[RGray02]

Browsing away on my Powerbook G3, I was wondering who has the oldest Mac here (meaning that it is your primary personal computer)?

It probably is me, I just cant seem to abandon my Powerbook G3/266, its served me so faithfully since late 1998. But the new hardware looks really appealing, and my mac struggles a bit these days.

My PB specs for those interested:

Powerbook G3 266
192 MB RAM
4 Gig HDD
Rage Pro ghetto graphics
hardware Dvd player card and drive (awesome, aside from no support in OSX)
No USB, no firewire, ADB rox
10 baset ethernet (which hurts the most)

[Langdon]

Originally posted by RGray02:
<STRONG>

It probably is me, I just cant seem to abandon my Powerbook G3/266, </STRONG>

No way not even close, I bet there are plenty of people with non PPC Performas and other old Macs as the only machine they have.

[Cellery]

Sometimes when I head home for break and just want to do some light surfing or look something up, I use the trusty old Performa 6400. Not a great computer, but it gets the job done.

Specs:

200 MHz 603e processor
48MB RAM
1 GB HDD
8x CD-ROM
A whopping 1MB VRAM
System 7.5.5 with Kaleidoscope OS8 skin
The old-school beige keyboard, one of the best I've ever used.
Comfy standard issue ADB mouse

[ 03-28-2002: Message edited by: Cellery ]

[IEEE1394]

My "old" machines:

PowerBook 1400cs/166
166MHz 603ev (oh yeah!)
1 GB HD
32 MB RAM
OS 8.1

PowerMac 9500/120 (This is from the days of good PowerMacs. This blew away everything out there. To paraphrase some magazine: "The PowerMac 9500 was so damn fast we had to update our suite of benchmarks to accommodate it.")
120MHz 604
1 x 1GB SCSI HD
1 x 2GB SCSI HD (I remember getting this and thinking that I'd never need another HD)
64 MB RAM
2 MB VRAM (I think)
6 PCI Slots (those were the days)

And a Mac SE, which is half fish tank (I pulled the guts our but couldn't bothered building the tank. )

[KaptainKaya]

Mac LC 520

[gumby5647]

ive surfed (more like crawled) the boards here on a Mac IIci with 20MB RAM, 25Mhz 68030, 32k L2 Cache card and a 28.8kbps modem and AOL 3.0.

it was an interesting experience to say the least.

[finboy]

Originally posted by KaptainKaya:
<STRONG>Mac LC 520 </STRONG>

I'm out.

I've been using my Powerbook 165 to take notes on all week, though (not to cruise the Web). Does that count?

[ 03-28-2002: Message edited by: finboy ]

[daimoni]

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[XPBlows]

Gots me a classic....I want to turn it into one of those classic fish bowls.... but everytime I get the cash...I spend it on video gear...

[ort888]

So no one on these boards is still using an old machine as their primary computer? I am amazed by that. Just a year ago I was using a 6500/250 with 64 megs of RAM as my main machine, isn't anyone out there stuck with an oldie but a goodie?

[::maroma::]

I've got a Mac Portable in my closet, circa '89. Damn thing still works, yet trying to get anything productive done on a 16MHz 68000 with a 1-bit B&W monitor (oh yeah, and a lead acid battery! ) can be a bit tough nowadays. I actually did my first animation on it when it was "new".

Damn..them were the days.

Also have a 6100, 8100 and my main machine is a G4/500 AGP.[/LIST]

[sek929]

Not me really, but my dad uses a Powermac 7200/120 (with the 601e) daily to get his e-mail and peruse e-bay and the sort.

That baby was a workhorse from the day I bought her.

[qyn]

I still use my Mac 512K for midi sequencing (custom midi box and added fan!). Plus I still have around the house my Plus, Performa 637, Performa 6300 (sucker for getting a performa TWICE), B&W G3, and now quicksilver.

Funny thing is, I never loved a mac as much as I loved my first one.

[cpt kangarooski]

There was one thing that could beat your 9500/120, IEEE. My 'first off the truck' 9500/132. Man it was great to work at a computer store. I bought that machine for something like 35% of the retail price.

Unfortunately, I managed to zap the mobo twice, requiring repair work, and the OS was buggy for months. Still, very nice.

Of course, then I replaced it a year later with an 8500/150 that I got for a similarly discounted price, AND sold the 9500/132 back to the store... for $300 more than the 8500, which I used to get more RAM.

Yeah, the store job was sweet.


At any rate as far as old machines, I have a 512KE and a Plus at my parents' house, a G3 B&W here, and an 040 NeXT Cube. (it's for sale if you want it... you don't need to see my identification...)

[ 03-28-2002: Message edited by: cpt kangarooski ]

[Patrick]

Powerbook 180.

That is, if you'd asked me about 4 years ago, I'd have been using it as my primary computer (hooked up to an external monitor, keyboard, and SCSI ethernet device). I did use it to surf the internet, and I even used the built in 14.4 Kbps modem for a while before I got the ethernet hookup. I didn't use it to surf these boards though - found this place about 5 months after I got the iMac I'm currently using. Still have the PB and it works great, though.

But the oldest Mac I've used with internet access was a Mac II, which had been upgraded to a IIfx, hooked up to a 14.4K modem (later 28). Not to surf the web, but to log into the old Prodigy network, complete with that horrible Windows 3 interface (I have no idea why they did that with the Mac version). I remember they had one "photo of the day" which took a few minutes to download completely.

Not to say that it was the oldest one I've used. That one would be a Mac 512K, which was later upgraded to a Plus. And that was back in the mid to late 80s, when few people had even heard the word "internet".