Oldest computing device in your household?

[iliketrains]

Something with computing power still used regularly. ColecoVision for retro fun? An old desktop calculator ? First gen digital camera ? Or the expected reply, no reason to keep old junk.

In my workshop there is ms-dos on a pentium mmx 233 serving as a very energy inefficient tape measure. It really should be trash canned and replaced with modern digital stuff but that involves some retro-fitting. It's laziness as the power savings would pay for new technology.

[vimes666]

My fingers.

[Portreve]

My Mom's old iBook G3 (it was mine and became hers when I upgraded).

EDIT: Well, if you're gonna qualify it that way, then technically it would be my 2020 HP Envy tower.

The iBook above is the oldest thing in the house, my 2011 MacBook Pro (which I no longer use at all and is having some problems) is the next oldest. Everything I've ever owned either before or in between has long since been sold off or put in the garbage after hardware failure.

I quite miss my old Macintosh IIci.

[JoeFootball]

Something with computing power still used regularly.

Not used quite regularly, but a 2006 Dell Latitude D420 laptop. 12" display, about three pounds, so great when size/weight are a concern. Features a mighty 32-bit Intel Core Duo U2500 1.20GHz (220 Passmark benchmark), 2 GB DDR2 RAM, and 80 GB hard drive. Currently running LM 19.3 Xfce on the 4.15.x kernel.

[iliketrains]

My fingers.

You win *
* depending on age.
Runner-up owns an abacus?

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Both my little purse camera and my high end point and shoot camera are at least fifteen years old. The still work fine and can use AA batteries instead of proprietary ones.

All three of my Lenovo notebooks range are 10-20 years old and still work although the batteries are going.

I've got a "solar" calculator in my purse that's at least 20 years old. Still works.

I've got few dozen Eneloop AA and AAA batteries, some of which go back to 2009. I've yet to have one fail on me.

As long as something keeps meeting my needs, I'll keep using it until it no longer does or it dies.

[cliffcoggin]

I still have the first calculator I ever owned from 1974 when pocket calculators were new on the market. It is a Triton 1200, it's British made, and cost me £17 (about 10 days wages) as a half price introductory offer from New Scientist magazine. I must find a PP9 battery to test it.

http://www.vintagebritishcalculators.in ... .html#1200

[Schultz]

I have an old Canon calculator from '89 or '90.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I still have the first calculator I ever owned from 1974 when pocket calculators were new on the market. It is a Triton 1200, it's British made, and cost me £17 (about 10 days wages) as a half price introductory offer from New Scientist magazine. I must find a PP9 battery to test it.

http://www.vintagebritishcalculators.in ... .html#1200

Pocket calculators go back further than that. My Daddy worked for Motorola and he got his hands on an early Motorola pocket calculator to give me back in the mid '60s. It died after a few years.

In other news (news?), I still have my old Commodore C64c but the PSU is dead.

[Tomgin5]

I still [*]have a functional commodore 64 and a Xerox Star that still worked last year. I have not fired it up this year.

[Night Wing]

The desktop tower computer I'm typing this message on. Bought it back in June of 2010 and it came loaded with 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium. It has an old Intel i7 processor (Sandy Bridge) in it with a processor speed of 2.80, an AMD Radeon 6450 graphics card, 16 GB of memory, 2 DVD drives and 2, 3.5" hard drives (7200 rpm).

Runs Linux Mint 20.2 (Uma) Xfce fast. Just waiting on, as of this post, Linux Mint 20.3 (Una) Xfce when it is publicly released since I do fresh installs. I don't do BETA's.

[AndyMH]

My HP10C calculator. I did replace it with an HP15C years later. I can't use ordinary calculators, reverse polish is now hardwired in my brain.

[sideband]

CASIO FX-880P Handheld Personal Computer - runs BASIC - purchased 1991

Hewlett Packard 31E Scientific Calculator - Reverse Polish - purchased in 1975, still used regularly

[Termy]

I used to hold on to a lot of old computers, but I stopped doing that years ago; it took up too much room, and I eventually just stopped doing anything with them. I lost interest in computer hardware and gained a lot of interest in the software side of things. I think the oldest computer I have in the house is a Windows 7-era computer.

In my workshop there is ms-dos on a pentium mmx 233

I had one of those! Very fond memories. A PII 233MHz, 4GP AGP Radeon GPU, 32MB RAM, and 2GB IDE HDD. Those old IDE ribbons were horrible, and the power leads were even worse. Ever noticed how dangerous those old computer cases could be? I remember cutting myself on those things. They were horrible. Now, everything's sooo much easier. I remember overclocking the CPU (same computer, actually) by adjusting jumpers on the board. I put that machine up to 266MHz, I think. Fried the CPU and even motherboard, eventually. Learned plenty, though.

Thanks for taking me down Memory Lane.

My fingers.

Nice.

[RollyShed]

What about navigation equipment? I have a vernier (not micrometer) sextant and here in front of me a Dennison compass, 1918. The batteries are flat on both. Ooops, they don't use batteries. Oh well...
OK, electrical, the radio in here is transistor and probably germanium, there's 60 years old at least. Calculators, oldest only about 20 years old Casio fx-100D.

Computer, laptop? Toshiba T1960CT/200 about 1990. I took it to the Shed recently to see if a power supply would fit. You need to boot it with a floppy to get it to work.

[DisturbedDragon]

Tons of old parts, but oldest functioning and still in use computing device would have to be my Samsung NP-Q1. 900Mhz of Celeron processing power !! Currently running Lithium (bunsenlabs).

[Arch_Enemy]

How about a Kyocera Palm Pilot phone, from 1999?

It still works as a phone, and certainly works as a Palm Pilot.

BTW, I still have a Timex Sinclair, and it still works.

SLOW, but it still works.

Beats the heck out of "Made In China" stuff...

[Arch_Enemy]

I still [*]have a functional commodore 64 and a Xerox Star that still worked last year. I have not fired it up this year.

Wow!

[Arch_Enemy]

I still have the first calculator I ever owned from 1974 when pocket calculators were new on the market. It is a Triton 1200, it's British made, and cost me £17 (about 10 days wages) as a half price introductory offer from New Scientist magazine. I must find a PP9 battery to test it.

http://www.vintagebritishcalculators.in ... .html#1200

Bowmar "Brain"?

[Arch_Enemy]

My fingers.

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