Danp Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 Kit that is still in use, I'd guess at Epson projectors and smartboards from around 2005 (before me) but we do have a couple of older bits in storage for some reason.
mikeprice Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 A lot of the software at my last school seemed pretty old which was confirmed when I found the original installation CDs (yup CDs) in an old cupboard on summer most said it was compatible with Windows 95 and 98 - no mention of anything else and there were 2 Promethian IWBs that seemed identical to ones I had seen when I started teachering - in 2003 I was amazed when it all worked on Windows 10 without any problems!!
psydii Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 Not strictly pieces of kit, but there is a mailbox that was initially created in 2000, it is now residing in its fourth AD Forest and our main shared drive can trace its lineage (and some of its documents) to 1998.
DavR Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 I think here it's between some old HP L1506 monitors on boxes no-one needs to look at, and the UPS on my backup server which is 2005, so 15 years! It's had new batteries recently though, promise.
sigma Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 I still have the paper tape of the very first program I ever wrote. We wrote the program on coding paper and it was taken to the local Honeywell office for it to be punched. We were the first class to do programming as an extra curricula activity at my school. Circa 1976. Of course that makes me vintage also.
mikeprice Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 I still have the paper tape of the very first program I ever wrote. We wrote the program on coding paper and it was taken to the local Honeywell office for it to be punched. We were the first class to do programming as an extra curricula activity at my school. Circa 1976. Of course that makes me vintage also. oo oo ooo - what kind of Honeywell computers did it run on - I started programming on those things - loved them Ok they were rubbish and crashed a lot - but that was why I loved them - they were interesting (as in 'may you live in interesting time') - never knew what would happen when you tried something new! 1
sigma Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 No idea, it was whatever they had at Honeywell in Brentford. My teacher, Mrs Berners Lee apparently had contacts that would run our programs for us. I’m really an IBM/360/370 kind of person. 1
3s-gtech Posted July 20, 2023 Posted July 20, 2023 Just checked an old Xibo PC that I don't use very often. I knew it was old, but on checking it's powered by a Core 2 Duo e6600! 4GB RAM, a 64GB SSD and HD5450 graphics complete the bleeding edge. 17 year old CPU still (just about) running Windows 10 in an active role...I should probably replace it but the case fits nicely in a network cabinet!
Chris_Cook Posted July 20, 2023 Posted July 20, 2023 Found an old Acorn/BBC econet box hiding in a cupboard the other day. The mains socket was still labeled "Do not switch off"... One of our network shares was called "WP51", after Word Perfect 5.1 from about 1991. There's a CNC Lathe in one of our cupboards, I'm not sure if its the Dos or BBC version. The software seemed to run in Dosbox, but I've not had the time to try it live, as the dept don't use/need it. I've also got myself an Avolites Pearl lighting desk from the mid 90's that I still use. 1
2ilent8cho Posted July 21, 2023 Posted July 21, 2023 Still got an old Acer laptop with Windows NT 4 on I use for the serial port and hyper terminal. Had to boot it earlier in the year to factory reset something.
Davit2005 Posted July 21, 2023 Posted July 21, 2023 Found an old Acorn/BBC econet box hiding in a cupboard the other day. The mains socket was still labeled "Do not switch off"... One of our network shares was called "WP51", after Word Perfect 5.1 from about 1991. There's a CNC Lathe in one of our cupboards, I'm not sure if its the Dos or BBC version. The software seemed to run in Dosbox, but I've not had the time to try it live, as the dept don't use/need it. I've also got myself an Avolites Pearl lighting desk from the mid 90's that I still use. At engineering college in late 80's we had some small desktop CNC machines, they were BBC I think both lathes and little milling machines. Have you got a picture of it :-)
Chris_Cook Posted July 21, 2023 Posted July 21, 2023 At engineering college in late 80's we had some small desktop CNC machines, they were BBC I think both lathes and little milling machines. Have you got a picture of it :-) Its similar to this: https://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/forum/general/35006-look-what-followed-me-home-today 1
mikeprice Posted July 22, 2023 Posted July 22, 2023 I do wonder if the last big company I worked for are still running their credit card authorisations through the system I put together It ran on a PC running Dos it was Dos 5 until all the Year 2000 faffing about and I went mad and upgraded it to DOS 6.2 Last I heard it was still running - as well as the interface programs I wrote well after 2005/6 sort of time - apparently they were scared to change anything as there was no-one left who knew how it worked (note - there was - there were 2 member of our old team and I had left lots of documentation - I suspect they were just feigning ignorance as they were annoyed about being sold off to another company along with a support contract) anyway - who knows I can imagine bet the last school I worked in are still running software that came on a CD (!) which said "Compatible with Windows 95"
hardtailstar Posted July 23, 2023 Posted July 23, 2023 The company I work for still uses 2015 Macbook Airs.
DavR Posted July 23, 2023 Posted July 23, 2023 We'll be replacing our last 1st Gen Promethean ActivBoard next week - can anyone remember when these came out? I can remember doing a first big install of ActivBoards in a school about 2004/5, but I think even then we may already have been on 2nd Gen boards....
