It's my only home computer. 450mhz g4, purchased in 1999. Still kickin'! Can anyone beat me?
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...but I'm on a 733 G4 PowerMac
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I've got in my room, an iMac G3 (unsure on the exact specs) running 8.6. It's my girlfriend's, and yes, she still uses it regularly.
My oldest one is a Powerbook Pismo 2000. With 768MB RAM and 40GB HD it's still a very useful machine five years after it's release. For web, such as smaller PS files, PHP, MySQL and CSS it's still great. It's suprising but works well with hi-res images as well, just not as snappy as a G5. :)
I have a 128K mac that runs at 7.89 MHz, has a whopping 128 KB of RAM, and a giant 4OOK floppy for storage. It handles...500*290 MacPaint 1.O files flawlessly :-P
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its got 32 MB of ram and reset to 1900 after y2k. Still runs. Its good to play old OLD EA games before they ruled the world, games like arcon (chess RPG) and below the root. it even had a 3-d pac man.Space invaders and broderbund print shop with two typefaces serif and sans, it had clip art and pixel coloring where you can create, or customize clip art, pixel by pixel. the keyboard was metal and weighed about 10 pounds, and was not something to be "homerowed" (check the movie for what i mean) with. Two floppy drives (the 5 inchers) a;/ drive and the elusive b:/ drive. Sorry grew up on DOS and PCs. So thats probably why i never had an love for Macs. i think it cost about $5k. my how the times have changed.
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Not at the moment, but I have a G3 B/W with a whopping 350mhz of sheer power. Also as a decoration in my apartment I have a fully functional Mac SE from 1988. I think it runs at about 8mhz.
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I am running a current iBook.
my mom on the other hand, tries to use my old Powercomputing Powercenter, running 10.2.8
glacially slow. grass grows faster.
Classic Macs sell very well nowadays. If you had an original unpacked 1984 Mac you could easily exchange it for a brand new dualie.
We have a B&W G3 350 like Wedgin. Vintage what? '99? It came with a 6 GB HD and 256mgs of Ram. It now has an upgraded G4 800mhz processor, 768 mgs of ram and a 40GB hard drive. It has not been shut off for months and my husband uses it every day for internet. It is also the host for our Wifi network hooked to the satellite modem via a Linksys wireless G router. Chugs along like a champ and not that slowly. Rick downloads lots of iTunes and uses his shuffle with it. It has an external firewire CD burner. It also is hooked by USB to the Epson printer which the other two computers access through the wireless also. This is one of the most stable computers I have ever had. I also have a G4 Tibook 400MHZ delivered the night before the Twin Towers tragedy in New York. Not to be morbid just a good time frame reference. It is the host to my back up external HD accessed through wireless on the Airport card. Daily driver is an iMac G5 but I love 'em all. I do have a Performa 6320 and a MacPlus but they, while operable, are not used much. Good idea for a thread.
All bow down to my dos prompt 75 Mhz Laptop. Complete with a trackpoint and annoying piezo beeper, it is sure to rock the face off of any retrogeek. I realize that this SHOULD be a mac, but this is just too pitiful not to be noticed.
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This was the 1st Macintosh computer produced by Apple, unless you count the Lisa.
It's boxed up, but still works and is in nearly perfect condition.
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That's the kind I have. :-)
I almost gutted it in the early 1990s in an effort to turn it into a cool goldfish bowl. Glad I didn't.
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Belive it or not, my dad has been using an Apple Mac Quadra 950 for about 14 years I think, and is running Freehand 3.
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i have a old ibm which is has a lightning speed processor of 5mhz and 200kb of ram and 2gb hard drive. ithas been with my family for the last 18years and i have used it for 2 years.
My uncle in china says it still is the fastest computer he has ever seen!
Recently i have gotten a dell xps with an i5 processor at 3.2ghz, 6gb ram and a 1terrabyte hard drive.
But to my uncle its a piece of s**t
Qaz Uncle says:
you are all a bunch of loosers!
my 5mhz computer will smash anything in its way!
ANYTRHING!
qaz"s mum saying in the background to qaz uncle:
its time for your medicine!
I thought I had the oldest computer around . . . until I went looking for it and it's not in my basement anymore! This post brings back fond memories of working with a PowerMac in the 1980's that had - gasp - one MB of RAM and two floppy drives. Because it had RAM (unlike my roommate's computer) I didn't have to swap diskettes as frequently. I had one System disk, one Program disk, and one Documents disk. When I used the computer a lot I would have nightmares that in order to take a breath, I would have to switch diskettes. This is kind of cheating, though, because we're talkin' 25 years ago.
Just bought a Macbook Pro, but it's not totally worked into my system yet - so my main machine is still my G4 titanium (800 Mhz 2001?). I still regularly use my G3 (the very last beige model Apple made - 333 Mhz 1996?) for my database and scanning. In my closet is the machine I started on - a 512K Mac - the second model with the "Macintosh" name (1985?) - still working. All you folks are welcome to come over anytime for a game of asteroids.
Also have 4 macquariums made from various models... a 512, SE (dual floppy drives!), SE30 and a Classic.
Yeah man am still the hottest, I purchase my laptop in 2000, it's still working hard with 1.5ghz, 90gb harddrive, 2gb RAM