whats the oldest hardware you own?

Discussion in 'General Hardware' started by Sniper, Jul 22, 2004.

  1. Sniper

    Sniper Administrator Staff Member

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    I still have the Voodoo 2 gaphics card about somewhere! hehe :)
     
  2. Big B

    Big B HWF Godfather

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    I have a SoundBlaster SB16 SCSI ISA card. It has a date of 1993.
     
  3. harrack52

    harrack52 Supreme Geek

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    I have a Apple IIe.

    It's from the eighties.

    I also have the first macintosh.
     
  4. Sniper

    Sniper Administrator Staff Member

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    must be a collectors item then :)
     
  5. ninja fetus

    ninja fetus I'm a thugged out gangsta

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    I have the same sound card as Big B in a frame above my bead. It might be younger though...its about 10 inches long!! I traded my friend's card for a floppy. haha.
    you know those big floppy drives that the floppy was bigger than a cd?
    i have one of those in storage year unknown...
     
  6. harrack52

    harrack52 Supreme Geek

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    Yeah they're 5¼ wide. I got a couple of those.

    My father has plenty of old computer parts, especially motherboards. I think he has an add-on card which is RAM. This card is huge and it's like 256k of ram or something lol.
     
  7. Sniper

    Sniper Administrator Staff Member

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    I forgot about those 5¼ floppy drives, I can remember them from when I was about 9 or 10 years old!
     
  8. extreme4377

    extreme4377 Big Geek

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    A fried ATI Radeon 9700Pro...jp thats relatively new. A 28.8 modem I guess
     
  9. ProcalX

    ProcalX all grown up

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    i have a Voodoo Banshee 16mb, that still works!

    a Pentium 66mhz 8mb ram and what i believe is some sort of early network card.. looks like a SCSI controller (the size of it is huge)

    i also have a unbranded cd-rom drive that i believe is 1 or 2 x speed, when u eject the drive, a detachable compartment comes out.. where u can fit 4 cd's at one time in.. the computer is supposed to then cycle through but i never got it to work..
     
  10. harrack52

    harrack52 Supreme Geek

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    extreme made me think about something. I'm sure I still have an old 2400 bps modem somewhere.

    I also have an old 2x cd-rom drive, which needs its own controller card to work.

    I wonder if I still have my 386. First pc game I've ever played is X-Wing, and it was a damn good game !
     
  11. ProcalX

    ProcalX all grown up

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    i've still got that on disc! and duke nukem (what a game!) and wolfenstein 3D.. legends!
     
  12. harrack52

    harrack52 Supreme Geek

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    Yep, Duke Nukem 3D was a very good game. Ah memories !
     
  13. Waffle

    Waffle Alpha Geek

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    i have several sticks of 1mb RAM and a 40 megabyte hard disk (i think its 40megs)

    they still work, but not too much point with a gig of pc3200, lol.

    times have changed so much...ah, being all nostalgic here.
     
  14. ninja fetus

    ninja fetus I'm a thugged out gangsta

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    i had a stick of 1mb ram just for fun. didnt use it but it was fun to look at and poke and prod things with.
    one of the computers my brother snagged from my high school had 4 sticks of 1mb ram a 1x drive and onboard 14.4k!!!
     
  15. Waffle

    Waffle Alpha Geek

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  16. ninja fetus

    ninja fetus I'm a thugged out gangsta

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  17. Guru9756

    Guru9756 Geek Trainee

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    I think I have all of you beat...I have a Digital Dec 5 Workstation from the 70's. It's running on a 9" green-matrix monitor with a mouse the size of a hockey puck and a keyboard that is so yellow i swear someone peed on it. Oh, I also have a 2400bps external Modem, and my favorite, a still-functional reel-to-reel reader for my DigiDec5.
     
  18. Sniper

    Sniper Administrator Staff Member

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    Welcome, Guru9756

    hehe, got any pics, interested in seeing what it looks like :) I wasn't even born then!
     
  19. ninja fetus

    ninja fetus I'm a thugged out gangsta

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    i wanna see some pics thats a relic!
     
  20. Boondock_Saint

    Boondock_Saint Geek Trainee

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    Someone mentioned Wolfenstein earlier. I remember when I first got DOOM on my 486 it came on one floppy. Then came DOOM 2 which was like on 8 damn floppies lol.
     

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