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Title: Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer Post by: Red Arrow on August 25, 2008, 10:06:18 pm After some comments from another thread, I thought I'd see if I have the most decrepit daily use computer.
AMD K6-2, 233 MHz, 64 MB RAM, Win98SE, 56K dialup. My back-up computer, which I use to download GPS files from a recorder, is a Compaq Presario 1080, 166 MHz Pentium with MMX running Win95. I have to use the wall charger because the battery won't hold a charge. Title: Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer Post by: Hoss on August 25, 2008, 10:42:43 pm quote: If you don't, you're pretty close. The last time I hade a K6 233 was in the late nineties (the K6-2 was released in 1998). Title: Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer Post by: okcpulse on August 26, 2008, 07:02:35 am Yikes. I'm an NT Administrator with a quad core workstation at home. I'd pull my hair out over such a machine. SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio wouldn't even be able to be installed.
Title: Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer Post by: Conan71 on August 26, 2008, 07:30:18 am Radio Shack TRS-80 [}:)]
Title: Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer Post by: Kashmir on August 26, 2008, 07:53:24 am Ha! I thought it was so awesome when my dad had a VIC-20. Space Invaders Champ!
Title: Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer Post by: dbacks fan on August 26, 2008, 08:41:04 am You mean this is not state of the art computing at it's best???????
(http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p309/kallsop2/PET2001.jpg) Commodore PET (http://"http://oldcomputers.net/pet2001.html") Old computers (http://"http://oldcomputers.net/") Title: Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer Post by: Gaspar on August 26, 2008, 08:54:22 am Thanks grandma.
It plays pre-MP3 files too. (http://www.worth1000.com/entries/218000/218160fKmj_w.jpg) Title: Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer Post by: Gaspar on August 26, 2008, 08:56:30 am My laptop.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9FanN9XSKgg/SEXD8-oAT3I/AAAAAAAADAo/85CPMMEjTQs/s1600/Old%2Bcomputer%2Bads7.jpg) Title: Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer Post by: dbacks fan on August 26, 2008, 09:03:43 am Wow Gaspar, you got the small version. I'm stuck with this for a laptop. I hear Emilio Estevez has one as well.....
(http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p309/kallsop2/compaq-plane.jpg) (http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p309/kallsop2/compaqI-left.jpg) Title: Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer Post by: tulsa1603 on August 26, 2008, 09:39:56 am quote: I had the same spec AMD K6-2, except I only had 32MB of RAM (I seem to remember upgrading to 64 at some point)...and I actually had DSL internet. It was torture using that thing. Had a HUGE 17" CRT monitor. I finally gave up on it three years ago and bought the fastest new computer I could find to make it up to myself. Title: Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer Post by: Wrinkle on August 26, 2008, 10:12:59 am Still have a functioning one of these:
(http://www.computercloset.org/ibm_pc.jpg) Though, it just sits there these days. Title: Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer Post by: jne on August 26, 2008, 10:21:04 am quote: Can I come over and play Oregon Trail? Title: Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer Post by: Gaspar on August 26, 2008, 11:15:26 am quote: You should get a monitor for it! Title: Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer Post by: dbacks fan on August 26, 2008, 11:15:43 am quote: Is that a 386XT? I have one as well. Title: Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer Post by: Wrinkle on August 26, 2008, 11:49:06 am quote: Nope, two generations earlier. It's a full blown IBM-PC 5150 with Intel 8088 CPU at a blazing 4.77 MHz, 16K RAM, 160KB(Single-sided)5.25" Floppy Drives and a monochrome graphics board. Received Feburary 1982, first Tulsa shipment upon introduction. Here's where I found the image, has additional info (http://"http://www.computercloset.org/IBMPC.htm"). Just part of the 'museum' around here. UPDATE: I don't remember the exact price, but do recall it in excess of $5,000 with PC-DOS 1.0, EasyWriter (word processing) and Visi-Calc (spreadsheet). Title: Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer Post by: Kashmir on August 26, 2008, 12:05:48 pm This is funny. When I was a tot, my dad was going to college for electrical engineering. One day my mom pulled me in the kitchen because daddy was going to make a computer "talk" and I guess it was going to be monumental. For 1982.
So after much fooling around with wires and chips on this vampire calculator looking thing lo and behold the following message came on the display: h3110 You get the picture. Man, was I ever pissed. I was counting it really talking. I was 3 years old! Title: Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer Post by: Wrinkle on August 26, 2008, 12:09:52 pm Wouldn't classify it a 'daily' user, but do still use a Pentium 166MHz (WITH MMX!) notebook more than occaisionally. It's notebook size, the 2.5" thick variety, weighs about 60lbs (probably 12), has Super-VGA graphics, 64MB RAM and an updated 30GB HDD. Works great for what I use it, non-mobile app. It actually has swapable HDD trays, so have several OS's it runs including Win98se, NT4, W2K. Never tried XP since I was not convinced it'd work, at least with any speed. W2K barely does.
I still believe it doesn't take a 60MB piece of software to write a letter or do 98% of spreadsheet work most people ever do. Title: Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer Post by: Wrinkle on August 26, 2008, 12:28:36 pm Also have one of these in working order:
That one cost over $10,000 new with a lease, hardware upgrades and some software. Seems it had 6MB RAM and a 10MB HDD. There's also an Expansion Chassis which clamps onto the backside and adds two ISA slots. Have that, too. Shown in the 3rd photo on the link below. Monochrome Orange Greyscale Plasma Display supported 'color' graphics/boards. Compaq Portable III (Intel 80386), circa 1987. The description in the link is wrong, the Compaq Portable was a 286 CPU, the "III" was 386. Though, both looked identical, 'cepting graphic labelling. Title: Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer Post by: tulsascoot on August 30, 2008, 08:24:15 pm Where's the Apple love? Although I haven't started it in a while, I still have an Apple Powermac 7200/100. Came with a 100mhz 68020 processor, but later upgraded to a 400mhz G3. 1GB main hard drive, with an added 4 GB for a secondary.
Still works, but would drive me batty to use anymore. Title: Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer Post by: jiminy on August 30, 2008, 09:53:05 pm Uh oh ya'll don't make me fire up my quartet of Amiga 3000s...
Title: Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer Post by: EricP on August 31, 2008, 07:42:53 pm quote: One day you really should pony up and dumpster dive to get a P4 3GHz with 512mb of ram. If you can't find one in a dumpster you might be able to pick one up for about $100. I would definitely have thrown that computer out the window about 5 times by now. Can you even run flash on that thing?? |