dakar
06-13-2006, 03:17 PM
Reading OHS's post about technology brought this to mind....
What is the oldest architectured 'puter you have still have fully assembled in your pile of 'stuff to save just in case'?
For me it's an 8088 complete in it's original 45lb steel IBM case.
List your junk! :)
Noppid
06-13-2006, 03:34 PM
I have a few in a lead box in case of an EMP impact.
Peggy
06-13-2006, 03:54 PM
I still have a HP pentium, runs fine. It's my backup. I've had that baby since, ummmm... 1997? It was my 3rd puter
Coder1
06-13-2006, 04:06 PM
Compaq Portable 386. The "lunchbox" style, with the orange plasma fold-out monitor, and the attached keyboard that snapped to the side to close the "box". DOS 6.2.
Many years ago, I sold an architectural CAD package, called "DataCad". This machine has the Paradox Database (the version from Ansa, not Borland), Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect 4.1, and DataCad... all on a HardCard 20 "hard disk on a card" installed in the Expansion Card piggyback. The idea was this package would be used by architects to take onto job sites with them.
My sales pitch was to walk into their office, hold this thing up at arm's length parallel to a hard-surfaced floor, drop it... then pick up up, turn it on, and demo the software. I sold a ton of these babies.
I keep meaning to install Linux on this thing and having it be my web server. I bet it would scream.
