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What is your oldest functioning computer?
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I started with a apple II in college, but the oldest thing I have now is a performa 610. It works, but I don't use it. Now using intel macs.
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My stupid iPhone game: Nesen Probe, it's rather old, annoying and pointless, but it's free.
Was free. Now it's gone. Never to be seen again.
Off to join its brother and sister apps that could not
keep up with the ever updating iOS. RIP Nesen Probe.
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Mac 512k,
I'm on the hunt for a decent mac128k. 
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That I regularly use? iBook G4. I don't have room in my dorm for a bunch of crappy computers. I do have a G4/400 at work acting as a server, but that's about to get replaced by a dual 1GHz G4.
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My brain...although the memory is a bit low, the CPU still works.
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Clinically Insane
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An Atari STacy 4/40.
Still in use as it's a rock solid sequencer.
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Between heaven and hell
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I started with an Apple II+ and currently still have a Apple IIe. Wizardry 1-4 and Ultima 4-5 rock!
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Yes, I know I could buy a PC, but why?
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2002
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PowerBook Duo 2300c
My 2yr old uses it to play games.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Union County, NJ
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OMG a STacy.
My oldest is an Atari 800.
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Sep 2001
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I like chicken
I like liver
Meow Mix, Meow Mix
Please de-liv-er
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either the A3000 or the macintosh lc475s
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PowerBook G4. I only keep one computer at a time.
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My family's first mac, a powermac 7100/66, is still operational and set up on my desk at home but I don't think it is used regularly.
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AT&T iPhone 5S and 6; 13" MBP; MDD G4.
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That brings up a question: do these computers actually get used, or are they ornamental?
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Originally Posted by kick52 
either the A3000 or the macintosh lc475s
Is that an Acorn? I had an A440 - wonderful machine!
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Oldest functioning computer in my house is an old AMD k6-2 450Mhz. It's my parents computer
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Clinically Insane
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Add me to the Macintosh 512K club.
At least, I assume it still works. It did last time I pulled it out of storage.
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Oldest computer we have in the house is a 733mhz P3 Packard Bell. I have no idea how old it exactly is. It's my dad's typewriter/email machine. It's going to be replaced by a Vista laptop soon tough. I'm not even trying to get him to buy an Apple. He stills thinks they are "incompatible". He only uses Word, Excel and email.
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Originally Posted by Goldfinger
Oldest computer we have in the house is a 733mhz P3 Packard Bell. I have no idea how old it exactly is. It's my dad's typewriter/email machine. It's going to be replaced by a Vista laptop soon tough. I'm not even trying to get him to buy an Apple. He stills thinks they are "incompatible". He only uses Word, Excel and email.
So, buy him a macbook and install vista on it. Best of both worlds.
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Originally Posted by peeb
Is that an Acorn? I had an A440 - wonderful machine!
Amiga.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
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Atari 520 STfm
It still works. But these days I tend to fire up NoSTalgia or Hatari.
Still trying to set up Aranym...
There could also be an Amstrad PCW 9512 in the loft.
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Originally Posted by kmkkid
So, buy him a macbook and install vista on it. Best of both worlds.
More like best of one world, tolerable of the other. 
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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iMac rev. A
My daughter is about to play a couple "games" (learning software) on it in a couple minutes.
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
More like best of one world, tolerable of the other.
I was originally going to post that, but decided against it 
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Clinically Insane
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Originally Posted by elrah
Atari 520 STfm
It still works. But these days I tend to fire up NoSTalgia or Hatari.
Still trying to set up Aranym...
There could also be an Amstrad PCW 9512 in the loft.
I loved my STs (I had a 520 and a 1040) but those F keys were terribly annoying. What would you use an ST for nowadays anyway? Games?
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Originally Posted by mac128k-1984
Mac 512k,
I'm on the hunt for a decent mac128k.
I've got a working 128k, complete with modem and imagewriter dot matrix printer...
still runs frogger just fine.
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A few months back I donated an iMac Rev. A, and recycled an SE/30.
So now I guess the oldest is a 17" iMac G4.
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Clinically Insane
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My mother's Osborne. My Quadra 650 is my oldest Mac because my LC is in the landfill. 
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Originally Posted by kmkkid
So, buy him a macbook and install vista on it. Best of both worlds.
Oh, I sure did think about that. But he doesn't want one. And no Dell either, that's a relief.
And tbh I think it's a bit of a waste. It would make the Macbook very expensive compared to a pc with the same specs (macbook + Vista license + Office 2007).
Ah well, I'm going too far off topic here.
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
Amiga.
no, Acorn.
I also have an A4000, and I did buy a RISC PC, but it blew up 3 days after I got it.
