Yesss!!! they live again!

Wed Mar 24, 2004 8:27 am by H.Q. Victor

Found an old, PII 300mhz Packard bell, 32mb ram, ATI Rage (old) 32mb, lucent modem. And a Gateway Monitor. And an old keyboard with half the letters wore off. Makes fun for typing. Slow as molasses but running 32bit video 800x600 3gig hard drive and *Ducks thwackers* ME. its all I had to get it up and running with. Too small a harddrive for XP.

Anyone else running anything as old or older?

Michael "Finalday"
In Memory Of WLB

Edited by - Finalday on 3/24/2004 10:22:45 AM

Edited by - Finalday on 3/28/2004 5:13:35 PM

Edited by - Finalday on 3/29/2004 3:20:05 AM

Wed Mar 24, 2004 8:32 am by We Made It!

tweak that setup sensibly and if the kit is still sound, it'll still perform reasonably well, at least for Windoze. Will be fonk for games, but should still provide decent service

Wed Mar 24, 2004 8:34 am by freighter fighter

heh, i got something older, spectrum zx81 in the attic

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams

Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:30 am by ~Corsair#01~

I gotta ten year old typewriter- does that count?

Corsair likes to refer to himself in the 3rd person.

Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:57 am by Heltak

I have an Apple II

Wed Mar 24, 2004 10:19 am by H.Q. Victor

Type wroters, no, computers, yes. I was wondering about the oldest running computers that anyone is using even if it is just a backup computer. A little aged, like dinasours heehee.

Michael "Finalday"
In Memory Of WLB

Wed Mar 24, 2004 10:31 am by We Made It!

I have an Olivetti 286 with 1mb (4x256kb) 30pin SIMM and a 128k Trident vga card sat right by me now.

I also use a 386SX-20 with 4mb fpm and a 486DX4-100 with 16mb EDO hanging around for DOS games like Doom, Descent and Terminal Velocity, and some other old stuff I can't bear to part with. WC however I have as KS, but obv Priv, Priv2, and Crusader still need good ol' DOS to run; regardless of DOS emulators and whatever people might say, these games still work best in true DOS.

Wed Mar 24, 2004 4:06 pm by H.Q. Victor

Had to leave a blank desktop back ground and changed virtual Mem to min-128mg and max 256 mg. A little faster, though slow on line, esppesially with firefox. Ie was ok. Version 5.50 Got the ATI drivers through MS update and was able to ste res a lot higher than the 640 it had. Running 800x600 with 32 bit Picture is pretty sharp now. It will go to 1024x768 but slows a bit more. Not bad for a pterodactyl

Michael "Finalday"
In Memory Of WLB

Wed Mar 24, 2004 7:06 pm by Esquilax

A P2? Is that all? I have an AMD K5-133, and I can get my hands on a 486 DX2-66 in ten minutes!

Thu Mar 25, 2004 12:30 am by mustang

Forsooth! Ye olde computer hath return'th from yon storage!

I gotta whole bunch of NEC 386's in storage, they're great for the annual 'puter toss.

Thu Mar 25, 2004 1:54 am by kimk

i have .. oh dang.. its a tower one, bout two times taller than the one i use now, 800mb HDD space, jeez, i don't know the rest. the max it can do is win 3.1

but i remember i had some great times on the thing. family fun

Thu Mar 25, 2004 1:54 am by We Made It!

FD if you use the system applet>performance, if you change it to Network Server and set to drive-caching, that tweaks another 15% or so out of it, if you haven't done it already. Nice touch with the virtual mem, did you do that through the applet or did you edit vcache in the .ini files?

Thu Mar 25, 2004 3:15 am by H.Q. Victor

Set it through CP/system/preformance. Never done any network settings, so don't know if I'll try that. With omly 3gigs hard drive, not too much use for this one.

Michael "Finalday"
In Memory Of WLB

Edited by - Finalday on 3/25/2004 3:15:17 AM

Thu Mar 25, 2004 3:40 am by gromit

I run a 486, 1Gb Hard Drive, 8Mb RAM, 28.8 Modem for "testing purposes" - I also have (to the dismay of my girlfriend), a Vic20, BBC B, Amstrad CPC464, Munchman console, Astro Wars console. and my most prized "electronic" possession....

a fully boxed and working Big Trak

Thu Mar 25, 2004 4:00 am by mustang

Fantastic Grom, don't forget the Vic20 can also double as a chopping board for your vegetables.

Seriously though, you've almost got a museum worthy collection of electronic gadgetry there.

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