really old computers

Who still has an OLD computer that still works. I bought a Powerbook 100 for 10 bucks. It is so old it runs Mac OS 6 and the batterys dead. System 6 starts up in literally 6 seconds and I downloaded all kinds of old games for it. It brings back memories.

 

Did you know it sold new for $2500 in '91? I have a Macintosh IIsi also with 6.0, a 12" monitor and color printer. It blew the power supply about a year ago though and I haven't got around to fixing it. I can probably find one at the Goodwill Computer Store downtown.

 

ya, the mac was so ahead of its time in the 80's and early 90s but quite expensive. PCs had just the text only OS DOS while Macs had the first desktop OS Mac OS 1 in 1984.

 

80286.... laptop, no battery atm, olde

 

I love old computers.

 

I've got 5 or 6 in my attic just sitting there gathering dust.
I tend to buy a new PC every 3 maybe 4 years or so anyway.
Old PC's can make good fail-safe firewalls.

 

As well as the PC I am on now I also have a 7200/120 but the HDD is stuffed so I cannot use it. BTW the HDD is not a IDE type.

 

It has an SCSI drive.

 

OK but who has an olde computer that they actually use... lets see who has the oldest.

 

Define actually use. I break out mine occasionally for fun or goofing around. The oldest that I use is an ACER Baby AT. It takes both FDM or EDO (SIMM), and SDRAM memory. It has onboard second level pipeline burst cache, and uses both PCI and ISA cards. A Pentium MMX P54C processor (200MHz) and Intel 82430TX chipset. It can accomodate a P55C, AMD K5/K6, Cyrix 6x86, or IDT C6 CPU's. It runs HDD's at an incredible ATA/33. The mobo is a BabyAT form factor A-Open AP5T-OV

 

And what are you running on it?

 

98SE. I actually just took out the SDRAM PC100 and put it in a Compaq someone gave me. It's a PIII around 800MHz. It had ME on it but I put a bootleg copy of XP Pro on it. It runs OK. For a Compaq anyway<g> It's gonna be my new backup. I'll have the guy at the PC Liquidator know I'm looking for some SIMM RAM. He gets all that old stuff. I would like to get the ACER up to 300MHz so I can run it on my DSL line.

 

They really didn't get that affordable IMHO until the last 5-8yrs. Mine is/was a POS the way it came out of the box 6yrs ago and @ 500.00 in a store, it was a deal. Stellablue said it's the smallest tower she has ever seen and laughed her ass off. I didn't have a clue about anything then though.

 

I started using Macs in 1988 but now work mainly with Windows 2000 and XP looking after the school's network. My old computers are all Macs though, a few Classics, an LC 475, a few all-in-one 575s and 580s, and early Power Macs like the 6100/60, 7200/120 and 7600/200 - these ones (except the Performa 580) all have SCSI HDDs, but the 7220/4400 I have is all IDE, it is the only one I have set up for the internet. The old Macs I set up to give to local needy students - I have an external 8Gb SCSI HDD full of all the old Mac software, and even Prince of Persia 1 & 2, Civilization II, Sim City 2000 etc for the Mac. These older Macs are being thrown away by a lot of schools and can be picked up cheaply on eBay too. When well set up with OS 7.6, 8 or 8.5, and RAM boosted, they fly along fine, good as stand-alone edu-tainment PCs.

 

Commodore 64 with a FastLoad cartridge. i had several of these. I had a 128 once too.

 

Like all collectible things 1 day they be worth lots of money.

 

Woo hoo!! Go the Commodore 64. Nah, I never had one of those .... used them all the time at friends' places tho. I had a nimrod.

 

Until about a year ago, I still had an old Amstrad PCW8256 that had an operating system older than DOS (the OS it ran was CP/M, the first OS ever devised).

In 1987 or so, it sold for $399, and came with a proprietary doublesided floppy
drive, 256K of ram, a printer, monitor (actually the computer, monitor, and floppy were all one unit)... and was marketed primarily as a dedicated word processor. But it came with BASIC and LOGO, and a ton of software.

My first PC was a Timex Sinclair, with 2K of RAM expandable to 4K, as best I recall. A friend gave it to me in 1983 I think it was...

Oh the memoryies...

 

I have an Amiga 2000 I still use. The oldest one I got in the 1980's, it was a Texas Instruments, I have it packed up and stored. It had a cassette drive backup, no mouse, and the computer voice box. I got so fed up with trying to get it to work, I boxed it up and haven't used it for over 20 years! Its like brand new.

 

a few years back i brought a 486 back to life.. it ran great for what the computer actually was