eating a legend.

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An Asus k52j with an i3 m250 and a 5470 1gb mobile. Runs win10 alright, harddrive could be thrown at a wall though, really needs an upgrade. 

"The wheel?" "No thanks, I'll walk, its more natural" - thus was the beginning of the doom of the Human race.
Cheese monger.

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