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I don't mean retro stuff, or anything like that, I mean on your main desktop computer. Mine is my monitor. it's a 19" iiyama Vision Master 450. I'm pretty sure I got it before my eldest son was born. Which would make it 11 years old or so.

Can anyone beat that?

Malc

I can't beat that - the keyboard and mouse I used to use when DJing are about 8 years old now. The letters on the keys have worn off, and there are huge patches of wear on the mouse buttons - it looks hardcore

I don't have a main desktop computer.

Then you did not have to post

I think my monitor is the olderst on my main PC.

My Linux is a lot older, and I have a 17" crt in the loft if that counts

I only have laptops at home, so they're pretty much fixed to one build date.

Then you didn't have to post.

I have a Macbook Pro that's tuning into my main machine, but my old workhorse G4 'Quicksilver' Tower has been bulletproof since 2001. The 'borrowed' memory and extra HDs could possibly pre date 2001.

I have a 'working' one of these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_3400c It was the ZOMGO back in 1997. Can run StarCraft but the track pad is slightly borked. Anyone got an ADB mouse?

My iBook is my 'modern' computer. My Linux desktop is so old that it's probably easier to work out the newest thing. Which I guess would be it's 7 year old DVD drive. I bought it 8 years ago...

It's a bit worrying how much better my games machine is than my machine for work...

My Boston speakers from circa. 1999 packed up on me last month.

Well I have a 8-year old Intellimouse at home and I think the HDD I use as a backup for drivers and such is and old 20gb from the olden days. Ooh the boot drive is in a 5.25 to 3.5 inch convertor caddy. That's from 1997.

I still have a fully working PC based around a AMD K2 450 cpu. It's bulletproof and runs XP when the memory slots are filled up to 256mb of SDRAM.

I know, mate, I know. There should be no apostrophe in that 'its'.

Umm, I lose. Imac from 2007. The oldest peripheral is probably my Canoscan, which must be from about 2003.

Actually, wait, I stuck a "designed for Windows95" sticker from an old laptop on the side of it. To be ironic or something.

No irony is the 'Vista Capable' stickers on my lab pcs that choke their way into XP.

It's like putting a 'Sex Capable' sticker on a grossly overweight leper with stabby syndrome. Capable? Yes. Likely? No.

Well, I still have my old 286, but I haven't switched it on for about ten years so I don't know if it works. Doughty workhorse that it was, with 640kb RAM and its beast of a 1.9MB hard drive.

It has to work for it to win right Malc?

My Creative Inspire 5.1 speakers are probably the oldest — I think they're about six years old now. Aside from that, I don't think anything in my computer is older than three years now.

Isn't the picture shite?

Keyboard and mouse must be at least 8 years old. The mouse mat is from the old Netcom ISP and I haven't been with them since I switched to broadband.

Speakers must be 6 years old. Monitor about 4.

My mum's keyboard is from the first PC we ever owned, so '94 or so. Does that win?

unless you use it broken, then yes.

Malc

No, it's actually pretty good. I was given (through work) a 19" gateway monitor a few years back, and even about 5/6 years old it was better than that new. It's got a better picture than my current work monitor (brimax 17" flat screen jobbie) which is about 18 months old.

I paid about £600 for it, which was loads at the time, but it's lasted really well. It does 1600X1200 at 60hz and 1280 by 1024 at 80Hz.

I love it. I just wish it wasn't essentially a cube, and that it was a WS. When I replace it, it will be with one of these ( http://www.iiyama.com/en_GB/Product/cat ... roduct/162 )

Malc

Pretty much so far I think.

Malc

I have a YS magazine from 1987. 'Psycho Pig UXB' on the cover. That doesn't count does it?

Where is Chinny, he must have some old tech!

My speakers are big Sony jobbies that must be at LEAST 10 years old. I bought them second hand in 1999 I reckon. They still work and still sound good enough to not warrant replacing them!

Actually... The plug board I use on the floor.. that must be from the 80s at least! My dad used to use it years ago!

Does that count? And can I claim my £5?

Oh yeah, my laptop's plugged into a 4-way adaptor from about 1985.

Pssht. The wall containing the wall socket that my laptop is plugged into is from 1930-something.

No, sorry.

Malc

The thing attached to the end of my mouse is 38 years old.

Replace it immediately.

The Earth that my PC resides in must be at least... well... a couple of hundred years old at least! It might even be thousands... who knows?!?!

The universe that *BLAM*

I thought plugs sockets and trailing leads are classed as infrastucture not hardware...


<goes back to his desk and reads reports on infrastructure>

More accurate = less funny. Did you not read the memo?

might be under my stack of infrastucture reports I am reviewing.. can life get any more rock and roll..



oooh there goes the milf again..

I have a working Mac classic. Fuck knows how old it is now, I'd hazard a guess at about 1990. Don't use it for anything mind, but it still works.

My CD-ROM was from my first PC which I got in 1996.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/grim/2213617579/

My keyboard is seven years old.

I have tried to replace it but have never found anything as useful (has lots of extra buttons) or comfortable to use so I have always returned. Its a zippy keyboard and it has on screen display for volume and the like but I can't get it to work on Vista.

I just got my new Alienware so everything else is pretty new.

What do you need extra buttons for? An extra set of alphabet keys in lower case maybe?

Big arrows that map to the 'WASD' keys, perhaps?

My Commodore +4 had big arrows!

This keyboard has a load of keys I don't use already. The entire numeric keypad.. the pause/break button and scroll lock.. and the F keys.. Alt Gr.. The windows button and another button to the right of the keyboard.. Caps lock...

in daily use, just my imac from2003, which came with everything..

I rarely use the function keys with the exception of F5.

/Designs a keyboard with only one large button marked "Wrong", with a recessed, non-slip surface.

I have a back and forward button to the left and cut,paste,copy and mark.

Along the top I have Word,Excel,Power Point, Calendar,My computer,Calculator,Log Off and then Back,Forward,Stop,WWW,Email,Favorites,Refresh and Search

Top Right I have Media Controls. Forward, Back etc.

I used to have a keyboard with all that on it. I didn't realise anyone actually used them, though.

Well I don't use the ones along the top but the side ones are well worn.

The media controls are particularly useful, I couldn't live without them.

My work keyboard has load of extra keys. I only ever use the calculator key. I don't see the point of dedicated 'back' keys when backspace does the same job.