Owner of the Oldest Working Computer

[Ted]

A good old IBM XT.

We still use it if Windows crashes and we have to type stuff up.

Though the Dot Matrix printer is a hell of a slow fuck.

[Coaan]

I think I've still a C64 about here somewhere.....still works and has all it's bits....I loved amigas..

[Admiral Valdemar]

Hmm, Commodore Amiga 500 from 1989 or 1990.

[Coaan]

Hmm, Commodore Amiga 500 from 1989 or 1990.

The games I remember were out, things like banshee...enjoyed that game so much it wasn't funny....never got very far but it was great fun.....

Sigh, Oh for the good 'ol days

[Admiral Valdemar]

Hmm, Commodore Amiga 500 from 1989 or 1990.

The games I remember were out, things like banshee...enjoyed that game so much it wasn't funny....never got very far but it was great fun.....

Sigh, Oh for the good 'ol days

I'm using Google for the Amiga 500 now, I feel so old, I was 7 when I got that for Xmas (saw it under parents bed on Xmas eve and lost Father Christmas image). It was the movie pack, came with Back to the Future Pt.II, Nightbreed (only saw that film on TV for network premier two years ago!), Days of Thunder and Shadow of the Beast II (I don't recall a film of that, but it was one of the hardest fucking games EVER! ).

Ah, Lemmings, Chaos Engine, Syndicate, Zool, Lotus Turbo Espirit Challenge and many more. The good old days.

*Awaits new version of Elite for PC*

[irishmick79]

Dammit! I meant 15 megs. Sorry. Either way, it's pretty damn crappy.

[Admiral Valdemar]

Heh, I got a 1200 series a few years after (Comic Relief pack, came with Sleepwalker) and my 500 still works with older games, the only bad thing was I knackered the disk drive by pulling floppies out of it at an angle abruptly so the drive came loose. Cost 60 quid to get a new one.

[Coaan]

Hmm, Commodore Amiga 500 from 1989 or 1990.

The games I remember were out, things like banshee...enjoyed that game so much it wasn't funny....never got very far but it was great fun.....

Sigh, Oh for the good 'ol days

I'm using Google for the Amiga 500 now, I feel so old, I was 7 when I got that for Xmas (saw it under parents bed on Xmas eve and lost Father Christmas image). It was the movie pack, came with Back to the Future Pt.II, Nightbreed (only saw that film on TV for network premier two years ago!), Days of Thunder and Shadow of the Beast II (I don't recall a film of that, but it was one of the hardest fucking games EVER! ).

Ah, Lemmings, Chaos Engine, Syndicate, Zool, Lotus Turbo Espirit Challenge and many more. The good old days.

*Awaits new version of Elite for PC*

Lemmings, Chaos engine and Syndicate were undoubtibly the greatest titles for the Amgia ever..you could end up spending hours upon hours just sending 'em little guys plummeting to their deaths....

There was so many good games...all original too, something you don't see these days...

Ooh!, who's designing it?

[Admiral Valdemar]

The games I remember were out, things like banshee...enjoyed that game so much it wasn't funny....never got very far but it was great fun.....

Sigh, Oh for the good 'ol days

I'm using Google for the Amiga 500 now, I feel so old, I was 7 when I got that for Xmas (saw it under parents bed on Xmas eve and lost Father Christmas image). It was the movie pack, came with Back to the Future Pt.II, Nightbreed (only saw that film on TV for network premier two years ago!), Days of Thunder and Shadow of the Beast II (I don't recall a film of that, but it was one of the hardest fucking games EVER! ).

Ah, Lemmings, Chaos Engine, Syndicate, Zool, Lotus Turbo Espirit Challenge and many more. The good old days.

*Awaits new version of Elite for PC*

Lemmings, Chaos engine and Syndicate were undoubtibly the greatest titles for the Amgia ever..you could end up spending hours upon hours just sending 'em little guys plummeting to their deaths....

