Oldest running Mac?

[thomastsui]

I was a PC user,

1) Pentium 133 , 2.4GBHDD and 32MB edo-ram, Creative SB 16, Song SFII 15"

Runing Windows 95 -> Windows 95wInternet explorer

-the seller said 2.4 GB HDD and load as much as i can and 32MB RAM is just more than enough

2) 3 yrs later, I DIY my new P2-400Mhz, 128MB SD-RAM with 10GB HDD, SB-live! and TNT display w16RM

Soon, I upgrade it in to

P2400, 512MB-SDRAM, 40GB+30GB+10GBX2 HDD + ATA 133 Raid PCI and TNT2 w32MB RAM

Windows 2000 Server

3) Then, I become a PC-IT guys and built up my home network with my P2-400, and then a P2-233+128RM+80GBx2 running Windows2000Advanced Server, running as a file server, print server and ftp+http

and a AMD-K62-350 w 512MB-RAM W 40GB for my brother, and a

Pentium 100mhz + 16MB RAM + 1GB HDD runing Windows95+winrountpro as a Rounter sharing internet connection.

4) In two years ago, my dad bought me a new toy, Powerbook G3-333 with USB runing OSX-10.1, and then , i turn back to OS9.2

5) In 3yrs ago. I bought a new computer, that is , Powerbook 667 DVI 512MB + 30GB HDD, and it is still serving me very well now.

6) and I also bought a PM6100-66AV with 48MB-RAM, just wanna play it as a heritage, well......with OS8.6

But it is so slow that, i cannot even view website in a decent speed....

 

[slaguru]

I have 2 SE30's

Still in use, and I still try to get web browsers and the like. Love them both, and cant see me every getting rid. I have an old PB100 as well, but don't work unless the battery is held in with gaffer tape !!!

T

 

[Mechcozmo]

I've got a Mac Plus. 1 MB of RAM, 800 KB floppy drive, SCSI 100 MB hard drive external.

Damn, that thing rocked.

Don't use it much... the hard drive has its own power cable, so it is a bit hard to set up and stuff. Otherwise I would use that. Less distractions, yknow?

I also have a Mac 512K that I think I will just use the case for a Home Media Center project. Hate to do that... but it just can't do much anymore. No SCSI, no networking ports, etc.

PowerTower Pro 225 is a guest computer. I don't use it much, but when people drop by, they use that one. It is a bit slow, but you know something is wrong when people thing it is FASTER than their P4 because they can't clean out their spyware.

 

[Mechcozmo]

a) 512ke running 6.0.8 off of an external 32MB hard drive.

The 512Ke doesn't have a SCSI bus. I know-- I have a 512K sitting on the floor here. The first one that did was the Mac Plus. I have one of those, too.

(oh, and I've got a SE/30 that my mother uses for email, on a 2400 baud moden...)

What ISPs support 2400 baud modems? I thought the lowest most of them went nowadays was ~28Kbps?

 

[yellow]

The oldest I have is an SE/30 from college. Still functional (barely).

The oldest I have running (Super legacy software) is a Mac II, I have to keep 2 more of them around for space parts.

 

[iPoster]

Proud owner of a mid 2003 iMac 17" 1ghz!

Yes, I'm an Apple newbie...

 

[jefhatfield]

this thread made me pull out the old 5 1/2 year old ibook an take it for a spin for a couple of hours...nanosaur, appleworks, sherlock...it was fun, too

the battery charged up and still has more than two hours life on it per charge!

 

[Platform]

up until late last year, i used a 1999 compaq presario 366 mhz k6-2, 160 mb ram, 4.3 gb hard drive, 2 mb video card laptop...it's basically between a similarly configured 366 mhz celeron and a 366 mhz pentium II

my friend, an assembly language/machine language military programmer (proprietary code) of 23 years, now uses a pentium, 220 mhz pc tower for his work 50+ hours a week from home...he doesn't utilize gui so there is no need for anything stronger

for many years before that, until last year, he used a 486 for his extremely extensive low level programming and experimentation

it all depends what one uses a computer for and for many professional people in the computer science world, many computers made in the 1990s suit their needs just fine

Pentium I at 200Mhz running windows 95, and it is in use, even for email
Also a Pentium II at 266Mhz running windows 98, that one is also for email,
Pentium III at 500Mhz running windows 98 that is used on an every day basis,
2 Pentium 4 one at 1.8Ghz and one at 2.8Ghz both running XP

Edit: forgot: Thosiba Laptop from 1997 running windows 3.1
And 'newer' HP Laptop Pentium 4 2.8 runing XP

 

[RacerX]

I was a PC user,

1) Pentium 133...

