General question because I like old computers and want to know if anyone else likes em

My oldest is an IBM PS/2 Model 25 from 1987.
8086-2 at 8MHz
640KB RAM
MCGA graphics (MGCA later became part of VGA)
A 20 MB hard drive
IBM DOS 5.02

I had my parents Macintosh that was made in 1993, and the date always says Feburary 24, 1954 Steve Jobs birthday but it works better then the computer I use now.

My oldest is a Frankenstein'd PC in a 1990s Gateway case, the one I primarily use. I don't think any of the original components except a couple of drives are still in it. Everything has been replaced bit by bit over the years as things broke or became obsolete. Unfortunately, as a result of this in can only use AGP video cards.

From an old topic:
[quote=Cat333Pokémon]Alright, I "upgraded" this beast a little bit:

Wait, DOS 7.10? SINCE WHEN?! I want one :c

MS-DOS 7 as DOS is an unfinished version of DOS that Microsoft was working on around the time of Win 9x. Then they decided to integrate DOS 7 with 9x (I guess). If you poke around on vetusware, you can find DOS 7.10.

I have an old iMac

I have the hard drive and floppy drive of a computer that's about 12+ years old (It had Win 95 then later 98) (Chucked it out for space, but not before I got the aforementioned items ) The next oldest is the 7 year laptop that is unbelievably slow and BSoD when it does manage to start up. (Just for the record the manufacturer was Time UK, any other Brits here might know what happened to them).

Currently, I have an XP Professional with 40 GB (yuck) of memory. It's supposedly got a lot of RAM, but it sucks and it's always doing stupid things. My dad has an old computer that ran on XP, which then ran on Vista, and now runs on 7, but then he got another 7 desktop, and since he's got another computer, he doesn't need the old one, so he's going to swap my old XP with Windows 7. Awesome face.

One thing I'm worried about is losing everything; Dad told me I wouldn't be able to run applications on the old XP drive once 7 is installed. This means I'm gonna have to download and reinstall a lot of things. Two in particular I'm worried about are Vegas Pro 9 and the software my camera uses to get photos/videos up onto the computer. If I had an SD card slot, I wouldn't have that problem. Dad said the SD card would come in with the new hardware he's installing. But I'm not too sure.

Actually I heard windows 7 runs XP applications better than XP. It uses a virtual machine or something along those lines for XP stuff.

Yeah, but there's still file issues. Like, macs cannot run a wmv or wma file.



And since you're getting all that new stuff, then maybe you could put the old parts (Mainly hard drive) in an old computer and use some sort of USB transfer thingie.

Yeah, but you have to go back into Windows.old and extract everything to the place where it's supposed to be for anything to work properly.




Also, I've got a tower from the 80's. Not sure about the specs, though.



Only a 457 MB hard drive

Well, I did HAVE an old laptop from the 80s or something, but we threw it out because I couldn't turn it on.

Hey guiz, just downloaded DOS 7.10 and putting it in Virtualbox.

Windows Vista is the one that has compatibility issues. 7 has most, but not all, of them taken care of.

Play Windows Media files in QuickTime:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window ... nents.mspx

Now ask Cat33pokemon what he did with the thinkpad.


Anyways bought like 6 moths ago 5 pentum 2 200-300mhz laptops 5gb hard drives 64mb of ram 800x600 screens . $100

15 sec boot time only thing that sucks is flash about crashes it everytime. also for ref. its tinycore linux. Linux FTW 10mb total.

Only upgrades they got were SolidState Drives. (Meaning a compact flash to ide adapter $1 on ebay shipped)

5... sec... boot... HOLY CARP. Mine takes 8 times that ('Tis vista, what can be expected?)

I tried putting linux on my computer a few days ago, but apparently I NEED grub to boot in this hardware setup. Stupid Easybcd.

http://tinycorelinux.com/install.html
Also it bosts that the only thing that boots faster is inbeded linux

has most things open office, firefox, gimp, etc..

I use ubuntu, though.


All these distros are the same to me, though...

I have a Packard Bell Windows 3.11 computer. And I don't intend to ever part with it :D

~Chris

heh. Any more specs on it? I'm curious about its hardware.

My oldest is a Gateway from 2002 with 512MB RAM and 20GB Hard Drive. However, my friend has a 1995 computer with 64MB RAM and a hard drive I can't imagine.

My oldest personal computers are Gateway G6-333c. I think the hard drive capacity is 6 GB, the processor speed is 333 Mhz (in case the name didn't tip you off), and CPU-Z reports 1024 MB of RAM, which is odd because the motherboard only supports 512 (Maybe the person who upgraded it only had 512 MB modules) and an HP Pavilion-6350, which has 64 MB of RAM, and 8 GB hard drive, and a 333 Mhz processor. I'm not sure which is older and I don't feel like turning them around to see. My oldest computer, though, is a Texas Instruments TI-99/4a that I bought on eBay only to find out it won't read the cartridges correctly, even after I did my best to clean it. It's more of a game machine, though.

Achievement unlocked
Broken TI-99/4a :( -$35

Well, we had a Windows '93 PC. A great computer, in my mind. Unfortunately, it packed up several years ago, and we got rid of it.

There is no windows 93...

Right now, we have a windows XP Dell computer. I think we got it in 2003 for Christmas.

I really don't know what model it is or anything.

Before the current computer that we have, we used to have a Windows 95. It was crappy. xD