Your oldest computer

[gd2020]

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My first computer still resides with me an Apple 2 plus (or if you have ever seen one booted up Apple ][+ ). I got it when it was already out of date, the Apple ][e had just come out. Boy was I pissed when I found out I couldnt use it for anything but a message pad without a 5 1/4 diskdrive or tape deck to load the OS. Anybody here remember making single sided 5 1/4 floppies into double sided with a hole puncher? hell anybody remember 5 1/4 floppies? yeah I am getting old, 33 and still gaming but at least I can afford buy games and booze now. Speaking of which I off to enjoy the latter... later
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[Beefy]

:) I had to copy a heap of stuff from 5 1/4" disks to a HDD recently. I'm surprised that they still held their data. They hadn't been used for over 12 years.. :)

[Wiggo]

Done that myself a few months back except I just transfered them to 3.5" floppies then handed my m8 who still uses 8086's 120+ of them.
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[Andy]

Haha, what games did you have ?

umm.. there are too many disks to work out which are games and which are just files :\

[Olie]

P75, 8mb of ram, 1MB video card, 4x Cd, 15" monitor
and it vwas totally black, KB, mouse, case, monitor, the whole thing :lips:

[DigitalDD]

:cheers:
My first computer still resides with me an Apple 2 plus (or if you have ever seen one booted up Apple ][+ ). I got it when it was already out of date, the Apple ][e had just come out. Boy was I pissed when I found out I couldnt use it for anything but a message pad without a 5 1/4 diskdrive or tape deck to load the OS. Anybody here remember making single sided 5 1/4 floppies into double sided with a hole puncher? hell anybody remember 5 1/4 floppies? yeah I am getting old, 33 and still gaming but at least I can afford buy games and booze now. Speaking of which I off to enjoy the latter... later :cheers:

Hole puncher, scissors, exacto knife, razor blade all used to make 5 1/4 SS/DD diskettes into double sided ones on the C=64/Apple PCs.

[Synthetic]

oldest i've owned was a 386 with 4mb ram? might have been 8..cant remember..the ****ty monitor took like 15+ mins to warm up, it was f#%ked, the screen used to "roll"..and to get it workin u wait ages and then flick it off then on..lol...

[daedalus]

P75, 8mb of ram, 1MB video card, 4x Cd, 15" monitor
and it vwas totally black, KB, mouse, case, monitor, the whole thing :lips:

Wow, what a beast...well, compared to a C64 anyway :D

[Olie]

It was teh beast of teh town at the time i bought it :)

[Beefy]

so was our dual-floppy drive XT when we got it.. doesn't mean i'm proud about it.. :)

[robertku]

About 6 months ago I threw out a 4.77Mhz 8088 PC that I found buried in the back of a cupboard, it had a turbo switch that brought it to 8Mhz, yippee.

Oh, it also had a 5 Meg hard drive and a CGA video card, and sported 640kb of RAM.

I bought that computer in 1982 and it cost me $5000.

That was my first computer, I learnt how to program in BASIC and learnt all of the DOS commands (including switches) off by heart.

Sorry guys, hope nobody wanted this computer, it served as a very large book-end for awhile but then I threw all my books out thus rendering the computer useless for anything else.

[Mr. C]

Geez robertku!!
That could have been the focal point of my computer museum.

[boola]

I still have a working C-64 and an Atari MegaST. The Atari ST is still great for midi editing and sequencing. Oldest one I remember having though is a Commodore Vic 20.

Scratch that.....I forgot...I still have a working Osborne military surplus with a 5' amber monitor. It will still boot and runs CPM. It is definitely useless.
Anybody besides me remember what CPM is?

[zeradul]

Oldest Mac LCII 80 meg HD! My fav game was specter... that game was way ahead of its time as far as looking 3D.

386 with a 128 meg HD.

Oldest (slowest) still in use is a P200 lappy with 160 megs of ram. I bought it new a year ago.

[zeradul]

Robert, you definatly threw away an antique... and if it was in good condition, possibly a very valulable antique...

Here is a similar system 3 years newer than yours that sold for 65$ plus 25 shipping. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=2023368609