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'Hamas' Jenkins 06:43 PM 10-09-2019
I've been reading about the history of the development of the Internet lately and it got me to thinking about refrigerator-sized computers of the late '60s, mainframes, and even the first PCs connecting to nascent networks.

It led me to consider buying an ancient PC just to mess around with it, and in that regard, I wondered who among us has the oldest working machine and what they use it for.
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sedated 06:33 PM 10-10-2019
I moved a month ago and threw away a Dell I got right out of college in 2004. It worked just well enough to use remote desktop for my work computer, so I actuualy did get use out of it all the way until the end.
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Fishpicker 08:22 AM 10-11-2019
Originally Posted by Fishpicker:
IBM 286

let me fire this bad boy up

I'm going to have to hook up a VGA monitor
computer runs and I didnt get a beep code. the monitor is toast though
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BigBeauford 09:40 AM 10-11-2019
I still have this somewhere.


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Dartgod 12:42 PM 10-11-2019
Originally Posted by Bowser:
I'm ~90% sure I have a Commodore 64 packed away somewhere that "should" still work. Not sure what it would work for, but still.
Same here
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underEJ 01:05 PM 10-11-2019
It is only fifteen years old or so, but it is a unique computer that didn't really catch on, but I used it daily for 5 years until the surface pro came out and I still use it on occasion if I have a legacy file that needs some old tool or driver. This was a fully functioning desktop operating system in a handheld computer with a stylus touch screen and a thumb operated keyboard way before most companies were thinking about any of those things.


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RockChalk 01:30 PM 10-11-2019
Originally Posted by BigBeauford:
I still have this somewhere.

Oh man...I had one of those as a kid. Used to play Hangman on that bad boy, haha
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banecat 02:52 PM 10-11-2019
I think that I still have an old emachine that has vista on it. Or would that just be the worst computer on here?
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Deberg_1990 05:12 PM 10-11-2019
Does a Nintendo 8 bit system count?
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hometeam 06:42 PM 10-11-2019
I have a functional TI99.

Or it was functional when i put in storage in my garage a few years back. Scored 2 of them and a bunch of games from my old science teacher when i was about 13 years old. Still have it.

Favorite game? MASH~
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Fish 10:12 PM 10-11-2019
Ohh, man I could probably pull some crazy shit out of storage.....
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Monkey God 10:45 PM 10-11-2019
I still have my Commodore 64.
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BWillie 09:00 AM 10-12-2019
Man, do you remember looking at porn in 1999? Terrible. A jerk here a jerk there. Very unsatisfying. Thanks Technology!
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Buehler445 03:09 PM 10-12-2019
Originally Posted by BWillie:
Man, do you remember looking at porn in 1999? Terrible. A jerk here a jerk there. Very unsatisfying. Thanks Technology!
I was a teenager in 99. A JCPenny catalog could get me off if need be
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patteeu 04:41 PM 10-12-2019
I still have the Macintosh SE FDHD I bought in 1989 or so. I fired it up for the first time in over 25 years a month or two ago and it still works, although I found that my ADB mouse is jacked up. That's a real shocker, haha. It's probably just hopelessly filled with lint.

It was the first computer I bought new. Before that, I bought a used Commodore 64 from Neil Armstrong's son, Rick, back when he was a dolphin trainer whose dolphins performed at Worlds of Fun in the summers.


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scho63 05:20 PM 10-12-2019
I'm sure if he was still here, Pooper Barrett would tell everyone he still had the original first ever built computer in his garage.
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