well i found it a while ago not 100% sure on the size but i will take a guess because i don't want to look for it again in the many computers we have laying around. 8mb (may be less can't remember) ram stick lol
There was an IBM PS/1 in the server room at the plate I used to work at. My personal oldest computer thing is a 486DX (I used to have an AST Asentia lappy with a 486DX in at some point as well) Do games consoles count, I think the megadrive outdates the 486 doesnt it?
still got my msx 128k, about 150 or so cassette tapes, its just a shame i dont have any cartridges. this msx is a beast with 2 cartridge slots! (C) microsoft 1983... Cload cas "r" or some **** like that
the only old thing I have left is far from being as dated as most of the stuff on this thread but it's still cool BIGFOOT
Rummage, rummage rummage... aha! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine Oh, hang on... Wait... I've also got one of these. This is a bit earlier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_device http://www.xtekxray.com/applications/antikythera_images.html Neither of them play Quake unfortunatley. Doom just about runs on the engine though, albiet at 1 frame a day, if you crank it really quickly.
Ghys, I loved that drive. I still had it until about a couple years ago... The oldest working computer I have would be Cobalt Qube microserver (the original one). 200 MHz of pure MIPS power and a 6 GB drive... but it's a beauty. I do have various bits and pieces hidden around: floopy drives, zip drives (100 MB on a floppy! That was huge back then!), probably a few ISA cards. No old classics, unfortunately. First computer I ever used was an Amstrad CPC 464 - I loved that machine, shame it's gone now...
Ghys, I still had one of those Bigfoot's RUNNING in a pc at my last job. Eventually (finally) died about 9 months ago. It was a weekly newspaper, but I could have sworn it was a computer museum. The worst part was that I had to support all this hardware, what a nightmare. We still had a pc (one that was being used at least 3 days a week) running Win 3.1, using a serial mouse, and a keyboard with a DIN connector. Some of the "newer" computers had sdram slots as well. It was an interesting learning experience, but I left right about the time I started pulling my hair out.
mine still works fine I plugged it on a P5QL motherboard with an E8400 and a GTX260 using an IDE to SATA converter and I actually got to see the win95 start up logo !
I have an operational Atari 800XL with 5 1/4" drive in the garage circa 1983, along with 3 Atari 520ST's (all upgraded to a whopping 1024 Kb - yes - 1 whole meg of ram people!) of which 2 actually work circa 1988! Does a 1935 era sliderule count? PB
Console: Acetronic game system Computer: ZX81, Speccy (rubber keys) 48k, BBC model B, and an Atari ST
Probably doesn't count but I think I've got the original Duke Nukem on floppy disks lying around, along with Chips Challenge and other awesome games!
Sadly my oldest thing is a laptop from '98, the Dell Inspiron 7000, apparently cost £3000 in its prime, for that you got: Pentium 2 400Mhz 64Mb RAM 10Gb HDD ATi RagePro 16Mb Truely a sweet beast
You're a sick man Then again, if I could get my hands on a 5 1/4" floppy drive, I'd toss it in my tower in a heartbeat.
