Oldest Hardware in your PC build.

[DurgeDriven]

Creative Soundworks DTT3500 Digital Desktop Theatre 5.1

Paid $600AUD( :nurse: lol ) 10th of June, 2001.

Still sound like new. :thumbup:

http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-SoundWorks-DeskTop-Theater-DTT3500/dp/B000068PJA

[redi]

With my PC, it's the operator, built in 1972 :mrgreen:

Seriously though, since I bought a completely new PC two months or so ago, for me it's also the speakers. Some Logitech 5.1 set I forgot the product name of :P

EDIT It's the Logitech Z-640.

[guybo]

I have z5300 speakers that are about 7 or 8 years old. I have a few peripherals that are 4 or 5 years old. Inside the case the pc is 3 years old and nothings older than that.

[markspeed]

I can't quite say for certain, but my PC is a Gateway from 08, the keyboard is a microsoft ergo which is probably like from 05, a logitech trackball mouse which I can't find a build date for, and Altec Lansing speakers which are probably from like 2001 maybe 02.

[Siggs]

This PC was a new build only about 16 months ago, so I'm excluded on this rig :lol:

But my home(now 'family') PC was custom built by a company nearly 7 years ago now, and the only thing that's original in it is a hdd and the case. Me being the age I was, I though big windows and lots of neon lights was cool on a computer...oh, how wrong I was :mrgreen:

Original spec;
P4 2.4Ghz
512Mb ram
128Mb Nvidia Ti4200
250Gb hdd

Spec now (uncahnged in a long time mind you);
Core 2 E6750 OC'd @3.2Ghz
4Gb OCZ ram
512Mb HD4850
1.5Tb hdd

Monitor wise, it started off with a single 15" crt, then a 17", then dual 17" crt's (!!!) and now a 22" samsung lcd.

That computer is the definition of 'evolutionary upgrading'

[Klapaucjusz]

Pfft! :P Take this:

Pentium 166 (without MMX)
48 MB RAM
Matrox Millenium 1MB
Sound Blaster 1024 Live!
4.3GB HDD
4x speed CD (read only)
3.5" FDD
no USB, FW and all that fancy stuff :P
Windows 98SE

Built in 1993. It's still in use!!!


In my main setup it would be a keyboard - Samsung multimedia keyboard bought in 2000, but it's slowly giving up, and I think I'll buy something new this year. :(

[gtrNL]

In: Everything. I bought it all at the same time, except for the GFX card, which has been refreshed. That BTW means it's all summer of '08.

But I will upgrade it this summer, which means the oldest will be the case (big, with lots of lights), one HDD and the PSU.

Out: Mouse. Classic Logitech G5. Still one of the best mouses out there.

[Rudyman]

Pfft! :P Take this:

Pentium 166 (without MMX)
Built in 1993. It's still in use!!!


Pffffft.


My 'regular' simracing rig is a 2010 Mac mini, so it's not that old, but I've still got the working Acorn BBC and Commodore 64 that I used to run the very first sim in history on ('Revs'), around 1983. :-P


(Not to mention the Apple-I era KIM-1 from 1976, the C64's predecessor, which still worked the last time I turned it on. Although I doubt it'd be that great for 3D games ;) )

[gtrNL]

Ooh, my not-everyday-rig is also allowed?

Well, say hello to my little Stylistic 1200 by Fujitsu.

16MB of Ram
1MB of Video RAM
640 x 480 screen

And best of all.

It's a tablet.
http://pr.fujitsu.com/jp/news/1997/Jul/ST1200.jpg

Yeah. Wave goodbye with your stupid iPad.*

*: Tablet requires an external keyboard.

I also have a Commedore 64 on the attic. Works great and I have a lot of games.

[Klapaucjusz]

I've still got the working Acorn BBC and Commodore 64 that I used to run the very first sim in history on ('Revs'), around 1983. :-P


(Not to mention the Apple-I era KIM-1 from 1976, the C64's predecessor, which still worked the last time I turned it on. Although I doubt it'd be that great for 3D games ;) )
Do you still use them? I don't mean turning on, once in a while, to see if they're still working. ;)

[AndreiRS]

If it counts, a microsoft precision 2, pretty destroyed haha, still work a lot better than any el cheapo.

[DurgeDriven]

Do you still use them? I don't mean turning on, once in a while, to see if they're still working. ;)

Was meant to be everyday sim tower parts but interesting to hear about
old hardware has a warm place in heart.

