[Nottingham] Poll: While we're on the subject of ancient gear...

James Moore jmthelostpacket at googlemail.com
Tue Jun 18 14:37:49 UTC 2013


What's the oldest *functional* x86 hardware you have? I'll start.

Olivetti twin floppy 8080 terminal. With its own monitor. Used to have a 
Radio Shack TRS8086, which met the bin last year - but it did survive my 
first Pentium (a secondhand Frankenstein of a Dell Dimension XPS P60 
with RAM upgrade to a stonkin' 48MB and 4MB graphics card, which did 
have Linux installed when the processor finally died!)
...And what's the oldest *functional* non-x86 gear you have?

BBC Model A.

Also in my "museum", I have a collection of Sinclairs, a Commodore +4, 
and somewhere knocking about, a Psion Series 3 (who else can remember 
when a set of batteries in a handheld lasted a month?) and some 
unidentifiable portable word processor which has MS-DOS loaded on an EEPROM!



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