What is the Oldest PC?

[rashdanml]

My dad had a custom built computer from back in 2004. It worked great up until the CPU fried itself. Harddrive and other components work fine.

Also have a Windows 95 machine from 2000. Still runs fine, but it's dismantled, so no longer operational.

My sister's old desktop is still running too. Was purchased in 2005-2006.

And lastly, my old pre-built desktop that I bought in 2007. Still runs like a champ, with a GPU upgrade. Replaced the 8400GS with a 6570.

[gastew15]

I have a nice CM 64 chilling downstairs in a box somewhere

[_ASSASSIN_]

dell dimension 2400 with a Sapphire 128MB ATI R9250 PCI and Windows xp home sp1

yep, same, except for the graphics, nvidia :P

[Lays]

I had a pc we bought from some computer crappy shop thing, it had an Intel celeron 1 core in it, I just took the CPU out the other day, it had something like an nvidia 256gb card, didn't see the name lol, but i think its like from ~2000

[SirReallySam]

Very similar Topic here

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/25396-your-first-system/?hl=%2Bfirst+%2Bbuild#entry343818

[SirReallySam]

But still haha:

 

 

This is the first PC I can remember the name of:

• Packard Bell i-MEDIA Tower.
• Pentium 4, 2.4Ghz Processor.
• 1GB RAM.
• DVD Player - CD Writer.
• Floppy Disk Drive.
• 15" Packard Bell Monitor (monitor has twin speakers that can either attach to the sides of the monitor or stand on their own).
• Anti glare screen for monitor - not shown in picture.
• Packard Bell Mouse and Keyboard.

(Windows XP)

 

but I know my family had one before I used to go on paint all the time XD I think it

was windows 95 anyways

[Badde]

What I got laying in the attic from my very first computer (~1997):

 

Pentium II 233 MHz

a suitable mainbord

4MB PCI video card

Floppy Drive

 

Pieces I lost (or destroyed)

 

32MB SDRAM

the power supply (can't remember what it was)

CD-ROM drive

4GB 5.25" HDD

[Rambo]

My Commodore 64. Still works! Awful graphics though.

[greenroost1445]

some old piece of crap celeron on bga socket something or other

[AMICLG]

That videocard looks brand new is that your actual card or did you get that picture from google?

I googled it but I have the card on my desk an looks brand new as well.

[Tr3vor]

some workstation pc with an i386 processor about 8mb of ram and it has a  coprocessor installed  ... it is working currently but no os as i cannot get a small enough hdd for it to be recognised (needs to be like 128mb or somthing ). 

 

Instead of installing DOS 4.x (hence the 128mb HDD limit) Install DOS 5.0 or 6.22. After that you would have a barrier of 2gb. BUT older BIOSes (up to the mid 486) have a limitation of 504mb due to the lack of LBA. Just take the smallest IDE hard drive you got, put it in another computer. Wipe it an make only one partition, 504mb. Then you should be good to go. Thats what I did with my older 486. It has a 1.2gb HDD in it, but it can only address 504mb of it due to the BIOS limitation.

[obsidian1200]

Oldest computer would officially be this really old calculator with a printer, which has the labels worn off the chasis.

 

Oldest PC would be an iBook laptop, which was a summer project a few years back to see what kind of performance I could squeeze from it.

[MsTrMind]

My main laptop was until about a year ago an IBM Thinkpad T43 from back in 2000 :)

Only upgraded the ram from 512MB to 2Gb. This was one beast of a laptop! You could litteraly pour a glass of water in and it wouldn't stop functioning!

 

I use it currently in my bathroom to stream movies to, it is running Windows 7.

[Chevaishr]

I had a pc we bought from some computer crappy shop thing, it had an Intel celeron 1 core in it, I just took the CPU out the other day, it had something like an nvidia 256gb card, didn't see the name lol, but i think its like from ~2000

werrrrrrrrrrrr 256gb ... 12k gaming was no problem back then huh  :lol:

[Chevaishr]

Instead of installing DOS 4.x (hence the 128mb HDD limit) Install DOS 5.0 or 6.22. After that you would have a barrier of 2gb. BUT older BIOSes (up to the mid 486) have a limitation of 504mb due to the lack of LBA. Just take the smallest IDE hard drive you got, put it in another computer. Wipe it an make only one partition, 504mb. Then you should be good to go. Thats what I did with my older 486. It has a 1.2gb HDD in it, but it can only address 504mb of it due to the BIOS limitation.

yup that is the problem, the bios cannot recognise large hdds. ... and i may give what you are saying a go.

[Tr3vor]

yup that is the problem, the bios cannot recognise large hdds. ... and i may give what you are saying a go.

 

 

It may not work with a hard drive bigger than 8gb though.

[Chevaishr]

It may not work with a hard drive bigger than 8gb though.

i supposed to have a 1.6 gb one lying around... it at first had windows ME  :wacko:  but then i put win 95 on it 

[Tr3vor]

i supposed to have a 1.6 gb one lying around... it at first had windows ME  :wacko:  but then i put win 95 on it 

That one should work nicely.

 

but use DOS 6.22 ;)

[Chevaishr]

while it was operational i believe that was the os it had... also that board was huge and it had 8 sticks of ram (each 1mb)

... hmmm i lost all my diskets,

That one should work nicely.

but use DOS 6.22 ;)

wonder if one can just go and download dos 6.22 without it being illegal

[Tr3vor]

while it was operational i believe that was the os it had... also that board was huge and it had 8 sticks of ram (each 1mb)

... hmmm i lost all my diskets,

wonder if one can just go and download dos 6.22 without it being illegal

 

At this point I don't think anyone cares, Dos almost has no uses now and MS doesn't sell it, but that's all I'm gonna say.

[Art Vandelay]

I have an HP RP-5700 POS (not what you think it means) system. It has a pentium dual core.

 

I'm running a Gmod server off of it.

[Chuck Norris]

while it was operational i believe that was the os it had... also that board was huge and it had 8 sticks of ram (each 1mb)

... hmmm i lost all my diskets,

wonder if one can just go and download dos 6.22 without it being illegal.

They actually had a download link on microsofts website for dos 6.22. It seems they took it off though. There are still machines that run dos 6.22 like p.o.s systems. So they probably don't care about piracy when it comes to dos. 

[Kerplex]

Hmmm i don't really have any old ones laying around anymore. Only old thing i have left is a Toshiba Satellite P30  laptop (2005 yay)

 

It was almost 4 grand at the time i got it.... wow now that i think about it.

[Chuck Norris]

while it was operational i believe that was the os it had... also that board was huge and it had 8 sticks of ram (each 1mb)

... hmmm i lost all my diskets,

wonder if one can just go and download dos 6.22 without it being illegal

I have the install files for dos 6.22. I could send them to you if you want.

[zapashark]

The oldest computer I still have is a dell where the screen's bezel is literally falling off (from 10+ years ago). The oldest one that I know the name of is an HP pavillion special edition with some Core 2 Du0 and an 8400M GS. Here's a link from when it was new- http://laptops.webhostingoverview.com/2007/07/14/laptops-hp-pavilion-dv6500-special-edition/