electronixguy
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Post by electronixguy on Jul 11, 2009 15:05:36 GMT -5
This section was empty, so I figured I would add something to it.
Come on in and show off your oldest working computer systems, regardless of the platform (IBM compatible, Apple, Pre-IBM/Apple, terminal, word processor, etc...).
Here's what I've got for old machines at the moment: Compaq Presario CDS524, 486DX/33 with 12MB RAM, from 1995 Thinkpad 310ED, P-166MMX with 32MB RAM, from 1998 Thinkpad 380z, P2@233, 32MB RAM, 1998 Thinkpad 380z, P2@300, 64MB RAM, 1998 Thinkpad 390x, P2@400, 256MB RAM, late 1999 Toshiba T1100+, 8086 or V-30 @ 4.7MHz, 640KB RAM, 1986 Amstrad PPC512, 8086 or V-30 @ 4.7, 512KB RAM, 1987 Assorted 486 & early pentium boards, different years A few other laptops as well, I'll share them later when I have some photos to upload.
The oldest one I use for anything is the Amstrad, it still makes a decent word processor, and it's nice to have a full keyboard on a portable.
Now I've started it, so it's your turn. -Bill
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Post by jlf65 on Jul 11, 2009 16:06:27 GMT -5
I've got: Atari 400 bought back in 1981 Amiga 500 bought in 1988 Apple Performa 5200 bought in 1995 P2-400 bought back in 1998
All my other computers that are from before 2000 were bought used after 2000, like an Apple IIC+ bought in 2001. I still own all my old computers, which all still work fine, and most of them are still set up in my computer room.
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electronixguy
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Post by electronixguy on Jul 11, 2009 18:28:20 GMT -5
nice assortment
I wouldn't mind getting another amiga some day, they're neat machines.
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Post by jlf65 on Jul 11, 2009 21:25:45 GMT -5
Yeah, I later picked up an A1200, an A4000, an A3000, an A1000, and a CD32. Unfortunately, I lost the CD32 in the Great Flood of '04. I still have the A1200 setup in the computer room. I use a PCMCIA to SD adapter as the "CD" in that system, and have an 80 GB harddrive in it. A500 is in the closet, but I have broke it out a couple of times when I wanted to test something.
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Post by Tiido on Jul 12, 2009 9:31:58 GMT -5
I have : *AST Bravo 386SX @ 25MHz + Cyrix 387 with 6MB of FP DRAM and a Western Digital VGA with 256KB of VRAM and 2x HDDs (40MB+120MB) in it. *Compaq Pro Linea 4/25 that has been upgraded to have a Cyrix 486DX2 in it and 32MB of FP DRAM, its got a onboard Tseng 4000ET with 1MB of VRAM (and hardware sprites and playfields ) and a 500MB HDD. I'm not gonna include my P166
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Post by Syniphas on Jul 13, 2009 17:40:18 GMT -5
1992 Amiga 600 (bought in 2009, needs new keyboard buy works perfectly) 1993 486 NEC laptop (given to me in 2004, case is busted but it still works with no problems)
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Post by jlf65 on Jul 14, 2009 11:20:38 GMT -5
I picked up a C64 portable for $20 back in 2002 or so. Not exactly a PSP.
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electronixguy
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Post by electronixguy on Jul 14, 2009 23:38:42 GMT -5
jlf65Nice assortment of amigas you've got there, I'm turning green with envy As for your C64 portable, that's a very nice find, especially for that price! Was/is it in good working order, or were there repairs to do to get it running again? Forget the PSP, the Commodore wins any day of the week as far as I'm concerned @tiido Sounds like a couple of nice little machines. Got the Compaq pushed pretty much to its limits, it looks like... SyniphasI liked the A600, I had one a few years back, wish I hadn't given it away What's wrong with the keyboard on it?
