What's The Oldest Piece of Computer Equipment you Own?

The VCR King

The VCR King

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The oldest thing I have is an old Seagate U6 40GB IDE hard disk. I have it on a USB-to-IDE adapter and it's plugged into my router and works as a (quite horrible) NAS system.
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Probably a P2 300 MHz and some random slot1 motherboard I got for free from some guy on Craigslist. Also a few random sticks of PC133

The VCR King said:
I have it on a USB-to-IDE adapter and it's plugged into my router
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That sounds like it would have been cheaper, faster and more reliable with a 32 GB flash drive instead.
 
Don't have hardware. Have software though. Windows 3.1 on 3-1/2 disc.
95osr2 and windows 98 2nd edition. Still have a notebook (for notes) dating back
to 1978. Programming in dos in machine language. Cant get rid of em. My memorys.
 
I went through and purged most of my old stuff. My old Gateway E4100 finally went out the door. Still have the LCD panel that came with that.

The oldest thing I have is my AM3 motherboard from 2010 and my DL360 G6 which was probably manufactured in 2009. Oh, and my Macbook, which is a late 2009 model.
 
Up until a year ago, my oldest piece of hardware was a Tandy TRS-80 computer built in 1979! I sold it as well as the rest of my vintage computer collection because it just took too much space to store them all.

Currently, the oldest piece of hardware I have is an IBM Model M keyboard that I got with an IBM XT-286 computer in 1986. The IBM Model M keyboard is considered to be one of the best keyboards ever made. Mine is still 100% functional after being used for 29 straight years!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_keyboard
 
still have my old lg keyboard and wireless mouse from 2006.good thing i touch type as a lot of keys have the letters wiped off from so much use.lol
 
Have a few old Quantum Fireball HDD's, an old PS/2 keyboard (which came into good use), A Zip drive, an old HP netbook of which I can't remember the name. It has a mouse that pops out. Has Windows 98se, and a USB floppy drive.

Actually, I do have some other PATA floppy drives as well.
 
ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Dragon32, Oric, Acrons... all in the attic. :D They're all getting on for twice my age. :)
 
Does a fully operational Radio Shack Model 3 count? Build this sucker up from parts in the original housing, but replaced the 2 non functional 51/4 drives with a 1 functional half-drive and 1X1.4MB drive. Love to use it, run sometimes one of the DOS games on it. Also like to use it as an ordinary Terminal with PICAXE or Arduino based hardware.
 
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