What is the oldest component in your main computer?

[fUzZ bUnNy]

I have two things from a 1992 386 my parents used to have

An IBM mechanical keyboard that "clicks" with every key that is the best keyboard that i have ever owned

The floppy from this 386.

What can I say I am a frugal overclocker; it goes with the economics!

P.S. All this stuff is attached to my new Albatron PEV845 w/ 2.26 P4 @ 2.72.

:D the bunny

[Wolfe]

i use a floppy cable i puled out of a 386 i found on the curb one day. It works and dates back to before i was into computers.

[Maxvla]

repost. but thats ok :)

oldest part in my current pc is my dvdrom which is 11 months old now. newest part is actually my floppy. rofl.

[itizme]

Oldest, my floppy, no once again I fail to be right
the power supply I run my fans and lights on is from some ole ancient "Invented By Morons"
Why the heck do I have a floppy anyway, I never ever use it???

[Mr B]

The dustball in the back between the mobo tray and the right side panel...it's been in there since the dawn of time....:p

[john240sx]

the oldest would be the case, then my Soundblaster 5.1 and GF2MX400 (i bought them on the same day)

[CrystalMethod]

The oldest part in my system would be either my Creative DVD 5X, or my Creative CD 48X.

[funnyperson1]

the oldest is currently the AWE64 i have running here:)

[Mike K]

My Antec 350W psu. Has served great for over 1 1/2 years now in 3 computers.

[specific]

my modem is over two years old, and it's seen 3 different cases and 4 motherboards.

[skou]

The two 5.25 floppies, one in each of my TH711s.

steve

[Robbie]

30 gig, the 80 died!!
Rob

[The Spyder]

Hummm....... the Innvotech fan i pulled from a p166 fan thats 6yrs old......... :D the rest are not more then 6months :) (this is my second PC)

Main pc is all new.......

[nut581]

viewsonic 17' monitor, logitech itouch cordless keyboard+mouse combo, maxtor 27.6 GB 5400 rpm. I got em all like 2 yrs ago and still running :) .. well, back when in my home country, Soundblaster AWE32 ISA version is the oldest stuff I have (like 6 yrs old) .. and everytime I get back home on vacation, i have to live with it :D

[Lithan]

"Why the heck do I have a floppy anyway, I never ever use it???"

My floppy drive just died. I'm not in any hurry to replace it... though I do use them on occasion.

Uhh, oldest part? My Power supply right now is an L&C 300watt I got when I put together a k62 350 back when they were the hottest thing AMD made. But that should be gone within two weeks.

My case is about a year old. I just took out a 42x Kenwood cd that was about 2 years old. Im about to take out a 13gig WD dma66 that replaced a 1 year old one that had to be rma'd (died). No clue how old my case fan is... had it about a year and a half... though I bet they are mid 90's models. Net card's probably 2 years old.

I'd guess the power supply is the oldest part to me. And when it goes then I'll say the case fan. Oldest component is my 3com 3c905c-tx (There may be a "m" in that name somewhere "tx-m" maybe) I've had it close to 2 years. got 2 of those cards, 2 905b's and a 905 in a lot for 30something bucks. sold as-is. they all worked. Sold the other 905c to a buddy for 20$, dropped the 905 into my parents comp when they got cable internet, have one of the b's in a 200mmx, and I think the other b is still laying around here. Hmm Im babbling. Anyhow. If Im not mistaken the Power supplies like 5 years old. Anyone know when the k62 350 came out? Am I wrong thinking it was early 98?

[Diggrr]

You have to have a floppy if you want raid and WinXP in the same machine, there's no other way of installing the raid drivers. Stoopid Billy the un-natural goat breeder.

The oldest thing in my computer is ME (or rather, my hands)!
I've always gotta tinker.

The oldest hardware in my computer...heck, there's only one thing in there that wasn't bought for this computer, my Plextor CD writer (12/10/32).

[JFettig]

my keyboard is over 10yrs old... from my first computer, a packard bell p60. lol, then i have a 30gig hdd thats next, unless my voodoo 5 5500 may be older than that! im sure all the copper is older than anyone here:D

[LiGhTBoY]

Count my old 10x CDRom for me in the system in sig =O

[Penguin4x4]

Originally posted by skou
The two 5.25 floppies, one in each of my TH711s.

steve

Is.........that................possible........... ...:eek: :eek: :eek:

[skou]

Pengpeng, yes this is possible, the bios supports them, but these aren't hooked up, just put in the 5.25 holes.

People look at them and "WTF do those work?"

steve

[Namagomi]

Originally posted by fUzZ bUnNy
An IBM mechanical keyboard that "clicks" with every key that is the best keyboard that i have ever owned

Yes, those DO rule =D too bad they don't make em USB.

Anyways, I suck, i think the oldest component in my main rig in the case =P

[---X---]

My oldest is a crappy 4 year old Gateway 2000 (when it was still 2000) 19" monitor. I haven't touched the top of it since I first put it on the desk, so I think there's about 2 inches of dust back there :eh?:

For the oldest actual component of my actual rig, its my CPU, soundcard, and half my RAM, the only remaining components from a crappy OEM thing transformed into a ghetto-cooled slightly overclocked roughly cobbled together rig :)

[JetMech]

Same here. Got my case in 1999 (Inwin Q500). Had to upgrade the power supply to go P4. I'll always have this case. I love it.

