Tesla Posted February 25, 2014 Author Posted February 25, 2014 (edited) You're all mostly beating me for ancient gear, i have an unopened windows 98SE installation pack... Edited February 25, 2014 by Tesla
Theblacksheep Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 Found an almost square RM mouse the other day from a 286.
hallb15 Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 I've got a Valiant Turtle and two Roamers. Their website looks like its from the 1990s! Valiant Technology Ltd.
hardtailstar Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 Found a floppy disc today. The office found a box of floppy discs yesterday.
Nibiru Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 I still occasionally get asked to rescue files off floppy discs. Thank goodness for usb floppy drives. 5.25" floppys still turn up in the back of cupboards every now and then - when Im asked whats the best thing to do with them they get lobbed into the wastebin
fairm010 Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 Loads of photos of my school being built! [ATTACH=CONFIG]23013[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]23014[/ATTACH]
Tesla Posted February 25, 2014 Author Posted February 25, 2014 we have roamers too (with changeable skins!), but the battery charger pack is broken, so we have those busy bee things currently...
hallb15 Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 I have a box of these [ATTACH=CONFIG]23015[/ATTACH] I have a load too - mine have got snapshots of all my fave spectrum games on them though so I can't bring myself to get rid (Jet Set Willy anyone?)
hallb15 Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 we have roamers too (with changeable skins!), but the battery charger pack is broken, so we have those busy bee things currently... Yes, we have Bee Bots and their bigger brother, the Pro Bot. There's even a free Bee Bot app for iPhone/iPod now.
Chris_ Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 You're all mostly beating me for ancient gear, i have an unopened windows 98SE installation pack... [ATTACH=CONFIG]23010[/ATTACH] Pfft.. http://i.imgur.com/aO9hq4Ys.jpg
HTCPCP Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 Just taken out of service an old Pentium 2 machine running Windows 2k.... No one realized it was still there working either! Ah the good old days of technology we grew up with eh?
HTCPCP Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 I know we still have a BBC Micro tucked away above a cleaners cupboard, but never remember to dig it out when sending stuff for recycling. No point in us keeping it since the monitors and drives went out 15 years ago. Don't recycle them, sell them! Worth a couple of quid on ebay now!
Tesla Posted February 26, 2014 Author Posted February 26, 2014 Pfft.. http://i.imgur.com/aO9hq4Ys.jpg told you most people were beating me, you're no exception! Considering this site has only been here since 2007, though, it's a bit strange all this super old gear lying around.
Norphy Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 (edited) Just taken out of service an old Pentium 2 machine running Windows 2k.... No one realized it was still there working either! Ah the good old days of technology we grew up with eh? ... I grew up with an Amstrad PC1512. That had 512kb of RAM, an 8086 CPU, DR DOS and the GEM GUI. It had two (count them, two!) 5.25" floppy drives, a monochrome (upgraded to a colour CGA, four whole colours!) monitor and later on a 10MB hard drive card. I still have difficulty considering anything with the name "Pentium" to be old. And even then I'm a n00b compared to some on here Edited February 26, 2014 by Norphy
Tesla Posted February 26, 2014 Author Posted February 26, 2014 The first PC i ever got my hands on was a 386, somehow i got a virus or something on it (Dr Watson rings a bell) and it got rid of minesweeper and solitaire D: ( i was about 4 at the time....) Then we had a 486 PC, followed by a pentium 200mhz beast. The family pc is now an old and barely used pentium 4 pc, which is on it's last legs, everyone has laptops and tablets etc now, so its just left in the corner of the dining room slowly gathering dust, poor thing.
Roberto Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 (edited) Oldest stuff eh? Despite @Norphy's claims earlier when he told me about this thread, I wasn't involved in designing colossus. Or the atom. Could be the IBM 3090 which was the first 'professional' computer I used in my first IT job, in the 80s. We actually had this connected to the internet. Or the VAX 6000 I used to use at an old Uni job. Or the Texas Instruments TIMAP (discussed but not really seen here but if you want to know what it was like, imagine 6 very loud 1-inch reel tape drives which were in floor-standing units that went to head height, a complex panel full of blinkenlights and trip-switches, and a teletype console with a large paper hopper behind it with a PFY sitting at its keyboard weeping) which was also part of the equipment we used at my first IT job (oil exploration for GSI/HGS). On the first day I started there I was told "we're getting rid of that TIMAP thing soon". 6 years later when they closed my datacentre and paid me to be part of the decommissioning team for the centre, the TIMAP was one of the last things we turned off. It was a beast that booted from a set of hand-coded instructions you entered via a series of binary switches on the front panel, which provided enough of a bootstrap to load the OS from punched paper card. This then allowed you to load programs from drum storage and data from 1-inch magnetic tape. Edited February 26, 2014 by Roberto
Norphy Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 Oldest stuff eh? Despite @Norphy's claims earlier when he told me about this thread, I wasn't involved in designing colossus. Or the atom. My mistake. What is the Babbage Difference Engine you were involved with then? 1
madurham Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 Well the school was formed in 1595 and was boarding till the '90s, I think. There's so much old stuff here they have an archive room (museum). We've found empty tins of baked beans and apricots, newspaper cuttings, fag packets all from 40s-60's. Computerwise I'm currently using a mud brown, unbranded 'laptop' running 3.1 as a foot rest. We booted it up successfully last week.
localzuk Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 Got a BBC Master in the cupboard and an Acorn Archimedes A3000 in the cupboard - both still work. We hooked them up to a projector (only thing we had to hand which had composite input), and fired up Crystal Forest on the Acorn. Got a Toshiba 386 laptop too, also still works.
Trojan Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 I found one of these the other day: http://www.clickykeyboard.com/2009/jan24/012.JPG
Trojan Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 And we have several of these beauties: eMate 300 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
itgeek1989 Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 Makes me wonder what this thread would look like in say 20 years... Found an iPad tucked away in a cupboard the other day. Still running iOS 7!! You know the ones where you had to touch to type... None of this thought activated typing. Ahh the good old days! 4
Chris_Cook Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 We found a couple of laptops last year. One hadn't been used since 1998, the other was an Acorn A4. Both were faster than the laptops we have now... And I nearly resorted to using a 3.5" floppy disk earlier when I couldn't find a memory stick. Today was a bad day.
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