What is the oldest/crappiest computer you've ever had

[defender.project42]

Beat a 63mhz toshiba sattelite with 64mb memory.
Broke last year though...
now I've upgraded to 1.6ghz with 256mb memory. Seems a lot faster!

[vv.bbcc19]

P3 1.33 Ghz
128MB RAM
40GB HDD
Floppy drive
CD Read only
Asus Mother Board + Intel Chipset
CRT Monitor-15 inch
Super slow but effective then.

[vekou]

Pentium II with MMX Technology
32MB RAM
2GB HDD (not sure)
Floppy Drive
Standard keyboard & mouse
...and the thing that made it crappy: Windows 95 (Plus)


Seriously, it wasn't crappy and the oldest, back then it was the fastest and the best.
I'm not sure about the actual specs since I didn't care back then.

[essellar]

If you mean the most archeologically fascinating machine, well, I (and other here as well) had machines based on the 8080, Z80, the 6502, and the 6510, all with tiny memory spaces (my smallest was 5KB total -- 4K in ROM and 1KB in RAM) and running at a then-standard 1MHz. For some of us, that would be represented by a hobby board with a hex keypad (if you were lucky -- many had nothing put a panel of toggle switches) for input and a series of LEDs for output. If you wanted more, like a keyboard or alphanumeric output, you needed to build an interface. For others, that machine would have been a Radio Shack TRS-80, a Timex/Sinclair/BBC unit, an Apple ][, a Heathkit/Zenith, or a Commodore PET, VIC-20 or 64. They weren't good for much except gaming (including some great educational games, which is why the Apple ][ family made good inroads in schools) and spreadsheets (VisiCalc made a huge impact in the small-to-medium business space). Oh, and they were great for learning about the technology and programming.

If you mean the most out-of-date machine I ever used compared to the ambient technology, well that would be the 4MB 486SX25 "grey box" I was running while the rest of the world was running Windows 95 on Pentium II MMX technology with 16 or 32 MB and 10x faster clock speeds. Writing code on that machine was no slower than it is today, but compiling it could literally take days. And I do remember doing a ray-traced 3D rendering (800x600 pixels, 24-bit colour with shadows) that took more than two weeks. Computing required a little more patience in those days...

[Darkmere]

TRS-80
Z80 Processor
64K ram
Tape Deck

[lmecmail20]

I have had a sinclair and after that an Olivetti pc1. In those times both of them great machines...but only in those time

[SJ.Wolfe]

It'd have to be the laptop I'm on now. It'd an HP from the '90s. The CD drive keeps popping out (And I mean the drive itself, not the disc tray), programs keep crashing, and there's no space to install anything XD

[ReMiXeDg]

I just got a IBM ThinkPad 600e series. It's a pentuim 2 400mhz processor and 256mb RAM.

I have not installed an OS as I'm trying to figure out witch is the best OS to use on it.

[kinley3]

Man I had a Packard Bell back in the day. I can't remember all the specs, but I do remember that the hard drive was 1 GB. I think that says quite enough

[Darkmere]

lol the smallest Hard Drive I had was a 27 meg lol and that was huge for the time