There was so many good games...all original too, something you don't see these days...

Ooh!, who's designing it?

The new version of Elite is being done by the original guys AFAIK. It sounds... amazing.

[Coaan]

I'm using Google for the Amiga 500 now, I feel so old, I was 7 when I got that for Xmas (saw it under parents bed on Xmas eve and lost Father Christmas image). It was the movie pack, came with Back to the Future Pt.II, Nightbreed (only saw that film on TV for network premier two years ago!), Days of Thunder and Shadow of the Beast II (I don't recall a film of that, but it was one of the hardest fucking games EVER! ).

Ah, Lemmings, Chaos Engine, Syndicate, Zool, Lotus Turbo Espirit Challenge and many more. The good old days.

*Awaits new version of Elite for PC*

Lemmings, Chaos engine and Syndicate were undoubtibly the greatest titles for the Amgia ever..you could end up spending hours upon hours just sending 'em little guys plummeting to their deaths....

There was so many good games...all original too, something you don't see these days...

Ooh!, who's designing it?

The new version of Elite is being done by the original guys AFAIK. It sounds... amazing.

the original was special....that'll tan the hides of anything we have now if they do it right

[Col. Crackpot]

in my parents basement resides my first computer. A Tandy 1000! purchased in 1985 it originally sported a 6 Mhz 8086 processor 5 1/4" Floppy with 320 KB of ram. it had a Tandy RGB 16 color monitor and an EGA compatable graphics card. it was later upgraded with a second floppy (3 1/2") a 20 MB hard drive and boosted up to a whopping 640K! and don't forget the Epson FX 80 tractor feed printer. I wont even bring up the TI-99...does that even count?

[Coaan]

in my parents basement resides my first computer. A Tandy 1000! purchased in 1985 it originally sported a 6 Mhz 8086 processor 5 1/4" Floppy with 320 KB of ram. it had a Tandy RGB 16 color monitor and an EGA compatable graphics card. it was later upgraded with a second floppy (3 1/2") a 20 MB hard drive and boosted up to a whopping 640K! and don't forget the Epson FX 80 tractor feed printer. I wont even bring up the TI-99...does that even count?

True state of the antique.....

What was the Ti-99 anyway?

[David]

Commodore 64 in closet. I had an Atari ( game system) I loved that thing.

[Col. Crackpot]

in my parents basement resides my first computer. A Tandy 1000! purchased in 1985 it originally sported a 6 Mhz 8086 processor 5 1/4" Floppy with 320 KB of ram. it had a Tandy RGB 16 color monitor and an EGA compatable graphics card. it was later upgraded with a second floppy (3 1/2") a 20 MB hard drive and boosted up to a whopping 640K! and don't forget the Epson FX 80 tractor feed printer. I wont even bring up the TI-99...does that even count?

True state of the antique.....

What was the Ti-99 anyway?

similar to a commodore 64, but far shittier. notoriously prone to failure and made by Texas Instruments in the VERY early 1980's.

one more thing, when i was in the 3rd and 4th grade my elemntary school actually had computer classes. They were teaching us BASIC on Apple IIe's at the ripe old age of 9. mostly just low-res graphic plotting. lol

[Coaan]

in my parents basement resides my first computer. A Tandy 1000! purchased in 1985 it originally sported a 6 Mhz 8086 processor 5 1/4" Floppy with 320 KB of ram. it had a Tandy RGB 16 color monitor and an EGA compatable graphics card. it was later upgraded with a second floppy (3 1/2") a 20 MB hard drive and boosted up to a whopping 640K! and don't forget the Epson FX 80 tractor feed printer. I wont even bring up the TI-99...does that even count?

True state of the antique.....

What was the Ti-99 anyway?

similar to a commodore 64, but far shittier. notoriously prone to failure and made by Texas Instruments in the VERY early 1980's.

one more thing, when i was in the 3rd and 4th grade my elemntary school actually had computer classes. They were teaching us BASIC on Apple IIe's at the ripe old age of 9. mostly just low-res graphic plotting. lol

Apples can actually handle basic?...

