What is the oldest PC you own?

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  1. DavidinCT

    DavidinCT MDL Addicted

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    David34 MDL Member

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    I don't use them anymore since ages but still keeping.

    1. Commodore C-64
    2. Atari ZX Spectrum
     
  3. T-S

    T-S MDL Guru

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    :g::g:

    You look confused :D
     
  4. ausernamenoonehas

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  5. Uky

    Uky MDL Novice

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    Some time ago, I was given a ASUS 775 MB that someone tried to make a BIOS update on
    using W7-x64. The only problem was that the ASUS Windows-software for that
    model only worked using W7-x86. The board died completely.

    Luckily, there was information on the internet, that
    a lonely connector on the board was for JTAG, and that the BIOS could be flashed
    using downloadable software and a JTAG-cable from the LPT-port. This JTAG software
    ran under MSDOS. So I had to take out an old ISA-bus computer from ca 1995 and
    load the software and the BIOS image into it. It came alive, and about an hour later after
    some tweaks that involved reflashing the BIOS using an USB-port, it was alive and well.

    :rolleyes:

    Never ever trow away MSDOS-hardware!
     
  6. TuuS

    TuuS MDL Novice

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    I had a Tandy original TRS-80, it was the sadest excuse for a PC you can imagine, but also had a comadore 64, original ibm pc, an XT, but the oldest I still own today is an IBM ps2 model p70 luggable, which predate a laptop and if you're not sure what this is just google it.

    ps. it was originally designed to run dos on an intel i386dx, but I had it running an amd 586 chip and scsi harddrive, but it's been collecting dust for a couple decades now
     
  7. Michaela Joy

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  8. johnandtroy

    johnandtroy MDL Novice

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    Well, if we are talking Windows, it is an Alienware Aurora but not sure which one. Currently running Mint 17.3. Got it for $5 at a garage sale.
    The other one is an xW4300 Workstation from HP. I am installing Win2000 on it now, because of some old games that Win 7 cannot handle. Got it for free from my church.

    If we are talking Mac, it would be a Mac SE/30 running MacOS6.
     
  9. Bat.1

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  10. bpwnes

    bpwnes MDL Member

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    If you check task manager, your CPU should be capped if you're getting stuttering. Only way around that would be to get a more powerful processor or maybe a GPU upgrade and use software that has GPU rendering (I'm not positive this would work well enough). My laptop had issues playing 1080p60 with it's i5, so I put an i7QM in it and now it plays them fine.
     
  11. Bat.1

    Bat.1 MDL Expert

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    Yea, it stays at 100%. I improved the 720p play a lot by moving the vids from a USB drive onto the internal but it still wasn't good enough. Changing settings in VLC doesn't help. Guess the old single core just can't handle it :( Still works good enough as a TV and Web Surfer so I'll just leave it as is.
     
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  12. ruellesmith

    ruellesmith MDL Novice

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    I own a laptop from 2006. It was the oldest I guest. It was Intel Intel Core2Duo P8600 with 2GB RAM, 500gb hdd and nVidia Geforce 9600 M GS only.
     
  13. Dngrsone

    Dngrsone MDL Novice

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    I have a motherboard in my garage/museum that came with an external cache module... so that's about eighteen years old. I also have a 5.25 floppy drive with floppies... may still have copies of SpinRite from 1995 to go with it.

    My oldest working computer is eight years old, though there are a couple 286 machines at work, running DOS 6/Win 3.1 that we have to use because no one wants to spend the money to upgrade our repair bench (not that it is all that likely that there is a more modern version of the software, now that I think about it...).
     
  14. Abbyjack

    Abbyjack MDL Novice

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    I just had to throw this one in here. :biggrin: hxxps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYM-1
    Still have it and was working great the last time I powered it up.
    It came with 256 bytes of ram and expandable to 1K on board.
    We've come a long ways since those days...
     
  15. Tiger-1

    Tiger-1 MDL Guru

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    yay dude good luck with your machines works fine and :welcome: to MDL
     
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