Obsolete Computers 'n Stuff.

[lisati]

Sorry about the fuzzy picture, I'm still finding my way around photo editing tools on Ubuntu. The pic is of my old desktop, which I've had about 10 years - the BIOS is dated some time round 1996. It came with Win98SE, a 1Gb hard drive and 64Mb of RAM, and runs at 133MHz. I replaced the origial HDD with a 3Gb unit, and more recently pulled out the sound card and modem to give it USB and ethernet. It's currently got a CLI installation of Ubuntu 6.06. The monitor's a bit unreliable and doesn't always work. It's a bit slower than what I've gotten used to - it takes about 3 minutes to boot into a usable state, but at least it works!

[handy]

Argh! The 5.25 is a quantum bigfoot! They were the worst drives I ever used.

There were some 3.5" HDDs that came from India some time around 7 or 8 years ago. From memory they had the the top face of the drive glued on & they were half as thick as ordinary 3.5 drives are. They were the worst drives I ever came across. Their life expectancy was very short.

I remember the bigfoot as slow.

[llawwehttam]

Sadly I chucked out most of my old stuff recently, had a rig from 1994, still kept the windows 3.1 install floppy's and the dos floppy but this was one of the older things I kept:

[Yanno]

pretty old guys ahha!!!

[K.Mandla]

I moderate the forums with this:



Pentium 120Mhz running Crux Linux and 2.6.34. Techy details here.

[mr.farenheit]

i need a pic of my ti-994a

[Mark76]

http://i.imgur.com/t5ngc.jpg

You're related to Richard Attenborough?

[Guitar John]

This is my old Dell Inspiron 3500. I bought it new in 1999. It was my first computer.

Specs then: Win98, 6 GB, 366 MHz, 32 MB

Specs now: Puppy 431, 60 GB, 366 MHz, 256 MB

When I took the picture, it was running Xubuntu 8.04, which ran really slow but it did run. Puppy is much faster on it.

[WinterRain]

I want a commodore 64. I think it would be cool to play around with.

[witeshark17]

Those are so cool; now Ima go looking in second hand stores and see what I can find...