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[Antony]

How old is your longest working computer that you still use it regularly? Not counting the ones just laying there collecting dust or doing very very few tasks.)


While chatting to Don, I just noticed that my PowerBook G4 (12-inch, 1.33GHz PowerPC G4) has turned 6 today. I got it 6 years ago today. I have been using it as my laptop until I got the MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo) in March 2008. The PowerBook G4 is still heavily used daily by Laurent since his PC died two years ago.


What about yours?

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[Don_HH2K]

That would probably be my Gateway P2 laptop, circa 1997.

Anybody here whose oldest PC is newer than my laptop / primary PC? It's going to be four years old next month.

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[stoperror]

My Pentium 166 wouldn't count because it was last used in 2007 (but I used it a lot at the time), but it was from around 1996. The oldest system I currently use is a Celeron D 365 (got it in mid '07), but my primary rig was built in December of '09.

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[iJohnE]

I'm still using my Gateway GP7-500, which I believe was manufactured in 1989. It can't do a lot, but I use it to check email and listen to music just about everyday.

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[Mandrake]

The oldest PC I had was a Celeron 2GHz system, which had the distinction of being the first PC I built myself. What a disaster that was. SDRAM with a P4 based Celeron? An SiS chipset? Ugh. Even so, I kept that system lying around until some of the capacitors on the motherboard started to go leaky and gave me all sorts of stability issues.

Now, the oldest PC I have is a Core 2 system from late-2006. That PC received a few upgrades over the years to keep it running fairly well.

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[stoperror]

I'm still using my Gateway GP7-500, which I believe was manufactured in 1989. It can't do a lot, but I use it to check email and listen to music just about everyday.

1989? I don't even think a 486 could smoothly play back an MP3 with other tasks running. Yes, I know it was a typo, but I was wondering about that. 20 years ago it was digital audio. 10 years ago it was digital video. Now it's lifelike graphics on multiple 4+ megapixel monitors. What next?

Thinking about that made me think about the single oldest component in any of my computers (that's still in use). I think it would be the 5.25" floppy drive from the early 90's. I would also think that older PCI based hardware (which first came out in 1993) would still work even in a 980X based system with a PCI slot.

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[iJohnE]

Oops, I meant 1999. It's a PIII 457Mhz. With only 64 megs of ram. Surprisingly suitable for what it's working with.

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[richard mitnick]

My Dell XPS410 desktop, about 3.25 yrs old, Vista Home Premium.

Everything being relative, the machine feels slow now that I have the Studio14 laptop with the i5-520M CPU and 4 gigs of DDR2 DRAM. But the Studio14 is running Win7, which feels dumbed down in Music and Video, where I do a lot of editing, processing, etc.

So, the XPS410 is still my main machine for that work.

My friend just got a computer from Maingear, with a six core Intel processor, 12 gigs of DRAM, US$3500, mostly for crunching for various projects running BOINC software. I generally cycle about a year after him, which is cool. He really knows his stuff and I learn from him. So, that is where my next machine will probably come from. But, not for US$3500.

>>RSM
NJ weather: like San Diego

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[Mandrake]

How silly of me. I forgot my little old iMac. The awesome power of a G3 400MHz iMac with 768MB ram! It gets used whenever the ADSL is out and I need to access the Internet. The dialup modem inside the Mac proves rather handy for that use.

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[iJohnE]

How silly of me. I forgot my little old iMac. The awesome power of a G3 400MHz iMac with 768MB ram! It gets used whenever the ADSL is out and I need to access the Internet. The dialup modem inside the Mac proves rather handy for that use.

Aww, that's adorable! Ha. I have a friend who used to have one of those for the same purpose, but now he turned it into a fish tank. Equally as cool in my opinion.

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[richard mitnick]

Hey John-
The snow melt yet?
Got that library up on BOINC?

>>RSM

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[iJohnE]

Yes Richard, the heavy snow melted. However earlier in the week it was snowing, all is well now in the mid 50's with some wind.

Actually our request with NCLS (our headquarters) was denied for some reason. But it may happen just yet, as we usually do whatever we want anyway.

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