How long have you ever gotten a computer to last?

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Permalink Reply by everett on October 28, 2008 at 2:07am

I'm going on 3 years with my computer and it's starting to fall apart lol. The USB ports are shorted out and are completely dead. Something happens to the PSU every once in a while and I won't be able to turn it on. And overall it just doesn't have quite enough power to do what I want it to. For a cheap, custom computer I got off ebay it's not a huge surprise, but I am definitely ready for an upgrade. My laptop, on the other hand, I can see myself keeping for a very long time.

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Permalink Reply by Greg De Santis on October 28, 2008 at 2:13am

Still running after 15 years of service. I have an original IBM PS2 8086 (pre 8088) with a full 640k of ram that runs Dos 6.22, that still runs as a word processor and database on an 8-bit 400mb scsi hard drive. And it still prints to my parallel port 9-pin Okidata 180 turbo dot matrix printer.

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Permalink Reply by digitalhavoc08 on October 28, 2008 at 2:23am

you know its funny how not more then 10 years ago u would never believe computers have 250+ gigs of space in them, and 6 gigs of ram. Then 80 gig HDs were the hottest thing out there. WoW how the world moves so fast in this industry its hard to fathom.

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Permalink Reply by everett on October 28, 2008 at 2:47am

Soon they'll have terabyte thumb drives... and also, soon people will be reading this thread and laughing at how we are impressed by that haha.

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Permalink Reply by cam the computer man on October 28, 2008 at 2:55am

i had an old 98 to run for about 9 years

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Permalink Reply by Enousc on October 28, 2008 at 8:45am

So far, 11 years for my other PC.

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Permalink Reply by TheGratefulNed on October 30, 2008 at 10:37am

I have a Packard Hell desktop from 1992 that should still work. I haven't used it for anything in the last 7 or 8 years. The hardware was all fine when I last had it on...Windows on the other hand needed to be wiped and reinstalled...it'll probably become a Linux box whenever I get it out of storage and have time to mess around with it again. It was an Intel 486DX4 (75MHz) maxed out with 36 MB of RAM and a spacious 420 MB hard drive.

I also have a Commodore 64 that worked last time it was shut down...which was probably at least 8-10 years ago.

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Permalink Reply by Ben Williams (BenWmsOnline) on October 30, 2008 at 11:03am

Theres a Commodore 64 in the basement; it hasnt ran in at least 10 years but should still work.

I will try someday soon.

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Permalink Reply by Amber on October 30, 2008 at 12:16pm

I currently have a working 15 year old Packard Bell desktop with original Windows 3.1 upstairs in the family office. When its on, it sounds somewhat like a small vacuum cleaner running in the background, but I always remember it sounding like that. Up until last year, my father used it to keep his books on it. Occasionally, I'll use it to play old DOS freeware/shareware games. games, such as commander Keen and Hugo's House of Horrors, and old OLD OLD school jeopardy, Jurassic Park, and some other things.

Here's a few pictures I took of it today, if you'd like to see what sort of technology I'm sitting on.

http://amberneely.com/glorious3point1.jpg

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Permalink Reply by Mateus Augusto Lopes on October 30, 2008 at 3:07pm

Wow.

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Permalink Reply by John W on October 30, 2008 at 2:24pm

my record so far is 5 years and it is still going of course now i barely use it becuase i just got my new one.

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Permalink Reply by rob lamper on October 30, 2008 at 3:13pm

i still have my first mac :-) powerbook 520 idono how old it is but i have it 11 years now
it runs like a dream

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