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What is the longest you have flogged an aging system for?

Dude my Dad's Office computer, his is ancient aswell, he had it since 1996 , and its a PIII . Ancient hardware in there, I cant believe its still running as their Home Office PC... But Its able to run CS No Problem, but anything else higher, its cant do the job.
 
In 1996 PIII was a decent machine. I build my first PC in 2000/2001 with a PII 400 MHz processor.
 
I keep an old eMachines eTower 500ix around.

500MHz Celeron
256MB PC100 (2x128)
40GB Seagate drive upgraded from a 10GB Maxtor
DVD-ROM upgraded from a CD-ROM
Added USB2, LAN, and a 56k Modem!
Replaced the power supply somewhere along the line
Upgraded from 98SE to XP Home

It was my first PC so it holds a special place in my heart. My first computer which I wish I held onto was a cute little Mac Classic with the tiny grayscale screen.
 
i've got a Cyrix 486DX-2 33Mhz running DOS V6

I can't let go of some old dos games that I grew up on. It brings back my childhood!
 
Comodore 64. Nuff said
 
I still have a home built Cyrix 5x86 66mhz pro w/mmx(pentium clone),ChainTech mother board,300 mb WD hard drive,and 128mb of ram-with A 16bit sound blaster pro-a 2 port usb 1.0 card and a .27 dot pitch super VGA monitor and it runs Windows 95(w/usb support) and it works but is put away.Built in June 1997
Just a few months ago I played Wing Commander #3 and #4 (with Mark Hammil) not only did i get to destroy the Kilrathi but i got to to blow up their home world yay!!!(in part 3) Only to come out of retirement to join the rebels with maniac(Biff) against Admiral towlen and his genetically engineered storm trooper's,But just before an act of war could be declared i stole a Dragon (star fighter) Shot down whats his name and testified rather smoothly against the Admiral to save the day Yay!!!! Although I would have enjoyed playing part1 or 2 they went to fast lol!!
 
I still have an old IBM aptiva computer from 2000. You couldn't ask for anything slower!
450mhz amd k6 or something
64mb ram
4gb hdd.

I still remember the smile on my face when we got it. But yeah it still works. Although there's a huge ball of dust inside it and the inside of the case is really weird.
 
I have an Asus A1000 laptop I bought back in 1999 (or 2000, I don't remember). It was a SiS 630 chipset with 64Mb of onboard SDRAM and a single RAM slot, the CPU was a P3M 700Mhz. I got me a 1Ghz P3 and a 512Mb SDRAM SO-DIMM off ebay about a year ago, and this thing saw me through my first two years at the university (And four years in uniform as a PBI before that, no idea how it survived army intact), programming my way to oblivion, pretty much, until I got my Dell XPS M1530. It still works, but is currently collecting dust.

I also have a Celeron Tualatin 1.4Ghz running at 1.55Ghz with 1.5Gb of SDRAM, a 40Gb HDD and I recently threw in an HD2400Pro AGP (Overclocked that, too, lawl) which is at my parent's basement, hooked up to a 19" CRT.

And ofcourse, not THAT old, but definitely milked and pimped out, is my 3ghz Prescott running 4.2Ghz which I dual-boot ubuntu 8.10 and winXP SP3 on to have a linux box and to game over the LAN with friends who come over. I did not build it so long ago actually and it is made out of spares I collected from people who wanted to throw stuff out. When I found out that this Prescott does 4.2Ghz, I decided to keep it and pimp it out (hence the HD3850, even though it really is a waste of money). Out of all my gaming rigs, this is probably my favorite, despite being the slowest in every aspect, but it has STYLE.
 
IN 2001 I had an ancient machine. I built the following out of parts from a pc recycling operation run at my school:

486DX100
Intel Mainboard
64MB RAM (Mobo only recognised 48mb)
Some old Videocard
Some old Soundblaster
A 1.2GB HDD that the BIOS didn't want to acknowledge
And the most exxy component was the 52x CD drive.
This ran Windows 95 SE or whatever it was, and was connected to an old IPEX 14" CRT.

I then had the following until 2007 (when I got my current):

Athlon Thoroughbred 2000XP
256MB SDRAM
A crap Mobo
a 20gb HDD
another 52x CD drive
Geforce MX 440 64MB (LOL).

Ran Win98SE, then XP.

I think my current system is aging too :laugh:
 
Ooh, this is a tough one. My family got a Packard Bell 486SX/25-4MB-170MB with DOS6.2/Win 3.1 for Christmas 93 and it morphed into a Pentium-clone 66MHz-8MB-1.2GB and saw Windows 95 the day it was released and even NT 4.0 (very, very slowww) when my dad went crazy and bought a student copy for $99 thinking it would be awesome, which it wasn't, of course, as it didn't run many of our old apps/games. I think that thing kicked around for 3 years until I built my own K6/133 box in 96. BTW, I put that beastie on a Tyan board, and the Tyan board survived being mounted directly onto the case and me wondering why it was freezing out.

I think the Packard Bell was actually still around for a while longer as my parents' system until mine became everyone's.

The only thing that comes close is the Athlon 2200+ on an ECS K7S5A. Dude's been around for years, and although he's been put away a couple of times, he's had to come back for backup a couple of times too. He's even sitting around right now waiting to become my sister's desktop box.
 
wheres u2k:roll:

the oldest s

I still got the good ol powerbook 140

mine had the 16mhz bad azz cpu:toast:
2mb of ram
and bad azz 40mhz hdd:nutkick:

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it looks just like that one, but I took out the ball and lost it, lol

and the only internet is AOLs deadly slow dialup
 
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My K6 rig still boots, yay
 
Still got that k6-2 and pentium mmx machines all runin :laugh:
 
It may not be a whole system, but one component that i still use and is right beside me on my desk. I'm talking about my not so dead AGFA Snapscan E50 Scanner.

I bought this thing in mid 2000. It was not cheap! More than 300$ if i remeber. It's unsupported in Vista, but i does work in Vista using the "Viewscan" software.

I painted it flat black to match the rest of my stuff. :D
 
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