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Posting Junkie
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My oldest functioning computer is a RadioShack TRS-80 Color II.
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Posting Junkie
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Originally Posted by kmkkid
So, buy him a macbook and install vista on it. Best of both worlds.
Unless he actually wants to right-click...
I really with my MacBook had two mouse buttons. (Well, three. I'd dual-boot Linux rather than Windows, but using Linux with a single-button mouse blows.)
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haha, Acron. I remember them from school.
All I knew how to do was start and play lemmins.
Ah, good times. I had no idea 5 years later I would seriously get into computers, well Macs anyway.
-MM-
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Oldest functioning computer?
Apple //c, which is at my parents' house.
The oldest functioning computer actually in my house is a 20 year old Apple IIgs.
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Clinically Insane
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Originally Posted by nonhuman
Unless he actually wants to right-click...
I really with my MacBook had two mouse buttons. (Well, three. I'd dual-boot Linux rather than Windows, but using Linux with a single-button mouse blows.)
Doesn't the MacBook have a feature where two-fingered tapping = right-click?
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Originally Posted by Ganesha
Vic 20
I also have a Vic 20.
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Posting Junkie
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Originally Posted by Chuckit
Doesn't the MacBook have a feature where two-fingered tapping = right-click?
In OS X, but does it work in Windows? I'm pretty sure it doesn't in Linux (at least it didn't last time I looked).
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Originally Posted by MM-o4
haha, Acron. I remember them from school.
All I knew how to do was start and play lemmins.
Ah, good times. I had no idea 5 years later I would seriously get into computers, well Macs anyway.
-MM-
Acorn was so far ahead of it's time. It's interface was very Mac-like, before Macs were.
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Clinically Insane
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Originally Posted by nonhuman
In OS X, but does it work in Windows? I'm pretty sure it doesn't in Linux (at least it didn't last time I looked).
I thought Apple's Boot Camp drivers made it work, but I don't have a MacBook, so maybe I've been listening to tall tales.
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Clinically Insane
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Originally Posted by peeb
Acorn was so far ahead of it's time. It's interface was very Mac-like, before Macs were.
I had never heard of the RiscOS until today. It did look rather impressive, although I think it's unfair to claim it was "Mac-like before Macs were." The Mac has always been the definition of "Mac-like" and it came out in 1984. RiscOS first debuted in 1987.
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Power Mac G4 Digital Audio
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Originally Posted by starman
I loved my STs (I had a 520 and a 1040) but those F keys were terribly annoying. What would you use an ST for nowadays anyway? Games?
A few of my friends owned 520s and 1040s. They were awesome. I thought it was cool (still do) that the computer and keyboard were combined in such a small size and still cool looking.
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Originally Posted by Chuckit
I thought Apple's Boot Camp drivers made it work, but I don't have a MacBook, so maybe I've been listening to tall tales.
I suppose I could dig up my XP disc and find out, but then I'd have to deal with partitioning my hard drive and installing windows. Not to mention using Windows.
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I have a 1999 vintage "Quantex" P2-300 laptop that's running just fine today, thank you very much. It's amazing, since this guy traveled all over the world with me, plus his age and definite "PC-ness," but there it is.
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Originally Posted by Jawbone54
That brings up a question: do these computers actually get used, or are they ornamental?
I used to use the 7100 to write papers for school when the beige G3 was being used by my family. The G3 had an external modem and the 7100 had nothing so there wasn't much to be distracted by.
Until 2-3 years ago the X10 lights in my house were controlled by an old zenith 286 laptop. That was the first computer I ever used.
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AT&T iPhone 5S and 6; 13" MBP; MDD G4.
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Right now, it's an old Sony VAIO from the Pentium !!! days, but that's my mom's computer.
Of MY computers, the oldest is a iBook G4. But if I can find a functioning iBook clamshell with FireWire....
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MacBook Core 2 Duo 2.16 (Black)
iPod classic 160GB
iPhone 8GB
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iMac DV 450mhz G3 (the 2nd generation iMac with Firewire and no fans circa 1999 or early 2000). Still used daily by my girlfriend's 15yr old for chatting, surfing, iTunes, even Keynote on occasion. Runs 10.4 pretty well for only having 384mb ram.
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Apple ][ Plus. I think it's from 1978 or 1979; I took a look at the motherboard a few years back, and I remember something being magic-markered on it. Last time I checked, it still fired up fine, although I have no idea how to use it.
Our real estate agent found it in some basement and gave it to me when he was selling my parents' house some years back. Right now it's just sitting in my old room in Toronto. No idea what I'll ever do with it.
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Mankind's only chance is to harness the power of stupid.
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Mac Classic II. Also have a Color Classic II with a processor upgrade.
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