What Old Computer Can't You Part With?

For some reason, I still keep a Dell Inspiron Mini Duo. It was an early netbook "tablet", where the screen flips in the frame, but I still like to use it. I think it is just the novelty of the flip screen. The Duo made a Hollywood debut in Batman where Bane is robbing the stock exchange.

 

Somewhere in a box in my shed I have one of the very first model Apple Macintosh 128k computers with an external SCSI hard drive and an extra external floppy drive. It was later upgraded to have 512k of RAM and a faster clock speed by swapping to the second series motherboard but after the upgrade I noticed that it was running much hotter and sometimes after long working periods would spuriously shutdown until I got a small desk fan blowing on the case (early Macs weren't fan cooled and only used internal convection cooling). I still have the original motherboard and all the original MAC Finder, MAC Paint, MAC Terminal and MAC Basic software on floppy disks (which are probably stuffed by now).

After my bad experience with the Mac of having to buy only super expensive Apple branded peripherals, I have never used Apple products since but I still can't bring myself to get rid of it because it costed me so much to purchase. I had to take out a loan for AU$5,000 and IIRC it costed about AU$6800 with the peripherals. I was using it as the beginnings of CAD designed printed circuit boards. Interesting and ground breaking times when making a PCB was totally a single sided photographic design which was then chemical etched and then all holes drilled by a person one by one manually......no CNC drill machines in the early days lol.

BTW my very first computer in the late 1970s was an Apple 2E Europlus with a dual external floppy drive. I only ever used this computer to play text based games like Zork, Wizardry and Dungeons and Dragons because it was so slow and only had a mono green screen plus it had very limited connectivity.

 

My 7" Asus eeepc 701 from January 2008. It came with linux and a 4GB (not all of that was usable) ssd hard drive. Newer versions of linux can't be installed because they are too large.
It was one of the first netbooks and very easy to travel with. I took it on a cruise or two. The sd slot made it easy to watch movies or read books.

I've now replaced the book reading and moving watching with a 10" tablet. It is easier to see and lighter in weight to travel with.

 

My old W510 ThinkPad. Core i7, 1GB nVidia graphics card, SSD, and 16GB RAM.

Still gets the job done...

 

nothing maybe a Lenovo laptop made 10 years ago and i have a old 5 1/4 floppy drive im keeping and i maybe ill put in a 20 gig drive and run win 3.1 on a 12 years old computer

i used to have 2 IBM 1981 computers i bought for a dollar but got rid of them

one had the monitor



i guess thats it

 

I still have an old floppy, but no PSU for it. I would fabricate one, but I'm pretty sure my old disks could be unreadable. They've been well kept, but they are magnetic...

 

I used external USB floppy drives to join floppies (they were split across several sometimes if the program was large) and then put the resulting files on an external WD hard drive for storage. The programs are mostly useless but I still like to keep them around. Then the floppies were formatted and tossed.
Any files that we use a bit were also put on USB sticks.

 

i have a floppy version of win 95 dos 5.o and 5 inch of win 3.1

why i dont know

 

I was doing a small clean out in the garage area at home and found a Commodore 1930 monitor in there.

 

Everyone still loves the old IBM Thinkpads, I don't share that nostalgia. I did have an IBM Aptiva 350MGHz desktop, that would have been Win 98SE.
There is a forum on Reddit called Retro Battle Stations where people like to show off their old PCs, fun to see.

 

I still have office on 3.5

 

how old is silly?

maybe mine is 8 years old

 

Launched in April 2005, the ThinkPad T43 and T43p laptops were the last T-series laptops manufactured for IBM.
So, like 16 years old.

 

my t43 just seems to get slower

 

Apple ][gs Woz signature edition. Much modded and plays games I cannot find any place else.