Who is using the slowest computer here?

3rd_shift · Mar 25, 2007

Time for something a little different.

What might it be?
A pentium mmx, a p54 pentium, 486, or even an old and well equipped 386 server?

And how have you manged to keep old reliable going so good all this time?
This info may indeed help the rest of us.

gadget_lover · Mar 25, 2007

Well, I have 3 machines made by Phillips that run linux on a 50 mhz powerpc processor. Each has 16 of ram and from 120 to 360 gb hard drives. They selectively store hi frequency radio signals. I review these stored signals daily, sometimes spending hours on end watching the display on a CRT based device.

Daniel

Coop · Mar 25, 2007

I think I have a good chance of winning this one...

I have and use regularly, a Philips VG8010 MSX. It has a 3.57 MHz Zilog Z80 processor and 46kB ram...

gadget_lover · Mar 25, 2007

I also have a 1995 Toshiba 100 mhz pentium 1 laptop that serves as a backup mail server when I need it. It has 24 mb ram and runs linux.

Daniel

gadget_lover · Mar 25, 2007

Wow! What do you use the MSX for?

Daniel

raggie33 · Mar 25, 2007

what is a 64k am i thinking corect is it like 8 perect of 1 meg?

Coop · Mar 25, 2007

gadget_lover said:
Wow! What do you use the MSX for?

Daniel

a few games here and there, but mostly for midi stuff

Illum · Mar 25, 2007

IBM 760XL ...Pentium I at 166MHz, functional for win95
A tower made of scrapped parts....AMD somethung something...37mhz...boots off B:/ drive :ohgeez:

gadget_lover · Mar 25, 2007

raggie33 said:
what is a 64k am i thinking corect is it like 8 perect of 1 meg?

Actually, it's closer to 6.4 % since 1K is 1/1000 of 1meg.

Daniel

Trashman · Mar 25, 2007

Well, I guess my computer isn't so old, afterall! I'm using a Pentium 3 1gz laptop with around 400 total gigabytes of hard drive space (two externals), a couple USB hubs (only has 1 port built in), and 1 gig of ram. It's my only machine. (although, others are available, I just don't use 'em)

raggie33 · Mar 25, 2007

gadget_lover said:
Actually, it's closer to 6.4 % since 1K is 1/1000 of 1meg.

Daniel

rofl thats wild but then again i have a freind in his 70s ya should here about some of the mainframes he worked on one had like 40 k a meory and it was a kmainframe and all vacumn tubes for the memory lol

ernsanada · Mar 25, 2007

http://www.speedtest.net/index.php

ABTOMAT · Mar 25, 2007

gadget_lover said:
Actually, it's closer to 6.4 % since 1K is 1/1000 of 1meg.

Daniel

1/1024

The_LED_Museum · Mar 25, 2007

I've used a Commodore SX-64 to get on the net before...1.02MHz CPU speed (uses a MOS 6510 processor; functionally identical to a 6502 CPU) , 80K of RAM.
Connection speed was a blazing fast 2.4Kbps.

gadget_lover · Mar 25, 2007

1/1000 or 1/1024... Depends on who was selling what.

When speaking of memory, abtomat is corect. 1 K should be 2 ^ 10 and 1 meg should be 2 ^ 20.

Daniel

cobb · Mar 25, 2007

I have a zenith p75 with windows 95 a and aol 3.0. WOrks fine with a usr 56k modem. My laptop is a satellite 2080 a p 266 I think and I was just offered a gateway p166 with scanner, printer and scsi interface. It was running osr2 and office 97.

What to talk about slow? Put win 95 a on a 486 sx with a 40mb hard drive. It had just netscape 3.05 gold and a dial up connector with drive space running.

PhantomPhoton · Mar 25, 2007

The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later.

Ummmm I'd say maybe it's Sasha

:nana: J/K... I couldn't resist when that popped up trying to respond to this thread. :bow: Sorry.

Well do PDA/ Smartphones count? If not I have an AMD K6II @ 450Mhz That runs Ubuntu for me. I rarely use it to surf CPF though.

ABTOMAT · Mar 25, 2007

The computer I normally use isn't slow (completely DIY Athlon 1900+) but I have some in the collection that go back pretty far. Like the Apple //+ with the 1MHz 6502. Also have Kaypro, C64, Osborne, etc.

Coop · Mar 25, 2007

The_LED_Museum said:
I've used a Commodore SX-64 to get on the net before...1.02MHz CPU speed

Crap... I got beaten... Slowest I got to match that is a 1.19 MHz Atari 2600 gameconsole, but that wouldn't count anyway, as I hardly ever use it, and its a gameconsole, not a fully functional computer....

The_LED_Museum · Mar 25, 2007

I believe the Atari 400 computer used the Atari 2600 VCS as a base. You could play Atari 2600 games on it, plus do things on it that you could do with a computer of that era.

Who is using the slowest computer here?

Flashlight Enthusiast

Flashaholic

Flashlight Enthusiast

Flashaholic

Flashaholic

*the raggedier*

Flashlight Enthusiast

Flashaholic

Flashaholic

Flashlight Enthusiast

*the raggedier*

Flashlight Enthusiast

Flashlight Enthusiast

*Retired*

Flashaholic

Flashlight Enthusiast

Flashlight Enthusiast

Flashlight Enthusiast

Flashlight Enthusiast

*Retired*

Similar threads

the raggedier

the raggedier

Retired

Retired