Oldest rig that's still running, or still CAN run

I'm not sure about specs on it, but my neighbor has a pc that is so old and slow that it cannot run Windows 3.1, it's DOS only.

My first computer still runs. It is pre mouse, and runs at an impressive 5 mhz, and the operating system that it boots from is on a floppy disk that is truly floppy. It is an IBM 8086, just one model older than JigPu's computer.

I like this review of the zx81

http://oldcomputers.net/zx81.html


I have a commodore64 with the casette drive add-on and a VIC20 and an original Atari, too I think.

I beat Far Cry on my dual 1ghz PIII on medium details. Dreamfall too. I would have done Oblivion if it weren't the buggy POS that it is. It was my main computer at school last year. Ran 24/7 with the PCI bus overclocked to 44mhz.

http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/7558/1001535hw5.jpg
http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/2021/10017962zp4.jpg
On the front: "COMTEX TURBO"
On the back: "COMTEX AT 286
DISTRIBUTED BY: COMTEX MICRO SYSTEM INC."
It has a NYCOM mobo and APEX shell.
I noticed a 25Mhz crystal oscillator on the mobo too.

That is really all I know about it as old-computers.com does not seem to have any info about it and google just turns up 3 pages of unrelated stuff.
Information about it would be appreciated.

Kind of amusing that this is my only pc (out of 6) that currently works without flaw and has never had any problems that I know about.

*Edit
I have this too. However I have no clue what it is or what it was from.
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/497/10015152jq6.jpg
Sadly though some of it's components are missing or damaged so until I fix it I cannot play around with it.

being a youngster. My oldest pc was a 100mhz pentium w/ MMX.

I found a DX couple months ago from 1994. Someone wanted to throw it out. It worked but I just took out a hard drive from it and put it in my PC. It worked for a week or so and then it stopped.

TRS-80

As for pc architecture, I've got a PII 200 that still works. Of course I have the gratuitous Commadore 64 sitting in my room, but I haven't fired it up in years. I threw out an old Intellivision a few years ago, when we cleaned out a ton of stuff that never got unpacked after we moved here back in '95. I don't know if it still worked after sitting in a damp basement for 7 or so years, but it was working when I packed it. Makes me kinda sad.

WHOEVER has the enigma machine from ww2 used by the germans wins. That was technically the first computer. It decoded messages used by the allies.

=D =D

This computer is not mine but I work on it quite frequently at a friends house.

The SWTPC 6800 release date 1976.



Manufacturer - Southwest Technical Products Corporation
Model - 6800
Date Announced - 1976

Specifications:
Processor - Motorola 6800
Speed - 1 Mhz
RAM - 2K+
ROM - 8K
Storage - Paper tape, cassette tape, disk all as options
Expansion - SS-50 and SS-30 cards
Bus - SS-50, SS-30
Video - Terminal Based
I/O - Optional Parallel and Serial