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Post by jlf65 on Jul 15, 2009 0:20:34 GMT -5
jlf65Nice assortment of amigas you've got there, I'm turning green with envy As for your C64 portable, that's a very nice find, especially for that price! Was/is it in good working order, or were there repairs to do to get it running again? Forget the PSP, the Commodore wins any day of the week as far as I'm concerned The A500 was my pride and joy for the longest time. I did the Fatter Agnus mod for 1MB of Chip RAM, put in the ECS chips, installed a dual ROM card, an 030 Microbotics accelerator, a Slingshot adapter on the side for two Zorro cards, and had a ram card in the belly with 4.75 MB of RAM. The SX-64 is in great condition - the only flaw is one of the clips that holds the keyboard on the top is broken... something like that. Funny thing is I have almost no C64 software. ;D
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dave
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You can't beat the raw processing power of a Tualatin PIII!
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Post by dave on Jul 17, 2009 7:09:26 GMT -5
I just signed up after reading this forum for ages. That's beside the point though.
My oldest working system is an Apple IIe. The next in line would be my NEC PowerMate 286. I got it from the recyclers :-)
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Jul 17, 2009 20:18:58 GMT -5
Everybody here knows my old 386SX-33... and while the motherboard is STILL on the workshop, it DOES count Then, the next system on the list is a P133 built from a old IBM board from the trashcan, and a P225MMX built from 99% recycled parts. Not exactly "retro", but they're ice-age for today' standards
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electronixguy
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Post by electronixguy on Jul 17, 2009 21:25:05 GMT -5
daveWelcome! Don't see many NEC laptops around anymore, I think I have an old 486 here somewhere, likely hiding in the closet (also know as "lost to the depths of the universe"). @tom 386 is still in for repairs? I thought you'd have it back by now, but I guess it takes time for such things. I hope you get it back soon, I'd like to see some more of your experiments The 133 is cool, recycling is always good. I remember reading about your 225MHz system a while back, wasn't it used for recording? Preparing to build a retro server here, just for fun. P133 24MB RAM Adaptec RAID controller (forget the model) 2X Quantum BigFoot 4GB HDD 2X Fujitsu 4GB HDD 1X 32x CD-ROM 1 Novell 10 meg ethernet Trident video Mainly gonna use it as a print server, but also for some storage. It doesn't need to be terribly fast for that, really, as long as I don't store huge files on it. I'll let you know how it goes, hopefully it will be done this weekend. -Bill
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dave
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You can't beat the raw processing power of a Tualatin PIII!
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Post by dave on Jul 19, 2009 5:56:58 GMT -5
electronixguy; The PowerMate is a desktop. I should have said that in my previous post. I had one hell of a time trying to find NEC's FTP site to get the BIOS utility for it, I probably made it harder because i'm just me and confuse myself, but anyway.
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Post by Tiido on Aug 3, 2009 4:28:46 GMT -5
Sounds like a couple of nice little machines. Got the Compaq pushed pretty much to its limits, it looks like... Both are pretty much on their max... if there's 2Mbyte 30 pin SIMMs then the 386 could have 12MB of RAM......
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dave
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You can't beat the raw processing power of a Tualatin PIII!
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Post by dave on Aug 18, 2009 2:52:42 GMT -5
I just got bored so I thought I will post that i'm using Windows NT 3.51 SP5 (also boots win95) on an IBM aptiva 2199 or something like that, an AMD K62/500, 128MB of RAM and am using a S3 ViRGE/DX (4MB PCI) instead of the crappy on-board SiS 530 because it (somehow) hurts my eyes =P. She's also got a SCSI-1 adapter with a CD drive (2x matsushita CR-584) and a 500MB Quantum Maverick out of an old apple (PowerMac 6100/66), and a D-link DFE 500TX Rev. B\C. The sound drivers on NT 3.51 are designed for NT4 but they work okay. I'm sorry if the post is a bit screwed, but the javascript in Netscape 4.8 isn't the best =P. Not exactly retro, but compare it to a Core i7, and it's shit.
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