What's the slowest system you have in service?

[OC]

Well?

Mine is a Pentium Pro 180 with 256mb RAM and a custom BIOS to allow it to recognize large hard drives. I currently have 80 and 120 Gb drives in it. It's my file server, and it'll be a web server again when I get some other, unrelated issues worked out.

[Nija]

p150
32mb RAM
4x cd-rom
10GB HDD
fvck'd video card according to mandrake8 (but i can instal it )

that's the oldest one i have.

[kimchicowboy]

my parents have some celeron piece-of-crap computer. i think the HDD is slower than 5400 rpm.

[revil]

an 866.

[ski]

Two 233 MHz Dell Laptops

popped in PCMCIA 802.11b cards and they're great for friends who come over and want to sign online/check mail

[spigidygak]

A 68LC040 33MHz cpu . . . its a mac performa amazingly still kicking and running like the day we got it. On the x86 side right now its probably an athlon 1.4.

[jase71]

PII-300 Compaq laptop running Linux that I use at work. Purely to avoid the web traffic software that monitors usage based on domain login. Since the linux machine never logs on to the domain, I run under the radar.

God bless clueless admins.

[Hoser]

A Pentium 100 with just a floppy drive. I've been playing with bootable floppies running Linux for a firewall.

I also have a Celeron 500 Mini-ATX system and a Dual Celeron 500 (Abit BP6) system.

Last year I threw out two old 486 DX2/66 systems. One was an old Packard Hell with a CDROM that ran off the sound card.

[bachviet]

Use to have a 1.47Ghz (Athlon XP 1700+) but it has been parted. Now the slowest sytem is the Dell Inspiron laptop (P4-M 1.8Ghz).

[eSDee]

At my work I have an old ass Centris Mac that barely boots. Also I have a couple of 20 lb P1 laptops that are still in service.

[GilbertsGrape]

until a couple of mounths ago i was runing a P75 with 24mb of ram and Windows NT 4.0 as a DHCP server and as a Print server. yes beleve it or not it worked. just couldnt download any sp's beceause you coauld not open IE because there wher not enough resources for it . i would burn the SP to cd so i could install them.

[slaus]

p2 400 from dell thats like 5+ years old

[Joshua]

Dual PII 400mhz Compaq professional Workstation. At one time, this machine was the sh!t! Now it is sh!t.

[Bires]

I have a Pentium-100 Laptop with a busted PCcard port and 1/2-faded screen-it use it to flash my gameboy flash card. Nothing else.

[K2]

My calculator...

[Cheesypuff]

Remember those floppy diskets that were like 1 foot by 1 foot kind of floppys

yeah...I had one

yup...that computer didn't even have a HDD. it ran on RAM alone

BEAT THAT! I don't think it was even measured in mhz

[Bires]

Originally posted by Cheesypuff
Remember those floppy diskets that were like 1 foot by 1 foot kind of floppys

yeah...I had one

yup...that computer didn't even have a HDD. it ran on RAM alone

BEAT THAT! I don't think it was even measured in mhz

IN SERVICE?

What do you use that for?

[Cheesypuff]

not in service persay...

it's been in storage, we haven't used it in a while...

but when we put it away, it was still working...does that count?

[coleslaw]

Originally posted by Cheesypuff
but when we put it away, it was still working...does that count?

Nope, you're not actively using it. I think we could go on and on about computers like that, as I'm sure most of us have had ancient systems.

I've got a 350MHz K6-II running FreeBSD as a personal file and web server.

[GilbertsGrape]

http://home.iae.nl/users/pb0aia/cm/modelii.html
is some of the PC's with 8" disks i hade 2 of those model II systems and the external flopy drive banks, and even a 8 mb hd and a modem that you placed your phone reciever on... .ok now guess how old i am .................................................................................................... .............

this was the first PC ihad ever used .... then moved to a trash 80, Apple II E, and a IBM model 25 system.......

[Bires]

hopefully this won't hijack the thread, but if you want to talk about old hardware, no one beats the colleges-ten years ago I got to take apart a 100MB hard drive that I found in the lab I was using. It weighed more than 50 pounds, had an aluminum housing and a mechanical (not electromagnetic) platter-arm. The drive itself was composed of two platters, each 15" in diameter. The prof I was working with said he thought it came from the Dept of Energy back in the 70's.

[djradam]

i might have you all beat ... my brain is pretty slow, and i use that sometimes

[caribiner23]

My webcam is running on an IBM ThinkPad 600 with a PII 233 MHz CPU, 96MB of memory, and Windows98. I think it has a 3 GB hard drive.

[Johnnymac]

PI 133 running MAME in an arcade cabinet.

[djradam]

Originally posted by DarkFury

Is it "overclockable"?

definitely not! though i know it is "downclockable"

[attgig]

Originally posted by djradam


definitely not! though i know it is "downclockable"

perhaps you just haven't used the right cooling devices:

[Bires]

Originally posted by attgig



perhaps you just haven't used the right cooling devices:

Thats funny.