What is the oldest working computer that you own?

[Warpnow]

Just got rid of my P2 300mhz. PSU died and wasn't worth replacing.


So, now, mmmm, my main PC, in my sig...I guess. My netbook is weaker but newer.

[wilee-nilee]

Thinkpad a21m 700 p3 chip 198 ram, run xubuntu pretty well and puppy like a champ. I don't use it though loaned it to a neighbor and let them use my wifi for free.

[CharlesA]

I've got a 486 50Mhz with 8MB of RAM running Windows 95 that just sits in my closet and acts as a door stop. Still works, but it's slow as hell.

I don't even know if it could run any linux distro with a GUI.

[Legendary_Bibo]

I have a decade old HP machine that had an the highest amount of RAM in its time (512mb), it has XP and hasn't been booted in a long time. I wasn't allowed to use it for my second machine for some odd reason, so I use a Dell Dimension 4600 which has half the RAM a third of the HDD space (40gb), same amount of video (64mb), and is only 7 years old. I get some use out of it. I see why there's no reason to throw away old computers with light distros out there now, they're all becoming user friendly, and they bring life back into old computers. Although I love finding silly nannies who throw away their old computers because of slowdown.

[AjC41]

i have an old KLH Pc with windows 3.x, i dont know much about it like the year. i still havent had much time to mess around on it

[slooksterpsv]

In our garage we have an 8088 running DOS 5.0 I believe. It has 4MB of RAM I believe and a 80MB drive.

We don't use it and it's collecting dust.

[K.Mandla]

They run a Coordinate Measuring Machine that is accurate to ± 1 micron. The data collected in routed into the 486, where a BASIC program translates it into CAD data formats.

Any chance you could show a picture of that? Inquiring minds want to know.

[McRat]

Any chance you could show a picture of that? Inquiring minds want to know.

I'm at home now, I'll try to remember in the AM.

I used to have 4 of the Mitutoyo Z-80 computers (MicroPak 21), but now I'm down to 2. Parts stopped being available 20 years ago.

So one by one, they are getting new controllers as I run out of spares for them.

I will miss them. I unsoldered the CPUs, and replaced them with a faster chip (NEC V20?). I found a Zenith CP/M computer to make backup 8" disks. I found out how to rebuild 8" floppy drives. I found how to adapt modern power supplies into them. I figured out how connect them to an IBM PC by customizing a RS-232<->Parallel Port converter and writing custom software to process the signal.

I am probably the only MicroPak 21 "hacker" in existence as far as I could find. Necessity is a Mother of something.

[TRoe]

There is a S-100 bus Z-80 machine with 8" drives right next to me running. Circa 1980? Mitutoyo.

There is also a 486-33DX (1989?) hooked to it processing it's output. It cost $2200 new with 1mb of ram, Hercules B/W graphics, and a 40mb HDD, made by Zeos.

Both machines run 24hrs a day.

wHHOOOAH!?! Very cool... you guys are making me nostalgic!

I've got an old PowerMac 6500 that can run an earlier version of Yellow Dog linux. Surfs great with Lynx!

OT: I've often considered doing a case mod that guts an old VT100 terminal. (Not that I have one, but I'm always looking at yard sales and auctions)

[dragos240]

hmm..... probably that z80 computer in the back..........