Most Decrepit Daily Use Computer

[Kashmir]

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!

[Wrinkle]

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.

[Wrinkle]

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

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.

[tulsascoot]

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.

[jiminy]

Uh oh ya'll don't make me fire up my quartet of Amiga 3000s...

[EricP]

quote:Originally posted by Red Arrow

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.

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??