Who got the oldest computer-contest! ;-)

[Trenchfriend]

Yesterday morning, the power-adapter of my 2012´s Toshiba-notebook died, new adapter is already ordered.

So, I´m actual working on my Compaq Presario desktop-PC from 1999, with 500 MHz-Pentium III-processor and 384MB-SD RAM, WinXP Home.

Who will top this?

 

[BobHufford]

Got me beat. My oldest is our Apple iMac G4 (Flower Pot) from 2002.

Bob

 

[HudsonHawk]

I'm not working on it now, but I have one of these:

I think it has 512K of memory and a 20MB hard drive.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I have one of those in a Rubbermaid bin down cellar. Belonged to my ex, and I haven't looked at it in at least fourteen years. What am I bid?

My regular computer is an Apple Power Mac G4 "mirror door" from 2002, and the laptop I use in the projection booth at work is a "titanium" PowerBook from the same year. The latter is held together with duct tape, because "titanium" is Jobspeak for "crappy pot metal." I got both of these second or third hand.

I also have my first computer, a PowerMac 4400/200 from 1997, on a shelf under my desk. I used to use it to print things up until the printer died. Now I just don't bother or use the printer at work.

I use a Burroughs Portable adding machine from 1931 for doing the bills. That's kind of a computer.

 

[Benproof]

You guys win.

The gerbil powered Compaq running Windows 3.1 with an internet expansion hack finally died and forced me to upgrade.

 

[Stanley Doble]

I've got a Sinclair but don't use it.

 

[tonyb]

Got me beat. My oldest is our Apple iMac G4 (Flower Pot) from 2002.

Bob

I got one of those too. It's in the box it came in new. It still works, but it makes noises and runs reeeeaaaallll slow. I took the advice of people with nothing to gain by it that I ought to back up everything on that machine I cared about and either get it overhauled at greater cost than it likely warranted or to replace the thing. I did the latter, four or five years ago.

Now I got one of those Intel iMacs, which I use less than my iPad and iPhone. If I were writing a whole lot, on deadline, as I used to, I'd get something newer -- with a full-size keyboard and a screen I can see from a couple three feet away.

Always liked the way those bowling ball iMacs looked, though. And I liked the easy and extensive adjustability of the monitor. You can show the person seated alongside what you are working on without either of you having to get out of your chair.


Hell, maybe I will get it overhauled.

Nah.

 

[tonyb]

My first computer was something I can't even remember the name of. It ran on an operating system called "Dash 88" (which those in the know called "trash 88") and used truly floppy disks and had a monochrome green monitor with a flashing cursor.

I was told the thing cost a few thousand dollars new but I got it for something like 50 bucks. For my purposes, it was a typewriter that allowed a lousy typist such as me to more easily correct his mistakes.

It got stolen, which spared me the trouble of throwing it away.

 

[robrinay]

I've got a 2002 eMac in the cellar and it still works. My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 but I sold that many years ago. The first proper computer I used was a Goldstar pc that worked on DOS - no windows and as a teacher I used a BBC computer I remember I used to tell kids how to use its *anagram feature - it would generate anagrams of words - one wise guy grinned and typed in NEWARK much to our embarrassment and amusement.

 

[Stearmen]

Not sure how old mine is. I built it out of parts in the late 90s, Windows 98, but, I have upgraded it right along, Windows 7 now. This will be my last PC, not much reason for it, I don't play games, or movies. Like others said, the new pads will do almost everything my PC will do and soon, if not already, they will have 2.5 terabytes of storage, which I am only using a sliver of anyway!

 

[GHT]

Computers have names? And there was me thinking that they were called effing thing! It's not in use but I still have a mid eighties Commodore 64. What an awful gizmo that thing was. You could make a hot drink by the time it got onto the next page.

 

[Trenchfriend]

My C64c ("doorstopper-wedge") would surely working again, if I would take it up, from cellar. I mean, it´s so basic computing-electronic. What should bust in this simple thing? We bought it in 1992.

Last time, I was playing with it, was 2012. The problem with it are just all it´s kiddish old-times-games with this lack of appeal to play again.

But, who knows?
Maybe, one day, I could go secure, search, find and reactivate a compatible needle-printer, like our old adapted Epson LX400 from the 90s (or 80´s) and go back to our old C64 + needle-printer-"working horse", which was absolute reliable, in compare to Windows XP.

But, surely, I could equal spare on electricity and grab my mechanical typewriters.

 

[Trenchfriend]

With my 17 years-old Compaq, it feels like the Mokka from the Bialetti.

Training your patience.

 

[MikeKardec]

I have a Curta calculator like this one ...



But I don't try to talk to you guys on it!

 

[LuvMyMan]

My oldest computer is an old HP. Purchased in 1994. I used it until recently purchased a new HP. I like the new HP I have as it is not slow, has a lot of memory to help keep it going, 1TB, and 8GB Ram. However I went to Windows 10 on it, Now my new printer will not function properly and not sure if it is the printer or the Windows 10 that has it all messed up. It "locks up" when I go to scan. Refuses to go all the way through the "print doctor" trouble shooting and I have spent a good week trying to down load, wipe, do all sorts of things to get it to print...nothing worked so I have no printer now...it only prints part of a line of what it should be printing instead of the entire line. I cannot even get it to do the alignment check to see if that would take care of the darn thing.

For being mobile, myself and Daniel have HTC One phones and I have a RCA Maven with a Keyboard! I love it! it is the bigger screen Maven model and when I am on WiFi it works fairly fast without any lag at all being online with it.

 

[sheeplady]

I know where there's a TANDY from the mid eighties being stored, but it's not mine.

I'm pretty aggressive about getting rid of the old tech I no longer use, they recycle it, I don't have to deal with it. I keep my older laptop as a back up when I get a new one.

We do have a windows xp desktop from 2002 still running we used to network our printer off of, which we need to wipe and recycle. The monitor is from 1999.

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

 

[Trenchfriend]

@KILO NOVEMBER

Yep!

 

[jeanramar]

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[LuvMyMan]

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Now THAT looks like the winner for old computer so far! haha!