What is the oldest computer...?

[swarfega]

I first had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k in 1982. Fist PC was a 286 in 1990.

 

[aem]

commodore sx-64​

Bought it in April 1983 :shock:​

Still have it & it still works ​

" Doc " ​

Respect right there!

This and Atari (with River Raid) can only bring back good memories for me unfortunately.

 

[richc46]

Dell purcased in 2000 and had Windows 98, preinstalled. I used it until December of last year. It developed a software glitch, missing .dll. But, it was time for a new one and I bought a Dell XPS, and glad that I did.

 

[liljoe]

tandy 386, 1980 something

 

[madtownidiot]

Does TRS-80 sound familiar to anyone?

 

[noobvious]

Does TRS-80 sound familiar to anyone?

I've heard them described as "trash-80" by those older than I. I never used one though.

 

[madtownidiot]

that's what they used to call them.

 

[Pieloi]

Well, I have quite alot of "classy" hardware lying around.
But these are the only operational ones hooked up to something.

a big long flat horizontal lying case with a pentium 2 233mhz and 64mb of ram. (Use this to play Day of the Tentacle) with windows 98.

a laptop with 366mhz 64mb of ram, runs..uh..nothing particularly well..25 Second battery life..30 If your lucky (Just enough to run downstairs and plug its clover style charger back into the wall)

Other than that, just a load of old pentium and amd boards and processors =p

oh..and a ZX Spectrum ;< (but the wires got cut off)

 

[sambalayne]

tandy 386, 1980 something

i call bull! there was no 386 in 1980

 

[sambalayne]

a laptop with 366mhz 64mb of ram, runs..uh..nothing particularly well..25 Second battery life..30 If your lucky (Just enough to run downstairs and plug its clover style charger back into the wall)

Chinese fire drill comes to mind

 

[Wishmaster]

Amazing how far Technology has come in the last 20 years when you really think about it.

 

[Lebon14]

Celeron 700MHz, 64MB of RAM & a 3dfx Voodoo3 video card. Bought in 2000 and came with gulp Windows Me. It now has 320MB of RAM, still working but... it's useless without drivers for the video card on a pirated Windows XP. Gonna blame nVidia for having bought 3dfx XD

 

[RedBirdDad]

1st Home Computer: TRS-80 Model III.

Work? Altos 580 (CP/M). Then transitioned to a Compaq Portable III (Which I still have!).

Oldest? NorthStar Horizon (Still have!)

 

[tuckeratlarge]

ZX81 in 1981 (duh) yes I am quite old

 

[CrazeeAFGuy]

Commodore Vic-20

 

[richc46]

I always thought that it was mine with the
windows 98, until recently.

 

[Kari]

Makes me feel so old to think those days... To come home from school, press the play button to start loading the game from a cassette, take a shower and have a snack, back to my room to do some homework, checking the display every now and then and finally hear that BEEP - the game was already loaded and ready to be played!

To think that, and then todays teenagers overclocking their machines to get it some milliseconds faster...

 

[DocBrown]

Kari,

That brings a tear to my eyes

My first game was Monopoly on cassette tape. It took forever to load also.

So I would just just leave it loaded & turned on for days & days playing it.

 

[madtownidiot]

Amazing how far Technology has come in the last 20 years when you really think about it.

what's even more amazing is that the average price for a high end system hasn't changed in 20 years, despite the exponential increase in technology. If the price had changed in proportion to a computer's capabilities, they'd be more expensive than a house now

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Amazing how far Technology has come in the last 20 years when you really think about it.

what's even more amazing is that the average price for a high end system hasn't changed in 20 years, despite the exponential increase in technology. If the price had changed in proportion to a computer's capabilities, they'd be more expensive than a house now

Good point, I'm glad that hasn't happened.