Thats the main reason my DTT3500's have lasted 10 years.

Have a mate drives me crazy asked for years I want to sell them, he offered me 150AUD just recently. But what would I buy with that to replace them ?
Nothing for that money be as good even 10 years after..... ;-)

[Eyghon(NG)]

Creative DTT2200 Speakers, 12 years old and counting, they have seen many system re-builds over the years, the last one being just over a year ago.

[Mati]

My old PC which has been used for about 7 years (bought in 2002), has this specifications:

AMD Duron 1GhZ
128 MB Ram
GeForce 2 32mb :D
32 GB HDD

He's still working, but now he's somewhere in my basement :laugh:

[CX650]

Apart from my video card, nothing has been replaced except for component failure. This machine was hand built by my friend Daniel and myself in spring 2004. I'm even still using 2000 Pro. LOL

[pitradio]

Pfft! :P Take this:

Pentium 166 (without MMX)
48 MB RAM
Matrox Millenium 1MB
Sound Blaster 1024 Live!
4.3GB HDD
4x speed CD (read only)
3.5" FDD
no USB, FW and all that fancy stuff :P
Windows 98SE

Built in 1993. It's still in use!!!



In my main setup it would be a keyboard - Samsung multimedia keyboard bought in 2000, but it's slowly giving up, and I think I'll buy something new this year. :(

Impossible since the pentium 166 was first available in 1996. Same goes for the HDD, back then in 1993 200MB was a nice disk. 4x CD-player? Nope, dual-speed. Also chances that a motherboard from 1993 accepts 48MB is not believable.


I got a real 1992 system still in use..
486 50MHz
4MB internal
200MB HDD
dualspeed CD-player
Trident graphics
Mozart sound card

Another one I got, is a 1994 system
486DX4 100MHz
16MB internal
2GB HDD
8 speed CD-player
It has some huge VESA slot graphics
Soundblaster sound card

I also got a laptop from that time, I believe it's a 1995 laptop..
486DX4 75MHz
8MB internal
540MB HDD
no DVD-player
no sound
640*480
Yep, it works, tho the battery is dead..

Current pc oldest parts?
Speakers 2x kenwood 60W RMS each..

[CX650]

Impossible since the pentium 166 was first available in 1996. Same goes for the HDD, back then in 1993 200MB was a nice disk. 4x CD-player? Nope, dual-speed. Also chances that a motherboard from 1993 accepts 48MB is not believable.

Probability is noted but so is rude accusation. Suggestion of error is fine. Outright statement is impolite even if correct.

p.s. sorry to be so English. :mrgreen:

[Siggs]

http://cpu-museum.de/?a=i&f=f&s=t&id=0191&n=Cyrix+Cx486DX2-66GP+front

out of the first PC I ever used...I used to play Geoff Crammonds Grand Prix on that thing....it's not still in use, I wanted to use the cpu as a paperweight, but it's too damn light! :D

wish it was still working

[DurgeDriven]

Apart from my video card, nothing has been replaced except for component failure. This machine was hand built by my friend Daniel and myself in spring 2004. I'm even still using 2000 Pro. LOL

You would love the DTT3500's :)

Because of the anomaly (they handle only 4 channel analog in, something I overlooked ) they are only at their best with the SB Platium Live+frontend+ sppif backplate ....... in my cupboard.

Via the sdpif the Platium scrambled anything to 6 speakers and it sounded so good. I have since had at least 6 sound cards attached to them and nothing comes even close unless you compare straight fourpoint (quad) quallity.

Off course the catch, you need XP or earlier to run it / them proper. :(

[markspeed]

Pfft! :P Take this:

Pentium 166 (without MMX)
48 MB RAM
Matrox Millenium 1MB
Sound Blaster 1024 Live!
4.3GB HDD
4x speed CD (read only)
3.5" FDD
no USB, FW and all that fancy stuff :P
Windows 98SE

Built in 1993. It's still in use!!!


In my main setup it would be a keyboard - Samsung multimedia keyboard bought in 2000, but it's slowly giving up, and I think I'll buy something new this year. :(


Something new! Like a Thinking Machine Laptop with the 686 Artificial Intellegence Risk Chip and a 28.8bps modem? :-P

[gtrNL]

For all your C64 lovers out there.
http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx

I want this. Badly.

[markspeed]

Peripheral to computers, I have a working VHS cassette player/recorder(hey kids ever heard of those?), my PS1 still functions flawlessly. And I also have a Ninetendo N64 that no longer seems to boot up, and a SNES which does, but I don't have any games or controllers for it. Gotta source those sooner or later.

