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Oldest computer or peripheral that you use daily - Shiunbird - 12-03-2021
I'm curious about what peripherals you use daily.
The oldest device that I use daily is my Model M keyboard from January 1987.
The second oldest is my HP Jornada 720 from around... 2001?
My Mac Pro is from 2009.
RE: Oldest computer or peripheral that you use daily - lunatic - 12-04-2021
There is little left except peripherals, if you only count stuff one uses every day.
I used to run a retro machine as a server, but for a long time this is getting more and more illogical, given that newer machines are so much faster, extremely cheap to buy and much, much cheaper to run. So you are basically left with true retro enthusiasts or stuff that just works and you don't want to touch it.
If you really count only daily use, I've got just two machines from 2018 and 2021. The oldest thing might be some optical USB mouse. I am a loyal user of Microsoft mice ever since I got my first in 1996 with a Windows PC. It's probably not that old, but old enough that the plastic on the mouse buttons has worn out slightly (5 to 10y). I have a printer that is probably 20 years old, but do you print daily? I don't.
RE: Oldest computer or peripheral that you use daily - weblacky - 12-04-2021
(12-03-2021, 12:12 PM)Shiunbird Wrote: I'm curious about what peripherals you use daily.
The oldest device that I use daily is my Model M keyboard from January 1987.
The second oldest is my HP Jornada 720 from around... 2001?
My Mac Pro is from 2009.
Funny I also have a Mac Pro 2009 Unmodded...no longer used but on my desk.
Have a modded HP Jornada 720 that I just rebuilt a battery for! (HP 720 with a 728 Module!)
Daily driver is a first-gen 2012 Macbook Pro Retina (modded with 1TB SSD, modded with reference design 802.11AC Wifi, replaced the battery myself in 2018) running Catalina (I want the newest ARM 16" model but I don't have that kind of cash...so still rocking this guy for now.
My printer is a Canon MP640 from 2004...still works (except the retraction arm for paper output tray broke internally 13 years ago, I could fix it, but I don't care) because I ALWAY use genuine cartridges and no refills! I print about 4-5 times a year. On old canons, what really goes, is the primer system for the ink after use old/bad/improper cartridges over time that cause too much pull/pressure on the system.
I just installed Windows 11 on my Surface pro 3 (got that used for SONG because of a firmware problem that was fixable!), Canon printer scanner installed but driver for canon in Windows 11 had been removed, just went to the canon site, downloaded the Windows 10 x64 driver for the printer, worked fine in Window 11 so far!
So yeah, very old printer.
I really hate printers but I hate laser printers even more than inkjet because of the issues I've had with printers that get very little use. If you a printer every few days, either is fine. If you go many months...problems.
I wish someone would come with a new printer where even if it was $1-$2 per PAGE it can sit in storage for 1-3 years and print a page no problem. I don't care about cost-per-page...I care that I can print in the few times I need to!!! Also it really helped I got a nice thermal printer for my shipping labels...so no more warming up the old printer just to ship or RMA something!
RE: Oldest computer or peripheral that you use daily - Trippynet - 12-04-2021
Not too many old things here in daily use if I'm honest. I have plenty of old bits and bobs around, but they are used rather more sporadically.
I have a couple of 4:3 Dell 20" screens which are used daily and which originate from around 2011. I acquired them from work as they were destined for the skip (everyone wanted widescreen monitors, and these are quite chunky and heavy). My primary laptop is an X1 Carbon from around 2013 - but it isn't in daily use. I only really use it when travelling - it's another piece of old kit I liberated from the skip-pile at work some time back.
I suppose the two Hifi speaker cabinets in my man-cave are pretty classic. They're a pair of Goodmans ones I inherited from my dad and are from the late 1970s. Both work fine and give pretty decent sound quality, but I am considering replacing them with better speakers in the future perhaps. Anyway, they are in daily use as my PC is linked up to them.
RE: Oldest computer or peripheral that you use daily - jan-jaap - 12-04-2021
Same here. My daily drivers are my 2015 Macbook Pro and my HP Z600 which is probably one or two years older. I expect to replace the MBP with a newer one sometime, but don't have plans with the HP -- the newer models clock a little higher (Z640) but it doesn't justify replacing the whole thing. I guess dual X5675's, 48GB RAM and a GTX1070 are everything I need.
The stereo equipment in my man cave is a little older, from around the turn of the century. But it's quality gear and I added digital capabilities with a Cambridge 851N so as long as it doesn't fail catastrophically it's not going anywhere.
