How old is the oldest part of your computer?

**Bogeyman** · August 2nd, 2006 06:57 PM

Originally Posted by badsekktor

I believe i still have that commodore 64. di pa uso optical disk at magnetic floppies nun. cartridge type pa mga bala. that was way back 1980's pa not sure if 86 or 87 pero seldom used and solid state technology and it still runs! pre-loaded ng 4 applications, spreadsheet, and yun unalng version ng VB which is Basic. nakalimutan ko na yun 2 iba pa programs.

Syet, I remember my own Commodre 64. Magnetic floppy na ang gamit ko nun. It was utilized mostly for games. Kainis lang, pumutok nung minsang isaksak ng pinsan ko sa outlet, and it never worked again. Sayang.

**mikmik316** · August 2nd, 2006 07:35 PM

Not working pero i got to dispose some of our old 386SX PCs... 256kb Video Memory with 1Mb System Memory and Seagate 40Mb HDD... heck it can run Windows 3.1 and my first PC game... Super F1... hehehehe

**StraightSix** · August 2nd, 2006 09:49 PM

Originally Posted by Bogeyman

Originally Posted by badsekktor

I believe i still have that commodore 64. di pa uso optical disk at magnetic floppies nun. cartridge type pa mga bala. that was way back 1980's pa not sure if 86 or 87 pero seldom used and solid state technology and it still runs! pre-loaded ng 4 applications, spreadsheet, and yun unalng version ng VB which is Basic. nakalimutan ko na yun 2 iba pa programs.

Syet, I remember my own Commodre 64. Magnetic floppy na ang gamit ko nun. It was utilized mostly for games. Kainis lang, pumutok nung minsang isaksak ng pinsan ko sa outlet, and it never worked again. Sayang.

My very first was a Commodore VIC-20, the one that preceded the C64, puro cartridge din. When they came out with the digital tape drive it was almost as expensive as the VIC-20. I read a computer article about an interface so you can use an ordinary cassette recorder, and built it ... it was just a TTL voltage converter. When I got a C64 later, yung tape drive pa rin gamit ko. It was mainly used on radio comms ... encoding/decoding morse code, radio teletype, and packet (w/ e-mail before the internet, hehe).

The C64 was still working when I left it in the Phil.

**Horsepower** · August 2nd, 2006 11:12 PM

what is a Commodore?

**roninblade** · August 2nd, 2006 11:52 PM

Commodore is the commonly used name for Commodore International, an electronics company who was a major player in the 1980s home computer field. The company formally went bankrupt in 1994, but there have since been several attempts to revive their Amiga systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodo...iness_Machines

it is also a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral

**Jun aka Pekto** · August 2nd, 2006 11:58 PM

I voted 9-10 years. Actually, I just took out an original late-1996 Diamond Monster 3D (3DFX Voodoo) out of my P3-733 since support is spotty for W2k.
My den :

The pc on the left is a P3-733 from 1999 and runs Ubuntu and W2k
Components:
Hauppage WinTV PCI (1998)
SB Live (2000?)
Ati Radeon (2000)
Hard drive is 30GB WD Caviar (2000)

The pc on the right is my Athlon X2 4200+
The oldest component would be the 2 Samsung 17" crt from 2000/2001. They just simply refuse to die.

My wife's pc has a Maxtor PCI Firewire card from 2001. Also, the pc is an Athlon XP 1700+ from 2001.

My oldest components besides 720k Amiga floppies from the late 80's and 3.5" 1.44MB floppy drives from the early 90's would be my original 1995 MS Sidewinder 3D Pro and 1996 Diamond Monster 3D. Both still work:

**Jun aka Pekto** · August 3rd, 2006 12:24 AM

I knew I had a pic of it somewhere.... My wife's Athlon XP 1700+ from 2001. The case is a more recent Antec case. The oldest components are an SB Live Value and a Maxtor PCI Firewire card, all from 2001:

he keyboard is from an old Gateway 2000 pc (1997) that a neighbor had junked and left by the dumpster (I came over one night and took the keyboard).

Since the pic was taken, I replaced the Pioneer slot-loading DVDROM (2000) with a Lite-ON 8x DVD burner (2004). The Pioneer DVDROM is now in the P3-733 shown in my first post of this thread.