Post the oldest crappy computer you have that still turns on.

[Light-Force]

Well for me its a Packard Bell 486SX, ooo the speed, with 16 Megs of NP ram, and get this a 2400 baud modem, and... 1 meg video card!! with a 340 mb hd

lol what a pice

[Shiori]

Pentium 90 desktop, with a monitor circa 1990, 16MB ram, a Tseng 1MB video card, an ESS ISA sound card, and a 2X (!) CDROM.

[edit] oh, and a 1gig HDD that's half-full of bad sectors.

[Light-Force]

lol oh yeah i forgot my 2x cd rom aswell!! woot woot and some basic sound, lol ahh its funny, compared to my system below (in my sig)

heh how did we manage

[Xenomorph]

I got 286sx(not sure of sx) with 4 mb ram and 40mb Harddisk...
But it doesen't work anymore 'cause I flamed the computer with gasoline and trowed the monitor (B&W) off the cliff!!!
Seriously!

[Shiori]

Sounds just like the frustrated guy in TechTV ads.

pentium 75...dont use it anymore though.

[Light-Force]

comon samor, post the crappy details of it, its good for a laugh

[Xenomorph]

Oh, I had also other 286, I transported it under my shirt from my friend with motorcycle (not actually "motorcycle") and ripped the harddrive from it to my older computer 486. Then I burned the 286 too and dumped the AC/DC power regulator(?) to my neigbours mailbox! And couple months after I accidently broke my TV when I kicked it (duh!). It worked fine couple seconds and always after that the screen went black and there was ugly buzzing sound (Do I smell smoke?) Then I writed "Merry XMAS" and "clever" comments to paper and putted that on screen. Then I moved it to my neighbours door and ringed door bell and RUNNED! I think they still don't know who did it...

[SimonMallion]

My Sinclair ZX81: no colour, no sound, 1K memory (including 768bytes of video RAM), Tape loading support (1500 baud), TV Out (hehheh :P). Oh, did you mean PC, my crappiest PC is a 386 with Sega MasterSystem support (yep it takes the cartridges).

[Xeven]

err i still have my x286 that only has a 5 1/4 floppy! :eek:

Ok, crappy details:

*P75 from Siemens Nixdorf, using it's fourth monitor or so (they happened to be bad models)

*Unknown MOBO, but surprisingly nothing was integrated.

*originally a Siemens/tsenglabs pci videocard with 1 MB, later replaced with a Diamond stealth 2500 2MB videocard ...I remember trying to upgrade 2 times before but for some reason the tseng labs always outperformed newer (4MB) cards on the 2D department. The 2MB was inserted much later otherwise the stupid thing couldnt run at 800x600 16-bit (ok, it DID work with scitech display doctor but that made a slow computer even slower ) Oh yeah, for a short while it had a 3dfx voodoo1 card. It could barely handle it though.

*Sound Blaster 16 (actually a Siemens-Creative SB16 or something)

*540 MB harddisk....and to think of it I still used that in 1999, back then 540MB already was too small.

*4X CD-Rom drive from Sony, not as good anymore as it used to be though.


I've used it for a while as a server but my ISP effectively made that uninteresting by limiting upload speeds to 15kb/sec and making downstream go to almost 0 when you upload something. Even sending emails takes forever now, and I cant even send big (5MB or larger) attachments anymore...so much for broadband internet. Unfortunately I dont have an alternative. The other reason to put it in a closet was the fact it was just standing there, taking too much room. As for the games I used to play on it: I can still play One Must Fall 2097 on my p3 800 and can finally live with the fact that some old dos games might not work anymore (took me quite some time to get over that ).

1999 was the last year it was my main computer. At that time I had a voodoo1 in it. On some games the computer just crashed, because a p75 was the absolute minimum for a voodoo card. I ran games like Tomb Raider 2, Screamer 2,Screamer Rally, NFS2SE and F1 Racing Simulation with it...preferrably the time attack modes, since that was still a somewhat exceptable framerate (only 1 car ). Most heavy games I ever ran on it that were somewhat playable were NFS3 and Tomb Raider 3. NFS3 actually ran faster than the third tomb raider game. Oh yeah, at that time I found 320x200 and 13fps very acceptable... 3dfx was amazing because it did 512x384 or 640x480!

Oh yeah, as you can imagine with a 540mb harddisk, I could only install 1 or 2 games at a time...reinstalled a lot too...once every week or so

How's that for crappy details?

[Xenomorph]

Heh! Nice details! Nowadays it's needed over 1 gb for a single game...

yeah, but I have a 60gig HD now
(the 15gig I had was not enough afterall )

yeah, but I have a 60gig HD now
(the 15gig was not enough afterall )

[Xenomorph]

...Hmm... double post... A Bug? Anyway, I have 6.4 gb HardDisk and it isn't enough! New one costs a fortune and the used ones that is cheap are too small or then they got bad sectors... Can you send me that 15gb hardDisk ? seems like you don't need it anymore...

actually I gave it to somebody in exchange for a 6gb harddisk (in case I wanted to put that in the p75, because that computer cant handle 15gb harddisks)...but as mentioned before, the p75 is stored away and I cant be arsed to put that HD in it. That voodoo1 card is still somewhere doing nothing as well :P


weird double post...I posted, the forum didnt react, then I edited the post slightly posted again, but the post I made first appeared AFTER that.
weird.

[Xenomorph]

There can't be never too much harddisk space, if I could get something like 80gb I could but almost all of my games to HD
and play them with daemon tools, no more disc swapping
At this time I can keep 1-3 games on HD...

speaking of which, my current cd-reader seems awfully bad at working with epsxe...time to try out different plugins, I guess....

[Xenomorph]

Just make image with CloneCD and use Daemon Tools
Or use Build-In ISO support (I don't think that works very good)

[Jyzero]

Here's my oldest one:

486SX 25 Mhz
8 mb ram
160 mb hd
Trident TVGA card with 1mb vram
ET4000 VGA card with 0 kb vram (stuck with the motherboard, i transfered it's vram to the tvga, but it still displayed text!)
ESS soundcard (very good one. I would plug it into my current pc if it was'nt ISA)

I used it with DJGPP (1 day to compile Allegro), QuickBasic, No$gmb (I'm one of few that bought it) and old games like Pinball Fantasy