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QOTW: What is the oldest component in your PC?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 23 October 2015, 16:31

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We often start the usual Friday afternoon discussion by referencing what you, our readers, are rocking in terms of the latest technology. But rather than find out what your latest and greatest PC gizmo is - premium graphics card or swanky monitor - this time we're going to turn the tables somewhat.

There are certain peripherals or components that I like to keep hold of because I follow the old adage of 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it.'

My main PC is fairly up to date but does have a couple of dinosaurs still lurking around, including a DVD ReWriter from 2006. Yup, it's almost 10 years old and still works just fine and dandy when called upon once in a blue moon.

We know there are some hoarders amongst you, so with an eye to a bit of fun, the question of the week is what is the oldest component inside your main PC?

I'm sure you can beat my nine-year-old DVD ReWriter, so over to you, folks.

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Posted by Phage - Fri 23 Oct 2015 16:40
I've got a 10+ year-old HDD in the NAS
Posted by Chadders87 - Fri 23 Oct 2015 16:45
The user?

Mine was built from scratch using new parts 3 years ago… it's still a toddler!
Posted by Ferral - Fri 23 Oct 2015 16:49
I hope you aren't pointing that hoarder comment at me alone :P

I happen to know good ol Saracen has enough old bits to cobble together a kray supercomputer!!

My current system was built 2011 and it got a little refresh last week with a new R9 380, none of it reallly old.

I do have my 1985 Breadbin C64, technically that was a PC of the day, it is sat setup to my right as I scribe this and is used quite often!! It does have a CPU (MOS Technology 6510), VGA it has the VIC II and not forgetting the 3 channel SID for sound and a whopping 64k ram.

But proper PC stuff.

I do have an old setup with a basic Windows 7 setup on it, old Socket 939 board sporting an Athlon 64 single core running at 3.8 Ghz, 2 Gb Ram, a hard drive my dear friend Zak33 sent me, an IDE DVD Writer incase I need to install something from CD, sporting a Leadtek Geforce 7950 with a whopping 512Mb ram, the reason for the setup though is the internal 3.5“ floppy drive.

This machine is primarily used to write the old Atari ST and Archimedes discs with Omniflop, I also have a cable that allows me to connect my Commodore 64 VIC 1541 drive (beige model not the same color as the C64, originally shipped with VIC 20), once this drive is connected I can write the C64 disc images back onto proper 5.25” discs.
Posted by LSG501 - Fri 23 Oct 2015 17:02
I've got a synology ds106j and 2 external caddies with an old pata drives in them, they;'ve got to be 10+ years old…. still going strong (touch wood lol)

In the pc it would again a hard drive.
Posted by sykobee - Fri 23 Oct 2015 17:07
Excluding the Amstrad CPC 464 and Amiga 500, I do have a PC I built in 2008 set up and running, and the other half still has an ancient 2006 Dell crapbox somewhere. I've got older PCs (from 2001), but they're in storage rather than being used.

Mainly I use a 2011 MacBook Pro, and since having a child I haven't had the time to play games, so upgrading systems has fallen by the wayside to be honest.

I suspect the person with a working Commodore PET will win this :-)

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