What is your oldest computer?

**CornedBee** · 09-24-2005

Pentium 200 MMX, Win98 installed and running. (My mother uses it.)

I threw out the 133 firewall/web server about a year ago and replaced it with a shiny (and quiet) AthlonXP 2000.

**kawk** · 09-24-2005

I'm actually surprised at how many people have old comps. I've got an old 1986 Zenith/Heath Z-180 laptop that I use regularly. It's got a wopping 640K of RAM, an amazing 720K floppy drive, an an entire 12MB hard drive that doesn't work. I use TC (TurboC) 2.01 on it.

**BobMcGee123** · 09-24-2005

I have a register from a Mark 1 era computer, it weighs about 15 lbs and is several feet tall.

**kawk** · 09-24-2005

Really? Were you on the Mark 1 dev. team?

**BobMcGee123** · 09-24-2005

I said Mark 1 era, I could never pinpoint the exact evolution of what I've got. No, I wasn't on the Mark1 dev team, I'm not that old, considering the Mark1 was a world war 2 era computer, finished just after the second world war actually, designed for computing artilery tables. The register I have was given to me by a university professor friend of mine. It's odd, that an actual Mark1 register (residing at Harvard I believe) would be worth quite a lot of money, but the evolutions of computers immediately after would be worth next to nothing because they didn't represent any sort of profound breakthrough in computing.

**adrianxw** · 09-27-2005

Oldest running now is a 233MHz P-II with Win95 on it.

I used to have a lot of old gear, but got rid of most of it during a period where I was moving house alot. I still have a 4k magnetic core memory unit from a Control Data Cyber-605 mainframe, the "toggle panel" from DEC PDP-11 and a similar unit from an IBM 1130. On the desk in front of me is a gold plated wood mounted key used to lock/unlock the front panel command keys of an SEL 32/77 that I managed for far too many years in the '80's.

**white** · 09-27-2005

I still have my ATARI 600XT with regular tapes

**Shogun** · 09-27-2005

Oldest one I have is an "apple Macintosh " as they seem to want to call it, it still works though not that I ever use it....

**dwks** · 09-27-2005

We should have a museum.

**ober** · 09-28-2005

I have a 400MHz Celeron sitting under my desk that I was going to use as a server, but I never got around to installing an OS on it yet. Maybe one of these days....

**xddxogm3** · 09-29-2005

commodore 64. 1982
still works, but i never use it anymore.
paperweight in my crawlspace
wrote my first basic program on it many moons ago.

**axon** · 09-30-2005

Originally Posted by ober

I have a 400MHz Celeron sitting under my desk that I was going to use as a server, but I never got around to installing an OS on it yet. Maybe one of these days....

I have one too...it's a POS compaq...I hated that computer - had so many problems with it: changed HD twice, burned out a graphics card, the ZIP drive got ******, the USB port didn't awlays work, and finally the CD Drive wouldn't open....

**ober** · 09-30-2005

Mine is my wife's old Gateway. It actually still has all the origional hardware (plus an extra HD I put in and some RAM).

**rockytriton** · 09-30-2005

A Macintosh performa 400. It came with 4mb RAM, 20mb HD, and I think it was a 12mhz processor. I remember when I bought a CD-ROM drive for it, it cost me 400 bucks!