[Col. Crackpot]

True state of the antique.....

What was the Ti-99 anyway?

similar to a commodore 64, but far shittier. notoriously prone to failure and made by Texas Instruments in the VERY early 1980's.

one more thing, when i was in the 3rd and 4th grade my elemntary school actually had computer classes. They were teaching us BASIC on Apple IIe's at the ripe old age of 9. mostly just low-res graphic plotting. lol

Apples can actually handle basic?...

well...it was actually called 'Apple Basic' and the biggest thing i ever made with it was a flashing Van Halen symbol that shot cheezy 'laser beams' from the V and the H.

[Coaan]

similar to a commodore 64, but far shittier. notoriously prone to failure and made by Texas Instruments in the VERY early 1980's.

one more thing, when i was in the 3rd and 4th grade my elemntary school actually had computer classes. They were teaching us BASIC on Apple IIe's at the ripe old age of 9. mostly just low-res graphic plotting. lol

Apples can actually handle basic?...

well...it was actually called 'Apple Basic' and the biggest thing i ever made with it was a flashing Van Halen symbol that shot cheezy 'laser beams' from the V and the H.

*wibbles and keels over at the prospect of apples ever having been useful*

[Warspite]

I've got a Timex Sinclair 2068 personal color computer, with a Z80A processor (clocked at 3.57 MHz) and 48K of RAM. The TS2068 was manufactured in 83. The only disk drives available for the system were either aftermarket or homemade (used cassette tapes & cartridges for programs).

Ahhh, the good ol' days... I've got one of those lying around somewhere, too bad my tapes are long gone recycled plastic, and the power unit went dead a few years ago.

I also had an Amiga 500... Best damn computer before '91 for games! In it's days it was churning out better graphics and sound then the PC's.

Now, my oldest still functioning PC is a PS/1 386 at 25 MHz, with 2Mb memory and 85 Mb disk. Brrr.. (How could we survive with those things???)

[Coaan]

I've got a Timex Sinclair 2068 personal color computer, with a Z80A processor (clocked at 3.57 MHz) and 48K of RAM. The TS2068 was manufactured in 83. The only disk drives available for the system were either aftermarket or homemade (used cassette tapes & cartridges for programs).

Ahhh, the good ol' days... I've got one of those lying around somewhere, too bad my tapes are long gone recycled plastic, and the power unit went dead a few years ago.

I also had an Amiga 500... Best damn computer before '91 for games! In it's days it was churning out better graphics and sound then the PC's.

Now, my oldest still functioning PC is a PS/1 386 at 25 MHz, with 2Mb memory and 85 Mb disk. Brrr.. (How could we survive with those things???)

Back in those days, programmers were sensible and made things small....the computers have gotten bigger with the times and the craving for all things nice in games and such

[Col. Crackpot]

the oldest ones will last the longest. the only thing that will do them in is a failure of components. what is there to go wrong with pc-dos or ms-dos? not a god-damn-thing. but a windows based pc?!? you're lucky if you get 4 or 5 years before the damn thing crashes and is useless. Funny story, do you know where the term "crash" came from? years ago hard drives were prone to failure and the magnetic heads would literally "crash" onto the surface of the disk if there was a power loss. Finally someone thought to put aerodynamic "wings" on the heads (it was TEAC, I THINK) so when the power failed, the heads floated gracefully downward in the minute breeze caused by the rapidly rotating disk.

[weemadando]

We've already seen what everyone's first computer was. Now, who has the oldest WORKING computer?

I'll start with my Apple IIe (circa 1983) with two 5.25 floppy drives and the cheesy amber monitor. Screams with a whopping 128kb of memory

Apple ][e was still in storage at home last I checked... Still works, but somewhere we lost all the software discs.