Oh, well if we are going to look at other types of computers...

On the PC side my oldest is a DEC Celebris XL5133 (which is now in storage) from around 1995. It was originally running on dual Pentium/133 processors, but I upgraded them to Pentium/166. When I originally got it (about 1998) I had NEXTSTEP 3.3 installed on it. It was later updated to OPENSTEP 4.1, then OPENSTEP 4.2, and finally upgraded to Rhapsody 5.1.

The oldest PC I have running is my IBM ThinkPad 760ED (which was from around 1997 as I recall). It uses a Pentium 133. It also went through the same operating systems (NEXTSTEP 3.3, OPENSTEP 4.1, OPENSTEP 4.2 and finally Rhapsody 5.1).

On the non-PC side of things, my oldest SGI is an IRIS Indigo workstation (with an MIPS R3000 processor at 33 MHz) from around 1991. I actually have two of them, both running IRIX 5.3. They don't see much use anymore as I spend most of my time on my Indy (from around 1994, which originally came with an R4600sc/133 but I upgraded it to an R4400sc/175 which gave me a 50% increase in floating point abilities) which has IRIX 6.2 on it.

My oldest Sun is a SPARCclassic (from around 1993, which has a microSPARC at 50 MHz in it). I have Solaris 7 running on it, but I'm thinking about taking it down to Solaris 2.4 or 2.5 (speed issues). I have two of these also, but one is actually a parts system for the other one.

Also, I rarely (if ever) use my Suns. There is currently no place within the work I do that requires anything that they provide (unlike my Indy which is irreplaceable).

 

[thomastsui]

On the non-PC side of things, my oldest SGI is an IRIS Indigo workstation (with an MIPS R3000 processor at 33 MHz) from around 1991. I actually have two of them, both running IRIX 5.3. They don't see much use anymore as I spend most of my time on my Indy (from around 1994, which originally came with an R4600sc/133 but I upgraded it to an R4400sc/175 which gave me a 50% increase in floating point abilities) which has IRIX 6.2 on it.

Cool, i can see photoshop 3.0 running on that SGI. Photoshop 3.0 was the first photoshop i used.

Well. I am going to install Solaris 10 on my PC, what the solaris can actually do? beside web server, database?

 

[tsk]

A lab I used to teach has a room full of Apple IIe's or something running. It's pretty bad,

 

[snooziums]

I've got a Mac Plus I use to read email and spod from.

I'd like to see a PC from 1986 get on the internet.

Actually, I have. I have an old 286 computer, running at 6 MHz that I got into the Internet (although at a slow 2.400 Kbps rate). The mainboard was actually made in 1985, and is the first clone of the IBM AT-class computers ever.

The mainboard is huge, at 14" by 15", and contains no chipset. It uses off-the-shelf components and no large-scale chips (except for then 286 16-bit processor). In fact, every chip can me replaced by looking through electronics catalogs, and there are no surface-mount chips, so replacing them is not that hard.

The video card even had composite-out for connecting to a TV set. And it had one 3 & 1/2 720k disk drive and a 20 mb hard drive (yes, 20mb).

Do not really use it much anymore, as it only runs DOS and Windows286 (Pre-Windows 3.0 and way pre-Windoze95). And I am now loyal to the Mac platform.

However, it is a great classic, and I plan to keep it.

 

[Les Kern]

Original Macintosh, model M00001. Still works perfectly.

 

[Mechcozmo]

Actually, I have. I have an old 286 computer, running at 6 MHz that I got into the Internet (although at a slow 2.400 Kbps rate). The mainboard was actually made in 1985, and is the first clone of the IBM AT-class computers ever.

But what ISP allows you to connect at that slow of a rate? 2400 baud (right?) is really low. Most places support at the minimum 28.6 Kbps IIRC. Not sure about that even now...

 

[stridey]

But what ISP allows you to connect at that slow of a rate? 2400 baud (right?) is really low. Most places support at the minimum 28.6 Kbps IIRC. Not sure about that even now...

...Are you sure you want to know? AOL. At least, they did a year ago.

 

[Mechcozmo]

...Are you sure you want to know? AOL. At least, they did a year ago.

Holy modem noise Batman!

