What is the oldest component in your main computer?

[Namagomi]

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

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]

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.

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

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...

 

[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

 

[lazerin]

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

 

[mordy]

oldest

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]

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.

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

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...

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

 

[---X---]

The sad thing is, Im in computer programming right now in school (just Visual Basic, actually ), 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]

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.

 

[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.