What is your oldest PC stil in use?

[NotAllThere]

I've got a ZX81 in storage. But it's not in use, obv.

[DoctorStrangelove]

I've got a ZX81 in storage. But it's not in use, obv.

Why not?

Surely with all that ram you could control two nuclear power stations?

There's a Spectrum upstairs too.

And a teletext adaptor for the Spectrum that got used once.

[Paddy]

Still have CP/M, PC W95/98, these are mainly used for data recovery from early disks. I am on the UK Register of Expert Witnesses and often I need to uses old systems to prove or disprove and issue that happened years ago.

[NotAllThere]

Why not?

Surely with all that ram you could control two nuclear power stations?

Very slowly... Although when programming assembler I got games working somewhat faster than programming the same games in 6502.

[NigelJK]

My Tosh T2130CS still works fine and is far smaller and lighter than the current laptop.
Boot up the IBM RT6150 from time to time, although I think the 440 external driver may be U/S now.
ZX81 = Z80 assembler. BBC/Commodore/Apple II etc = 6502
Hand coding Z80 on the ZX81 was a right of passage IIRC

[rik sherman]

My PC must be 15 years old. New motherboard, graphics card, HDs, monitors, keyboards, mice... but the same case.

Is that Trigger's PC? Except he might have replaced the case a few times as well.

[minestrone]

Siemens Sockie Generator 4004.

[vetran]

My PC must be 15 years old. New motherboard, graphics card, HDs, monitors, keyboards, mice... but the same case.

Have a chat with Halo, she can probably do you a Gimp themed case!

Or these rather cool ones

https://content.instructables.com/OR...me=1&width=306

https://www.instructables.com/howto/wooden+pc+case/

[mallisarealperson]

Still using my brain, sometimes. That's 48 years old. Can take awhile to boot up in the morning.

Never been perfect since the y2k bug

[Lost It]

I still have my ZX81 somewhere. I remember building it, plugging it into the monitor and looking at this slowly blinking curser and thinking "Now what?" because I knew SFA about programming back then. I think it had 1k or RAM.
Only ever really programmed in Fortran back in the day, haven't done anything like that for probably well over 30 years now.

2nd oldest I have a K6-3 400 running Window's ME in my garage. A whole 128 meg of Ram in that thing and an Intel AGP card. I think it has a 1.2 gig hard drive in it. Finding keyboards with the huge connector is the biggest issue these days. I found a NOS Dell unit a while back, the one with the "clicky keys". A real pleasure to use.

I have a Commodore C64 still in it's box somewhere too. And an Atari 512 ST.