Jeff Stibling's blog
Show Off Your Old Hardware
07:06 AM on Nov 09, 2007

This is my very first PC which I still use today,
Its a IBM 386/66
It was purchased in 1993 with a CNC Machine Tool
and is a DOS only system, Windows wasn’t invented
yet and I have dual monitors LOL

All the youngsters out there LOOK, there is no CD-Rom,
I actually have a 5-1/4 floppy drive with
a 3-1/2…Find me this today on your alien machines :)

Although very slow it did wonders for CNC Programming in where it didn’t place gobs of code when it wasn’t
needed and hurt the memory of the machine tool.

Look all this room for storage :)




Posted by Enis Dauti at 07:27 AM on Nov 09, 2007
Comment #2

Oldest hardware I have (still working!):

Posted by Tommy Regan at 07:45 AM on Nov 09, 2007
Comment #3

Old hardware, huh? I'll go ahead and post this for Finn to save him the trouble....

Posted by Johan Nilsson at 07:56 AM on Nov 09, 2007
Comment #4

Twat. :P

I sold my old PC yesterday so here's my old hardware

1983 Suzuki Katana GSX1100S

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Posted by Garry Hedrick at 10:39 AM on Nov 09, 2007
Comment #5

Dual disc drives AND dual monitors. You're rockin'!

Posted by David Banta at 10:50 AM on Nov 09, 2007
Comment #6

I have one of those too Enis, and it still works also :)
BTW, you have the wrong super Mario Bros. game in there, it should be 3, not the crappy 2.

Posted by Enis Dauti at 11:01 AM on Nov 09, 2007
Comment #7

David, it's not my photo. :) I have whichever Mario Bros came with it as default. Which one is that?

Posted by David Banta at 11:06 AM on Nov 09, 2007
Comment #8

mine didn't come with Mario Bros, mine came with superspike V'ball and worldcup soccer. but we also have the mario bros series :)

Posted by Steve Smith at 11:07 AM on Nov 09, 2007
Comment #9

Bah. NES is too new. Ol' skool baby....

Yes it still works and even have THE original Pac-Man cassette for it. And Activision's first ever mega-hit, Pitfall. It rocks!

Posted by Enis Dauti at 11:17 AM on Nov 09, 2007
Comment #10

Steve, you showoff. Don't reveal any more though!

David, thne I have Mario Bros 2. :) It was good to me. :p

BTW Mario Bros 3 in 11 minutes. That's GH in Bros world! ROFL!

Posted by Jerry Chen at 11:44 AM on Nov 09, 2007
Comment #11

Very nice Jeff. 5.25 floppy rocks! I already posted my in Tim's blog.

I actually stripped out that 386/66 last yr and recycled the scrap metal and bits and pieces. I needed the closet space. hehe. ;)

Before that, I remember my brother used to have an old IBM PS/2 286 when we lived in NZ. That thing was sweet. Back then, all the computer games were self booting 5.25 floppies. You just stuck the disk in and hit the power switch. Who needs an OS? :)

I also still had an old P133 i used as recently as sophomore yr at SC (99-00) with an old school 33k modem. Kids have it easy today, big fat T1 and fibreoptic pipes to steal all the music they want. ;) It was only a few years ago when most colleges in the US didn't have full ethernet/high speed in all their dorms and apartments.


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