Hello, Though I love having the fastest and the greatest, and am yearning to go to Best Buy and purchase one of the new Terabyte hard drives, I still am passionate about the old legacy systems, the ones that made history. The 386s, the 486s... I personally own a 486 (with Windows 95 though, it was upgraded) and an old Hewlett Packard NetServer LHII with Windows 2000. The server weighs about as much as I do, and takes up a ton of space, but I still keep the old behemoth around (it's name when you go to system properties is Leviathan ) Anybody else out there have any old machines that still run? -Kyle

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You say old??

so how about that - I have still running C64 and SX64 (SX64=C64+CP1541+5" color monitor + flat keyborad and everything in suitecase that weight about 20kg - I don't know but I would say rather rare thing [there are some pictures...], unfortuneatly description is in deutch, so I cannot even read it, but I have it so I need to) till I bought SX64 (that was some year ago - I saw it and I said I have to buy it - it cost me 70$) I had only usual C64...

those two stays near my i686 on which I work... Of course I'm not using it every day since I don't have much time to play with it, but something about once in week, they are 100% working and I'm making all repeirs and conservations allone...

 

 

 

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Wow! I remember using one of those 20 years ago. That's so cool. I wish I had one to play with right now. My C64 is boxed up.

I have a few old Commodore 286 & 386's from the late 80's. I also have my first AMD 486 that can still hum.

Ahhh nostalgia or clutter? I can't decide.

I'd give all of my goofy collection and current 1.3G AMD system for a AMD64 setup with the trimmings. No question.

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Packard bell (I had a funky looking one that i modded into a super comp and sold for 1k our family orignally bought it for 100. theres the old fashion Apple (Which I bought online for 30 dollars and sold it for 800 because I put a LCD in the lug ( You should have seen the size of the projector in there, It weighs like 30 pounds)

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I have a old 166 pentium that i got "custom built" for $1,100 dollars back in 1990. I have windows 3.1 on it, 52x cd drive, and a classic 5 1/4 floppy drive.

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Oldest Intel PC:
IBM XT 8086 - 512 Kilo ram - 30 Mega harddisk
Runs the first version of Microsoft Windows (v1.02) - very slowly by actual standards!

Oldest 8-bit machine:
Apple ][ - 48 Kilo ram - 100 Kilo floppies
Runs the first version of Microsoft Flight Simulator (v1) - scenery drawn with lines - no full rendering on a 1 MHz processor!
Runs the very first spreadsheet application: VisiCalc Download the PC version from the author's website

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Heh, yeah, my 486 has one of the old 5 1/4 floppy drives, a 3 1/4 inch floppy drive, and an old CD-ROM drive (4x, I think!). I have two full boxes of brand new, unused 5 1/4 disks, don't ask me why. I also have 3 other extra 5 1/4 drives, and an old NIC with BNC port (for co-axial cable) somewhere.

-Kyle

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"Mothballed" Systems
- 486DX2 66 MHz from 1993 with 16 MB RAM, VLB SCSI card, 500 MB SCSI HDD, 12x SCSI CD-ROM drive

- Pentium 90 (ex-server) from 1994 with 64 MB RAM, SCSI card, no HDD installed ATM, 24X SCSI CD-ROM drive

Active Systems
- P2 300 MHz hand-built with 196 MB RAM, SCSI Card, 3 SCSI HDDs (16 GB total), SCSI CD-ROM, Matrox Millenium G200 8MB, Dualboots MS-DOS and Linux.

In The Mail
- Commodore 64 with a 1541 FDD

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Oh I've had a few...

In order,

Apple II plus, 1980, 1MHz 6502, 48K RAM with two disk II drives and b/w TV monitor.

Epson Equity-II, Intel 8088 @ 4.7MHz, 256K RAM, 20MB Harddisk

Some old Mitsubishi, similar inside to the Epson.

1990 IBM-AT clone, 33MHz i486, 110MB harddisk, 8MB RAM

Some old IBM "laptop" that's absolutely huge, and has no harddisk, and an 8086 or 80286..

1985 Amiga A1000, 8MHz 68000, 512K RAM

1991 Macintosh LC-II 25MHz 68020, 4MB RAM

1996 Motorola Starmax 3000, 180MHz 603e, 128MB RAM

1998 Power Macintosh G3-233, 32MB RAM

two 2001 iMac DV G3-400 w/ 256MB RAM

2002 IBM-AT clone, P4 @1710MHz., 256MB RAM

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I have 486, and 2 p200 with 32 and 128. my main PC is duron 700 with riva 2 and 128 ram

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