 

[andypress]

I was a PC user,

1) Pentium 133 , 2.4GBHDD and 32MB edo-ram, Creative SB 16, Song SFII 15"

Runing Windows 95 -> Windows 95wInternet explorer

-the seller said 2.4 GB HDD and load as much as i can and 32MB RAM is just more than enough

2) 3 yrs later, I DIY my new P2-400Mhz, 128MB SD-RAM with 10GB HDD, SB-live! and TNT display w16RM

Soon, I upgrade it in to

P2400, 512MB-SDRAM, 40GB+30GB+10GBX2 HDD + ATA 133 Raid PCI and TNT2 w32MB RAM

Windows 2000 Server

3) Then, I become a PC-IT guys and built up my home network with my P2-400, and then a P2-233+128RM+80GBx2 running Windows2000Advanced Server, running as a file server, print server and ftp+http

and a AMD-K62-350 w 512MB-RAM W 40GB for my brother, and a

Pentium 100mhz + 16MB RAM + 1GB HDD runing Windows95+winrountpro as a Rounter sharing internet connection.

4) In two years ago, my dad bought me a new toy, Powerbook G3-333 with USB runing OSX-10.1, and then , i turn back to OS9.2

5) In 3yrs ago. I bought a new computer, that is , Powerbook 667 DVI 512MB + 30GB HDD, and it is still serving me very well now.

6) and I also bought a PM6100-66AV with 48MB-RAM, just wanna play it as a heritage, well......with OS8.6

But it is so slow that, i cannot even view website in a decent speed....

I suggest you check out the older Mozila browser, should speed things up. i'm still running a Powermac 6100 as my webserver, although it has been heavily upgraded to a G3 250mhz, 256mb of ram, and two 4gb hard drives.

 

[punkbass25]

my oldest working mac is the first computer my dad ever bought (got it when i was 2-3) a mac IIci running 7.5!

but the oldest mac i use regularly is a powermac clone from power computing circa 1993 (?) with an upgraded 400mhz g4 (which was ****in SMOKIN at the time) it runs 10.2 kinda but mostly 9.2.2

 

[Sharewaredemon]

My LcII with 4mb of ram, and a 40mb harddrive, think it came out around 92, has OS 7, still works like new, though I hardly use it anymore since about 98.

Dave

Hahahaha I have that computer too!
Course I killed it somehow and we got an LC475 as a replacement.
I can't remember the specs for the life of my, but I think it's running system 7.6 like yours.

 

[FoxyKaye]

Well, my oldest Apple is the //c - complete with Imagewriter I (that was a great printer - it still works!), external FDD, and the big green monitor. My dad bought it for the family in 1982, and last I checked a year or so ago it still boots & runs all the early stuff: AppleWorks 1.3, games, BASIC, etc...

Oldest Mac is the B/W (below) I bought second hand from a MR member - it replaced a beige G3 that was having MoBo problems (which I also purchased second hand).

Newest is my iMac G5, which positively screams.

 

[chaosbunny]

My father has a Mac SE from 1986? I think, which still boots up fine. I'm not sure but I think it's running OS 7. Now a friend of him has it but I'll get it when he has finished playing around with it a little bit. It's a cute little machine but it will stand around for decoration only.

My girlfriend uses an orange 300 mhz G3 ibook almost every day for internet browsing, mail and word. It' running 10.3.7.

My oldest Mac is the Cube in my sig, I have it since 2001 and will keep it forever.

My oldest computer is an Amiga 500, which is great for all those lovely old games, like Turrican, Wintergames, North and South, etc.

 

[cooknwitha]

I have a 475 and PowerPC 7200 in the cupboard. Haven't used them in a while. The oldest Mac I regularly use is this one.

 

[hcuar]

Well... since I recently acquired some vintage Macs, I'll add my antiques to the list.

Oldest running Mac: Powerbook 160
Oldest running Mac that is useable: Powermac 6400

 

[Mass Hysteria]

Ye olde Macvintosh

Oldest running computer is TI994a Texas Instruments - I only dig this out for a raging fit of nostalgia every now and then.

Oldest running mac is my 9500/132MHz with drives from old IBM servers, PCs and memory from PCs, servers and Scitex Level 2 RIPs. What ever I chuck in, it just seems to work! I just leave it on and its looking for little green men as I write.

I would love to chock it out with memory as it's got 12 slots for RAM but I can never find it for a reasonable price.

 

[Plymouthbreezer]

My oldest running Mac is my iMac DV+ 450MHz which was purchased in July 2000. It still sees daily use by my parents, who use it for e-mail and web surfing mainly. It's been upgraded from a 20GB hard drive to a 60GB hard drive, and from 128 MB RAM to 320 MB. The DVD drive it came with was broken by none other than me in April of 2003 (I shoved a business card CD in its slot), but it was later replaced with a CD-ROM drive after I got my G4.

Otherwise, it's still a great machine that could be used as a primary computer if needed.