6Foot2 Posted July 23, 2023 Posted July 23, 2023 We'll be replacing our last 1st Gen Promethean ActivBoard next week - can anyone remember when these came out? I can remember doing a first big install of ActivBoards in a school about 2004/5, but I think even then we may already have been on 2nd Gen boards.... We had 60 to 70 Promethean ActivBoards (I forget the ACTUAL number) by the time I left, there were about 10 non-Promethean solutions (there was an 8/2 mix of two brands of interactive panels) I don't know how they're fixed now, but given their history, I'd say that things have not moved on much.
mikeprice Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 We'll be replacing our last 1st Gen Promethean ActivBoard next week - can anyone remember when these came out? I can remember doing a first big install of ActivBoards in a school about 2004/5, but I think even then we may already have been on 2nd Gen boards.... First ones I saw were in 2003 - both teacher training placement school had then as the LEA had turned up with 2 per school One was being used as a doorstop in an IT room that had no windows or air con (!) the other wsa being used as a projection screen - never been plugged in I learned how to use them in my second school where it was also being used as a projection screen but was plugged in - I found the manual, updated the software and worked out how to use it Naturally the LEA had turned up with them as a gift then left expecting them to revolutionise teaching and learning by magic 1
DavR Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 Naturally the LEA had turned up with them as a gift then left expecting them to revolutionise teaching and learning by magic Sounds about right! My first experience of IWB at all was in my first job c. 2003 - we had one whiteboard, in a four form entry secondary school. It was on wheels and got used as a portable projection screen occasionally. No-one ever plugged the interactive element in.
localzuk Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 Projector in the library at this school is from 2001. Still working fine - it is only ever used for governors meetings to show powerpoints. Has its original lamp in, and has only done about 600 hours of use in that time.
mikeprice Posted July 25, 2023 Posted July 25, 2023 Sounds about right! My first experience of IWB at all was in my first job c. 2003 - we had one whiteboard, in a four form entry secondary school. It was on wheels and got used as a portable projection screen occasionally. No-one ever plugged the interactive element in. After the teaching practices at schools we all did a feedback session and the subject of IWBs came Our mentor thought it would be a good idea for us to learn some more about it - as the IT techers could be the "champions" for them in the school He couldn;t find a teacher in any local school who knew enough to come in and talk to us about them I ended up doing it!!! based on a hour or so of self learning while trying to do a PGCE and teach classes In 10 years of teaching in secondary school the only "course" I ever got for them was a session of about 30 minutes from the MFL department showing how wonderful they are But it was al based on "look at the flashy things I remember from the course I did" after the sessions I was in I did a short off-the-cuff bit about what do do when they won't work - complex stuff like making sure it is switched on - based on what the IT tech had been moaning about since MFL got them installed This was about 2012 - I had been using mine since I started teaching!!!!
mikeprice Posted July 28, 2023 Posted July 28, 2023 (edited) Slightly off topic - but I have been clearing out some rubbish and in a box I found this Clearly it is obvious to everyone exactly what these are No?? well these are the first computer that I worked on - well, not counting a few bits on ICL/IBM thnigies while at University They are Honeywell L6 computers that would have been running the GCOS6 MOD400 operating system - although some would also have been running the MOD200 system which was faster but ran in 8 bit mode so was rather limited They ran the whole Customer Service Centre system - although that term was not used at the time The photo was taken during the installation of the brand new Telephone Ordering system where you could ring up to place an order ratehr than having to fill in a form and post it We were the second organisation to make this possible The disk drives - the box things about the size of a large washing machine (plus a bit) - had a massive 256MByte capacity and came in those blue cases on top of the drives - they went wrong a lot - almost as much as the computers!!!! anyway - I doubt any are still running - the operating system sort of died 31 December 1999 at 23:59 - for obvious reasons - although I did try it post 2000 and it seemed to work. I was ordered not to continue testing as testing the systems we were actually going to use was thought to be more important Basically I loved these machines and their op. system - they went wrong in all sorts of interesting ways - unlike modern systems that are boringly reliable (and YES I do include WIndows!!) EDIT - yes - I know there is no picture - still trying to put it in - just won;t upload for $reasons Edited July 28, 2023 by mikeprice
HarryMonkey Posted July 28, 2023 Posted July 28, 2023 , not counting a few bits on ICL/IBM thnigies while at University Ooooh, ICL. Where it all started for me ... Oxford Regional Health Authority back in 1978 with an ICL 1903T running George III Happy days.
mikeprice Posted July 31, 2023 Posted July 31, 2023 Trying phot of Level6s again No failed again Can anyone see it?? @Dos_Box?? help??
Dos_Box Posted August 1, 2023 Posted August 1, 2023 Trying phot of Level6s again No failed again Can anyone see it?? @Dos_Box?? help?? How large (file size) is the pic?. Try reducing it in size if possible. If that doesn't work then let me know and I'll have @ZeroHour take a look for you.
Dos_Box Posted August 3, 2023 Posted August 3, 2023 Here is the pic @mikeprice has been trying to post:
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