Longest working computer

[SimpleSi]

I just replaced a Tosh Sat S1400 laptop (XP - no SP , 256MRam, no wireless) which was being used as the smartboard machine in a Foundation unit this morning.

 

I think it was one of the orig LapFTeachers so probably places it around 8 year mark.

 

Anyone still running anything as old? (And I mean regular use - not a Win98 stuck in a corner being used as a plaything for toddlers )

 

Si

[maniac]

I've got a Dell D600 laptop that our exams officer uses to run her timer application for exams. It must be 6 years old this year.

[Domino]

Our luxembourg office has a white, unbranded server running NT

 

it's only running their finance system.....

[bladedanny]

I've got a Dell D600 laptop that our exams officer uses to run her timer application for exams. It must be 6 years old this year.

 

We've got one or two D600s still in regular use by members of staff. We've upped the RAM and I've been told they're running fine.

[gotenks1321]

Our classroom whiteboard machines and student laptops reached 6 or 7 years old this year. All being replaced as we speak (type?) so I suppose that doesn't really count....

[themightymrp]

We have a Windows 2000 workstation with 256Mb in regular use by the schools librarian, she only needs the web interface access to the Oliver server and the serial port driver for the barcode scanner

[tech_guy]

Ha, we have lots of machines that are over ten years old still in daily use. Some of them are held together with superglue.

[Hightower]

We have a couple of old Elonex's (the one's famous for turning into a flaming fireball) kicking about still. Other then that, our old machine would probably be server 2, which is about 7 years old now.

[SimpleSi]

Ha, we have lots of machines that are over ten years old still in daily use.

 

Are you sure they are being used?

 

The horse ahead at the moment are Domino and themightymrp

 

Si

[simpsonj]

I'm sure if I looked I could find a Dell Inspiron laptop still running somewhere, thankfully upgraded to Windows XP, although built for Windows 2000...

[gl3nnym]

Our main SIMS server is a machine that was purchased and installed in 2002... Do I win?

[jedmondson]

Im think my old work had some laptops that where that old.

[dhicks]

Anyone still running anything as old?

 

I have an original model RM Tablet PC - was that released in 2002, making it 9 years old this year?

 

And I mean regular use

 

Yep - used daily, I'm typing this on it now. It runs Windows XP Tablet Edition, with all up-to-date service packs and so on, and I've added another 512MB of RAM and swapped the original harddrive for an SSD. It also has a new battery and a wireless-n USB adaptor. The screen resolution and device size / weight is around the same as an iPad, plus it runs Flash.

[tech_guy]

Are you sure they are being used?

 

The horse ahead at the moment are Domino and themightymrp

 

Si

 

Come along and have a look - the caretakers are using a Centerprise PC that is nearly 15 years old. We have Dell GX150s in use in classrooms that are around 10 years old, and we have Toshiba S1400-153E laptops in use across the school by various staff members that are nearly ten years old.

[SimpleSi]

OK you win

 

Si

[tech_guy]

This is the 21st century isn't it? I have to keep reminding myself because sometimes it feels like 1999 - the year I started here - you walk around and loads of things are still the same. We have hubs and switches that were here before I started as well. Now I'm depressed. I'm going round the corner to the garage to binge on chocolate.

[3s-gtech]

Just recently retired a number of SEN machines running Thunderbird Athlon processors with 512MB of RAM - they were ten years old. The quickest are being repurposed as standalones with beefier graphics cards in. In regular use, our oldest are my secondary DCs (10 years old now, Dell 2550 heavily upgraded) and our staff desktops (8 years old but heavily upgraded).

[sonofsanta]

Not anymore, thank god - I got to replace loads of machines this last summer. And some of them that were, yes, in regular classroom use (and for video editing no less ) and were older than the girls themselves. 800MHz Celerons with 192mb RAM, floppy drive, no optical drive, 15" CRT sat on top of them.

 

Now replaced with Core i3's and 22" 1080p monitors, which is a bit of an improvement

[AceDaz]

I've got a Satellite of that age in regular use today (for my neice) . Popped in a wireless PC card, installed Slax Linux to the hard disk using the installer module and it runs super fast! The old Toshes were built really well.

 

Yeah I use mine with Linux too. Mostly for Server Monitoring. But I am considering Ubuntu to lend out to Students

[SYNACK]

It died at the end of last year but I pulled out a 533mhz p3 running XP with 128MB of RAM that was the secondary PC in a classroom usd every day apparently. It had been a server so had an hd just big enough.

 

It's death was just before I got there, if I had seen it when it was 'going' I would have removed it anyway for wasting everyones time.

[pete]

A T23 with a 1.13Ghz P3 and 384M ram running Crunchbang is my morning coffee/email/recipe browsing machine that lives in the kitchen. Gets used every day.

[bondbill2k2]

Threw out some Viglan branded computers with 98 license stickers on them this summer, they hadn't been in use just in storage. ALso an Ergo laptop purchased in 2002, never heared of them myself.

 

Looking at our records or scrapped machines oh how i'd love a high spec Viglen Contender (sounds a terrible name, it can try to compete but fail) Celeron 1.7GHz, 225mb ram, 8GB HDD.

 

Our oldest machines still in use about once a week is in our Gym used for the rowing machine software purchased 2003, replaced the CRT on it during the summer just gone, good as new and a teacher laptop Ergo Mercury P3

Edited September 20, 2011 by bondbill2k2

[newpersn]

Dell 170L P4 running at 2.8Ghz with 2GB Ram Running Server 2008 Sophos and Update Service.... How its still going.. i dont know :/

[featured_spectre]

My old place had a server running NT 3.51 and was running some legacy finance package! they had it for 2 months before NT 4.0 came out, but never upgraded it...so that is about 16 years old now and to my knowledge only ever went down when there was a power outage, otherwise it was solid as a rock. Never ever had an issue with it, ever...and it was happy running a 10mb NIC and seemed to run smoothly with 2 people connecting to it.

 

*edit*

 

The machines specs are as follows

 

32mb RAM

200mb HDD

486 CPU

VGA GFX

Edited September 20, 2011 by featured_spectre

[Michael]

During Easter, I decommissioned a Windows 2000 SP4 member server running an 800MHz Pentium 3 with 512MB. I'd estimate this was approx 10 years old. It came in a huge tower I named 'the fridge'.

 

The Pentium 3 800MHz was out in 1999 according to Wikipedia, so I think I'm pretty much spot on