Oldest system you've sold/given to someone?

[JW The Computer Guy]

I recently gave my sister an old Dell Optiplex GX110 I had laying around with a Pentium 3 800MHZ and 256MB ram. She just needed something to go on facebook and check email with. She says it runs fast for a 10 year old machine.

Whats the oldest system you've sold or given to someone?

 

[SmR13]

I just gave away a old HP Pavillion with a 3Gb hard drive 128 mb Ram and a 333mhz cpu. The person wanted something old to throw puppy linux on for internet.

 

[vdub12]

A customer just gave me a Slot 1 P3 533 with 128MB of ram and windows 98.

I had it in the shop to transfer there data to a new machine that I loaded up for them. After I was done they asked me if I wanted the old one.

Not sure what I am going to do with it. It's in one of those nice old antec cases. It will more then likely get parted out for test parts. I have an old Windows 2000 server that has a slot one to socket 370 adapter that runs a citrix 333. I might put the CPU in that.

 

[Alan22]

A 1992 Gateway 386 system (can't really remember the model). That was the first computer I ever sold to someone. Great deal at the time for around $1200-$1500.

In recent times I work on many older Point-of-Sale systems. Many places I service have systems made by Micros Systems circa 2001-2003. They are PIII 700Mhz or 1Ghz w/ 512MB PC100/133 SDRAM (max). I have a few refurb units ready to go should they fail in a retail location (which happens quite often).

 

[Skyhooker]

My nephew bought an old IBM Thinkpad 600 for $10 (233MHz P2, 128MB RAM, 20GB HDD), and this week I set it up with Puppy Linux. It went from completely useless with Windows XP to a very serviceable basic browsing machine with Puppy. I remain the family Hero Geek!

I've also set up several old P3 machines with Xubuntu, and they run extremely well, but I haven't found a home for them yet.

 

[topaz]

old pcs

You all sound too young
Commadore 64+4
BBC
Sinclare spectrum
When you have given these away you are old
PS these pcs are now worth a bit of cash

I have also given away a Nitendo ds with linux

Tigertech

 

[DCGPX]

I recently parted with my old Athlon 1333 Thunderbird, self built cost £1400 at the trime and was top of the range. I've had it for years and never an ounce of problems. Its been a workstation, server, firewall, Linux test bed.

kept it for sentimental reasons, hard to part with cos of cost, even though prob worth about £50 now!!

 

[Styxbound]

Old machines

Sorry to hear the Commodores 64 are worth something_gave one away a few months ago because I thought it was worthless!! Gave the same guy an old Apple with, I guess, about an eight inch crt. Then I tried to give my seven year old grandson an old P1 desktop with a lot of games.
"Can it go on the internet?" he asked.
"Well, not really very well."
"Then I don't want it."
That's when I started just throwing out P1 era machines. But I think the oldest I've had was an awesomely heavy Magnovox with something like a 192MB hard drive. Dumb me, I threw that out too.

 

[sjlplat]

I still have an IBM Thinkpad P1 166MHz laptop with Win98SE. Used it for maps in my car before GPS became affordable. Now it sits there collecting dust, but I can't bring myself to get rid of it.

 

[Chilli]

Would have to be my old Commodore 64 that I had since I was 6. Gave it away 10+ years ago to a friend. I heard they still have it. Had that thing through my entire childhood.

Gave away a 486 around the same time, but I think it got dumped. It was pretty useless.