My computer should last FOREVER!

[protege]

He was not happy when he found out that Reagan wasn't president anymore either.

Yeah...and I bet he wasn't happy that the cars are still on the ground, and that he can't fly to Mars in his own space ship

[tollbaby]

I have a Win98 machine, a Win2000 machine and a WinME machine (that one, I hate!). Unfortunately, my XP machine died, so I'm stuck with Vista on the laptop *cry*

[Bloodsoul]

When I went to grade school in the mid-90's our school had a few Macintosh and a lot of Apple //e computers. Ah, how I miss playing Montezuma's Revenge.

I'm still quite glad that my copy of SimCity 2000 works on my XP.

[PepperElf]

well with mac, there's often still some support for the os9 people. and there's also community support too

unless i'm mistaken.

[Dave1982]

OOoh.....aaaaarrrrrrggggg! I hate it when people come in looking for stuff to work with old computers!!!! HATE IT HATE HATE IT HATE IT!!!!!

Why? Because more often than not they take it personally with me.

"Why don't YOU have anything?"

"People still use [Windows98] you know!!!!!"

"YOU need to get on that!!!"

*deep breath*


Official support for OS 9 ended a while back, and the newest version of OS X - Leopard - no longer supports the "Classic Mode" (basically a virtual machine running OS 9).

[Auto]

I still use WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS as my word processor when I write stuff that's going to get printed and mailed. And the PC it runs on is configured with Windows 3.0.

I know they're both old and outdated as hell, but if they're good enough for Shakespeare, they're good enough for me.

And I have an HP laserjet printer from 1993 that still works perfectly.

[Aisling]

Wow. And I thought I'd been doing well with an 8-year-old desktop from Dell that died about 2 weeks ago. I don't know what happened exactly, but it won't finish booting Windows. I suspect the hard drive finally died.

[Racket_Man]

up until a couple of years ago I had (and it was working) --

Apple ][+ with 64K ram (yes that is a K) a color monitor and 2 (count em 2) floppy disk drives and Epson MX-80 printer (still works bought for around $800) sorry no Cider 10M hard drive all floppy all the time LOL

all bought for around $3000 in 1982

and as for the TI-99 I, IMO, that was really not even close to being a computing machine heck even the Trash-80 (TRS-80 by RadioShack) was a little better

the heck with all of that I WANT AN OSBORNE weightlifting computer (acutally considered buying one of those at the time)

[Wenchie]

Someone called my help line yesterday because they couldn't connect to our site... turns out everything on the computer was running slowly and it wasn't opening up or running ANYTHING.

The computer was running Windows 98... and the only Anti-Virus on the computer was Norton. But the virus definitions hadn't been updated since 1/23/99! NO other anti-virus/firewall/anything.

I told the assistant that I was talking to that she was basically working on a doorstop and that I'm surprised that it had lasted this long.

[It shouldn't]

As I'm sitting here at work, typing, I turn around and am staring at a Packard Bell computer running on DOS. It was here before me (11 years) and is still in use. We use it to design Master key systems.

[PepperElf]

dang (osborne)
looks like some of the equipment i use to use at work


actually... we DID have a win 3.1 machine at work back in the late 90s.
and one of hte sytems i worked on ... well i think it still uses 5.25" disks. they tried upgrading to 3.5 inch but it was too buggy so they went back to the old model. (not sure if they still use that system tho, but i wouldn't be surprised either)

[mattm04]

I still use WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS as my word processor when I write stuff that's going to get printed and mailed. And the PC it runs on is configured with Windows 3.0.

I know they're both old and outdated as hell, but if they're good enough for Shakespeare, they're good enough for me.

And I have an HP laserjet printer from 1993 that still works perfectly.

HP LaserJets are the Energizer Bunny f the computer world.

[digilight]

Ahh old as shit computer goodies...
I currently have the following
1 P3 700mhz running XP
1 Dell P4 with something or other fuckit I dunno
2 P2 333Mhz boxes running '98
1 P2 500Mhz Box Running '98
2 of the P2's also use adaptec 2940uw SCSI Cards
2 High Speed B&W Scanners that use (at the time high end and expensive as shit) Video Cards
1 Automated Robotic CD Duplicator
1 Primera Signature 2 Printer
2 Primera Signature 4 Printers (the primera's are older CD/DVD Printers)
a HP 4L Printer
a HP 4050 Networked Printer
A Hub thats at least 9 years old and works great
about 1000 pounds worth of CRT Monitors
and enough CAT5 cable to strangle about a bajillion fuckers trying to sell me life insurance


Wow I've got a metric fuckton of obsolete crap here, and I still use most of it even.

[Boredom]

my school had those imacs. you know, the blue ones? and windows 95 bricks with crt monitors. shudder.... they now have thin cubes windows xp and lcd screens. they still have the windows 95 ones....

[Chromatix]

I have a 1984 BBC Microcomputer Model B. It works fine, but finding hardware to attach to it is a bear. It will theoretically interface with 3.5" floppy drives, but they have to be rewired a bit first, because the signalling is different from the IBM-PC version. And just try finding a monitor to attach to it - it'll work with a TV, but who wants to do that?

I also have a 1994 Acorn RiscPC. It has a hardware-based PC emulator in it as well, which still manages to run Windows 3.1 (not 3.11!). It has a 2x CD-ROM, a whole 210MB HD (shared between native and emulator), and works fine with any SVGA monitor, PS/2 keyboard and (Microsoft protocol) serial mouse. With a 30MHz ARM processor, a whole megabyte of dedicated VRAM and the main OS in a 4MB ROM, it runs surprisingly quickly.

I also have several Macs of about that age or older. They don't get much use now, but they still work.