[lclark2074]

5 and 1/4 real flopy. its turnd off in bios but its still works. and 90
90 meg western digtal hdd sometimes! its dosent lock up when my 20 gig isent in the pull bay.

[Mr B]

Originally posted by lclark2074
5 and 1/4 real flopy. its turnd off in bios but its still works. and 90
90 meg western digtal hdd sometimes! its dosent lock up when my 20 gig isent in the pull bay.

On a shelf here, I've got one of those "combo" drives...5 1/4 and 3 1/2" floppy in one. It fits in a regular cd-rom bay. I've never tested the 5 1/4, but the 3 1/2 is known good.

One of these days, I'm gonna pick up an old style desktop case (the kind that lays flat, like the old i386/486/early P I rigs did) that will hold an ATX mobo, and build a rig that looks ancient, but runs current hardware inside. (AMD XP XX00+, etc..)

I've also been looking for an old 2 or 4x cd-rom with a faceplate that will swap onto one of the I/O Magic 52x drives I have, to further the illusion. :p

Then slap this old, old early "intel inside" sticker I pulled off the front bezel of a i486 machine on the front of it.... :D

I've got a 25MB Conner IDE HDD kicking about...it's the standard 3 1/2" size. Wonder how DOS 6.22 would run on a machine approaching 2GHz... :burn:

[JDXNC]

Oldest thing in my case is the case! I had it back when I was runing a K6-2 450..... OH OH WAIT, the pc speaker in that case came from a scrapped 286 server! SO that is the oldest thing! :) The origional speaker got a screwdriver through it so I had to swap it :P

[lazerin]

In my current rig, the oldest thing is my modem. 3yrs old.

[mordy]

Floppy drive . It has 1995 date on it.

[cxb]

Mine have to goto the 80mm fans i ripped out of a 120 and 200 watt PS that i had lying around. These were serving a AMD 133 and a 200something.
laff.

[kaltag]

a 40mm fan from a 2086 i believe. i think that's the model, old flat case with built in screen (4 colors) and 5 1/4 drive. 512k ram. no hdd. circa 1985. :)

[Doofie27cp2]

my floppy drive is from 1996. pulled it from my compaq deskpro. Those were actually pretty reliable machines. Second oldest thing is my HDD, which was dated from january 2000, its a maxtor 13.7 gb

[oops]

main system? Then the 120GB 8MB cache Western Digital Speical Editon is the oldest part in it...........half year old :)

Other stuff are newer.

[Decius]

Oldest part in my Comp is my Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1. I bought it new, and I think it's running on about three years now. But hey it still works great in XP!

[lclark2074]

Originally posted by Mr B


On a shelf here, I've got one of those "combo" drives...5 1/4 and 3 1/2" floppy in one. It fits in a regular cd-rom bay. I've never tested the 5 1/4, but the 3 1/2 is known good.

One of these days, I'm gonna pick up an old style desktop case (the kind that lays flat, like the old i386/486/early P I rigs did) that will hold an ATX mobo, and build a rig that looks ancient, but runs current hardware inside. (AMD XP XX00+, etc..)

I've also been looking for an old 2 or 4x cd-rom with a faceplate that will swap onto one of the I/O Magic 52x drives I have, to further the illusion. :p

Then slap this old, old early "intel inside" sticker I pulled off the front bezel of a i486 machine on the front of it.... :D

I've got a 25MB Conner IDE HDD kicking about...it's the standard 3 1/2" size. Wonder how DOS 6.22 would run on a machine approaching 2GHz... :burn:
i wase thinking of making a sleeper using an old IBM AT the 5 1/4whoud be cdrom remove the guts at and put atx power sp then put a big hdd in it with a 1.8A p4 my only problem is the keyboard it shoud be anold at styill:D

[---X---]

The sad thing is, Im in computer programming right now in school (just Visual Basic, actually :eh?: ), and I have to wait like 5 seconds for My Documents to come up, because this thing is on a PPro 200 :(. Can't even afford a stupid celly or duron...

[shauns]

a really old compaq DVD drive... i think its a 2x =X came from a p2 266 (that i still have)

[SHODAN]

Originally posted by fUzZ bUnNy
I have two things from a 1992 386 my parents used to have

An IBM mechanical keyboard that "clicks" with every key that is the best keyboard that i have ever owned

LOL! The oldest component I use is the circa 1987 keyboard from my first computer, an IBM Personal System/2, and it's the best keyboard I have ever owned. :clap:

[deez]

oldest component is probably one of my 80mm fan's most of which were ripped from old PSU's from dead 286/386 etc...systems

and floppy drive from 1996 -p166 system

also have a SB16 PCI but its actually pretty new. I bought it b/c my old SB16 was ISA and my mobo doesn't have an ISA slot

[Jon]

'89 dated 3 1/2 floppy in my main rig.