Oh and I still use the VCR often, I even tape shows and movies with it. And in the most bizarre form of backwards tech, I've even taped some of my favorite cartoons rented from Netflicks on DVD onto VHS tapes. How backwards is that?

[nigelfortune]

Pentium 4.2.4 GhZ
1 GB RAM
RADEON HIS 9550 256 Mb
Sound blaster Pro.

Holding on for dear life! ;-)

[Ralph_B]

Still in daily use to browse the net - I'm writing this lines with it:

AMD 700mhz (overclocked to 800mhz), 512mb Ram, Grafics 3dfx Voodoo3, OS WinMe, build in 1999. The HDD is some years younger and with 70GB ways over the standart of that time. And I replaced the initial 12x CD-Rom with a CD-burner about 5 years ago

A HDD-crash was the only fault ever, and it is running fine every day for a minimum of 6 hours.

[Ralph_B]

Oh, forgot annother one, still running in my shop for about 12 hours daily:

Intel 256, 8mb RAM, HDD 250mb, GFX VGA unknown, OS DOS, monitor Siemens 15" VGA, build around 1990. Never changed any components.

[Klapaucjusz]

Impossible since the pentium 166 was first available in 1996. Same goes for the HDD, back then in 1993 200MB was a nice disk. 4x CD-player? Nope, dual-speed. Also chances that a motherboard from 1993 accepts 48MB is not believable.
:detective: This PC has been upgraded a couple of times, obviously. My mistake :blushing: - it should be 1996, not '93 - short circuit in my brain. :der: :angel: First CPU installed was P90, along with 16MB of RAM and 2x ( :P ) Plextor CD; I can't recall the HDD capacity. Mobo is dtk PAM-0056I v.1 (Intel 430VX chipset) and it supports up to 128MB RAM.

[DurgeDriven]

Still in daily use to browse the net - I'm writing this lines with it:

AMD 700mhz (overclocked to 800mhz), 512mb Ram, Grafics 3dfx Voodoo3, OS WinMe, build in 1999.


You #1 Rank mate ( dont know if thats a compliment or not :?: )

hehehe ;)

Actually I kick myself I have not kept everything I brought
from XT clone up. Thats how I have always upgraded sell to buy.

But then ........I think how slow it would be just to remember how to get the mother going
let alone running anywhere near 100% ! Real Art form ! hehehe :-)

[OhioSpeed]

Speakers and a case are my only pieces left from my first build in 04. The VCR from 90 still works fine. As does the n64. Original game boy crapped out though but if i had an ac adaptar for it i think it might work. And here is something for ya. The old toshiba microwave my parents have is still going strong since 78.

[Geekboy]

My oldest hardware on my main PC would also be the speakers. Acoustic Authority 2.1 set, which I think has now become Cyber Acoustics, and also crap. I know that Acoustic Authority was not top notch or anything, even then, but I got them on clearance when CompUSA was still in it's original self. I've contemplated replacing them, but they sound pretty good. 40 or 60 Watts (it's been a while...), and have an 8" sub that can rock the house. Not bad for $20. I'd have to get Klipsch's or higher end Logitechs to actually upgrade.

[Rudyman]

And here is something for ya. The old toshiba microwave my parents have is still going strong since 78.

Duh, if we're going low-tech, my dad's bicycle's still in use every week and that's from 1948. (Was an expensive quality bike at the time though.) And I'm still using a Gilette razor that used to be my great-grandfather's. Amazing you can still get blades for that, btw.

(Still say my 1976 KIM-1 is the oldest pc mentioned here, even if it's kinda hors concours ;)
..And no, although it still worked fine last time I used it, I don't fire it up any more. Too afraid to blow a fossilized capacitor ;) )

[Apex1972]

With my PC, it's the operator, built in 1972 :mrgreen:

Seriously though, since I bought a completely new PC two months or so ago, for me it's also the speakers. Some Logitech 5.1 set I forgot the product name of :P

EDIT It's the Logitech Z-640.

same here
:thumbup:

[Catlin]

2 months,completely rebuilt my system from the ground up

Windows 7 64bit
Asus rampage 3 extreme
i7 950 @ 4ghz overclocked
24gb DDR3 ram
Gainward GTX 480

40" Samsung primary and 24" samsung secondary with g25

[DurgeDriven]

G25 cant be 2 months old.

lol ;)