I've got an R4400 IMPACT Indigo2 (IRIX 5.3) under my desk that sees at least weekly use. That's got to be from around 1995.
RE: Oldest computer or peripheral that you use daily - jpstewart - 12-05-2021
Like others, I have very old printers: an Epson Stylus R200 inkjet and an HP Colour LaserJet 5500DN. They're both from 2003, I believe. The Epson is neat in that it can handle special inkjet-printable CDs but these days it is mostly used for 1-2 sheet print jobs. The HP can handle 11x17 / A3 paper and has a duplex unit for double-sided printing. It's only worth firing it up for larger print jobs. Both were purchased for business use, and even though the business is no longer around the printers still do their jobs quite nicely and I see no need to replace them. Neither are used "daily", though. More like once or twice a month each.
For daily use, I'm still using the pair of identical monitors that I bought in October of 2009. They're 24-inch, 1920x1200 resolution LCDs. I hate to think how many hours of use they have, being my daily drivers for 12 years straight. I'd like to replace them, but I can't find anything that I like at a price point I also like. Everything newer either looks to be cheap junk or wildly over-priced "professional" monitors that have a ton of features that I'll never use. The sweet-spot middle ground is nowhere to be found.
RE: Oldest computer or peripheral that you use daily - Shiunbird - 12-05-2021
(12-04-2021, 02:14 AM)weblacky Wrote: I wish someone would come with a new printer where even if it was $1-$2 per PAGE it can sit in storage for 1-3 years and print a page no problem. I don't care about cost-per-page...I care that I can print in the few times I need to!!! Also it really helped I got a nice thermal printer for my shipping labels...so no more warming up the old printer just to ship or RMA something!
Three or four years ago I got myself a Lexmark CS317dn for around 150 USD new. It's basically for free, and you pay high for toner.
I hardly ever print (maybe I printed a total of 100 pages) and it's been giving me no headaches.
Plus I can print from all my legacy computers. It has a built-in FTP server with a postscript processor, so all I have to do to print from all my legacy computers is to upload the file to the printer and it magically prints.
(12-05-2021, 12:23 AM)jpstewart Wrote: For daily use, I'm still using the pair of identical monitors that I bought in October of 2009. They're 24-inch, 1920x1200 resolution LCDs. I hate to think how many hours of use they have, being my daily drivers for 12 years straight. I'd like to replace them, but I can't find anything that I like at a price point I also like. Everything newer either looks to be cheap junk or wildly over-priced "professional" monitors that have a ton of features that I'll never use. The sweet-spot middle ground is nowhere to be found.
Tell me about it. Nothing in the middle.
I've been rocking a HP ZR30w that's for sure more than 10 years old, forgot to mention it. I bought it used 3-4 years ago.
RE: Oldest computer or peripheral that you use daily - Trippynet - 12-05-2021
We have an old Brother monochrome laser printer that sees very little use, yet is reliable after more than 10 years of usage. Only issue we've had with it is that it moaned about lack of toner a number of years ago. After popping some gaffer tape over the transparent "view" window on the toner, it continued to print nearly 1,000 extra pages for about 5-6 years before the toner finally became patchy and we replaced it.
I also agree about monitors. After my previous 27" ViewSonic 1920x1200 screen died, it was quite depressing to see the lack of decent 16:10 monitors at a sensible price, and I hate 16:9 aspect ratio displays. In the end I splashed out quite a bit on an expensive Dell UP3017 screen. It was more than I would have liked to pay, but I did get a 2560x1600 30" screen for that, and so far it's been reliable. Albeit it is only about 3 years old right now.
RE: Oldest computer or peripheral that you use daily - jirka - 12-05-2021
The SGI granite keyboard (the PS/2 one) and and PSION Organiser II (1988, I think). My granite mouse is of the latest shape so it's quite new.
RE: Oldest computer or peripheral that you use daily - vishnu - 12-06-2021
My January 1997 Pentium Pro 200 MHz is my 24/7 LAN firewall, LAN dhcpd server, LAN name server and Internet webserver; many of you have used it to download some of my nifty IRIX software:
http://www.smigt.org/m65
If anyone needs IRIX 6.5.30 let me know and I'll put that up for download.
EDIT: For anyone who may think a 200 MHz is ridiculous for a webserver, you are incorrect, a 486/66 can saturate a T1.