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Who's on the most obsolete system?

post #1 of 59
9/8/06 at 5:58am
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Who is CURRENTLY using a god awful machine and what have you done to tweak it?

I thought i had the worse but i forget what thread but someone was typing from a system which might be worse!

My specs

Dell C600
700mhz Pentium 3
256megs of ram
10 Gig HD

Soon as i download something i have to burn it to CD! LOL! Almost 8 Gigs is dedicated to system programs! LOL!! For years i kept making excuses to my friends about how my pc was still good as long as i keep defraging and using various tweaking utilities.

My last system was an Ibm think pad
166mhz pentium 1
128 megs of ram
2 gig HD

I pushed that poor think so far that it just died! I think if it was still powering up i probably would have tried to squeeze a couple more years out of it!
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post #2 of 59
9/8/06 at 8:29am
My old laptop that i just gave to my buddy was:

Gateway Solo 2550
450 Mhz PIII
64mb RAM
4 gig HDD

My current (seems old now) laptop is:

Asus S5n (this is my main computer, since i am in class all the time)
1.5 Ghz P-M
768 MB Ram
80 Gig 5400 RPM HDD

And

Compaq nc400 (This is my work system, has a nice docking port)
700 Mhz PIII
512 MB Ram
10 Gig HDD
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post #3 of 59
9/8/06 at 10:37am
Old Dell Latitude CP

233MHz Processor
64MB RAM
2.1GB HDD
NeoMagicGraph 2MB Video Card.

And, oh yes, the greatest thing of all, dual boot Windows 95 and 3.1
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post #4 of 59
9/8/06 at 1:15pm
Gawd, still using a 5 year old OS here. Windows XP--how decrepit can you get?
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post #5 of 59
9/8/06 at 1:26pm
Maybe you should re-read the last line of my other post
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post #6 of 59
9/8/06 at 3:04pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by TwilightVampire
Maybe you should re-read the last line of my other post


im confused....
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post #7 of 59
9/8/06 at 3:11pm
I've got a tecra 8100 (P3 600MHz, 256mb ram, 12GB) on my dsk that I still use quite regularly when I have a lot of data to go through. I just set up a script and let it run overnight if need be.

Here at my work we have a inspiron 3700 (P2 or 3 ~400MHz, 128mb, 6GB) that is a loaner machine to students and an old 486 desktop that is basically a data logger for a meterological station and the phone system. It runs windows 3.1 and is about to get upraded to a flyin 166MHz P1 w/ windows 2k.
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post #8 of 59
9/8/06 at 4:34pm
OLD Compaq

133 Mhz Pentium
16MB RAM
1.2 GB HDD (barely works now)
CD Drive (no longer works)

Runs debian linux like a king . Of course, it's mostly in console mode.

Regards,

zakaluka2.
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post #9 of 59
9/8/06 at 6:40pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by zakaluka2
Runs debian linux like a king . Of course, it's mostly in console mode..
KDE on that rig ftw! no kidding, ran a full blown mandrake 9.1 + KDE on: pentium mmx 233, 64mb ram......fun stuff even got HL to run under wine....5fps ftw!
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post #10 of 59
9/8/06 at 6:45pm
zakaluka2 FTW!!!

Quote:
Originally Posted by spotdog14
im confused....

Odious_m complains about using a 5 year old OS, my oldie is using windows 95 and 3.1
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post #11 of 59
9/8/06 at 7:44pm
Fujitsu Point 1600
Win 95
2GB HDD
P1 166 mhz
160 MB RAM
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post #12 of 59
9/8/06 at 8:56pm
A 5yr old Compaq Presario 6000 Desktop

Athalon XP 1800+ @ 1.5ghz
768mb of RAM
60gb 5,400 HDD
Radeon 9600 Pro 256mb
CD Burner
DVD Viewer

its still decent.
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post #13 of 59
9/8/06 at 9:02pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by usapatriot
A 5yr old Compaq Presario 6000 Desktop .... its still decent.
its a rather recent system you got there. my other desktop is a: Pentium 3 866mhz (original) 512mb pc100 ram (upgrade from 128mb) 40gb 7400rpm WD hdd (upgrade from 18gb 5400rpm) nVidia fx5700le 128mb (upgrade from intel i810 shared) 52x CD-RW (upgrade from 24x cd-rw) Arch Linux (upgrade from WinME)
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post #14 of 59
9/8/06 at 11:06pm
Well yeah, before that I had an old Win 95 system.

I think it has a 555mhz cpu, 64mb of ram, and a 30gb HDD.
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post #15 of 59
9/9/06 at 1:31am
Quote:
Originally Posted by TwilightVampire
Maybe you should re-read the last line of my other post

I got your meaning. We have a lot of old but very profitable equipment at my office, powered by all of the Windows OSs (except Bob and Me. )

I just thought it was rather ironic that people were capping on their 4 or 5 year old PCs, while still using a 5 year old OS.
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post #16 of 59
9/9/06 at 2:14am
I WIN.
I really own 1 of these babies.

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post #17 of 59
9/9/06 at 7:31am
My current laptop:

Toshiba 7010CT
PII 300Mhz
30GB HDD (upgraded from 4GB)
160MB RAM
2.5MB non-3D video
800x600 12.1" screen
Windows 98SE with unofficial service pack 2.0

I still use that laptop virtually every day (it probably gets more use than my desktop). It's a little bit slow and obviously it can't be used for gaming, but overall it's still quite adequate.


My old laptop (replaced by the 7010CT 3 years ago) was:

Toshiba T2000SX
Intel 80386SX 16Mhz
40MB HDD
2.5MB of RAM (512kb integrated + 2MB expansion card)
Unknown video chip
Monochrome passive LCD

That still works too. It could run Windows 3.1, but I got rid of that and used DOS because I didn't want to waste HDD space (when there's only a 40MB HDD, losing 4MB because of Windows is quite an issue).
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post #18 of 59
9/9/06 at 11:45am
Wow ^ thats really old, it must be slow as hell.
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post #19 of 59
9/9/06 at 2:45pm
My current oldie laptop:

P4 3.2ghz hyperthreading
ATI Mobility Radeon 9000IGP overclocked from 300mhz to 328mhz (it sucks lol)
702MB RAM
64MB GPU shared memory
3DMark 03 Demo: 444 points (lol)

Toshiba Satellite A75 S1253
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post #20 of 59
9/9/06 at 7:18pm
an old compaq used to reside under my desk
350mhz p ii
11gb hard drive [which was an "upgrade"
cd-dvd tom
8 mb rage
64 mb ram

the day before i sold it, i realized i could clock it to 500mhz...using jumpers
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