what is THE sadest comp?

[blind to truth]

ill have to say my.......

IBM model 30 w/286 10 MHz
20 meg HDD
1 meg ram
3" floppy
windows 1.01 , 2.03 , 3.0
VGA *WOW*

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[LordLocksley]

you win...
my wife's computer isn't even that bad....

[jl123]

Hey yeah i had one of those too! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

I used to play a game with pirates http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

I don't even think the thing had a hard drive.

I was only 8 when i had this so i don't remember the specs. I didn't even know about computers at that time.
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~Joel(jl123)

[hd581]

I've got you all beat:

Macintosh

[Szech]

LOL!

[Eli]

blind to truth, I have a 286 here very similar to yours... Except my 20 meg hard drive never worked (when was the last time you lived off of floppies? lol), and since it's MCA architecture, I can't do anything to upgrade it with common parts, ie. hard drive or ram. Nice eh? Anyone have any ideas as to what I can do with it? http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

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[bell1]

Hey All
Any body remember the TRS80 (Radio Shack) ?

[pin-monkey]

My Atari 800 1.78Mhz and 16k of RAM

Drives??? Those must be the things at the ends of the cables I put cassettes in. No Hard disk either

[hackercarlos]

You all beat me but let me put in my 0.02 cents.

My slowest computer was the Apple Macintosh 7200/90. Processor was 90MHZ, 500MB hard drive, 4X CD-ROM and 32MB of ram. LOL

Look at my system now.

P3 550, 15GB, 50X CD-ROM, TNT2, 256RAM.

I still have the MAC but it is in a box catching dust right now. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/biggrin.gif

[Meat Puppet]

I think I just won this . I owned a Timex sinclair + tape drive.With a 13 inch BW television I bought from target. And it still works http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif.

[ElectricBrain]

I think even a calculator is more powerful than some of the set-ups you guys said.

[Richard_Cranium72]

To me what is truly sad, my tall pal at work's new Toshiba laptop that is much slower than my P100 o/c to 120. He KNOWS, but nobody says anything..

[Missing the point]

I got a Coleco!

[CMonster]

The saddest... is never having owned a computer...

hackercarlos - that is a nice little Macintosh, why don't you donate it to a children's home and take a $500 tax credit on it instead of using it for a dust magnet.

[blind to truth]

OK,ok.....the slowest,least RAM,worse computer that is in my possession is a commadore 64 that i found an hour ago in my closet.Has a tape drive,floppy drive,games,and i can write my own programs .

[jl123]

Well i had a IBM 80286 6 mhz for about a week.

512kb of ram
12 meg hd
no windows just dos(early version)
3 1/2 floppy*WOW*
5 1/4 floppy*whoa*
VGA

But then i threw it away and kept the screws.

~Joel(jl123)

[LJJones]

Commodore Amiga
***With 501 Ram Expansion Pack***
Total of 1mb Ram
Windows Workbench 1.2
Broken Floppy Disk Drive
No HDD, so unusable.

[krusty the klown]

Hehe... just remembered I've got a TRS80 http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif I'd actually forgotten that I had the think!!!!!

I know that I put a memory expansion card in it, but I can't remember how much (batteries are long dead, so I can't fire it up)

Anyone know the spec on those things - CPU MHz (or should I say kHz http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif )????

[jad1097]

Windows HA! How about my old Apple 2c? It still works even the tiny green screen monitor works.


, the Apple IIc sports a 65C02 CPU running at 1 MHz, 128 KB of RAM (expandable to 1 MB), a built in 5.25" disk drive and 2 built-in serial ports, a mouse port and a disk port.
http://www.concentric.net/~Togega/Apple2/AppleIIc.html

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[jl123]

hahhahaha. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

It's sad how slow some of our setups are. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif But they are fun to talk about and mess around with.

Here's a link to the processory speed of the TI Calculators. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif Hey the TI-92 plus is faster than the 286 i had http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
http://www.ti.com/calc/docs/faq/83faq067.htm

~Joel(jl123)

[ctaylor]

the "saddest" PC I have ever had the misfortune of working on was a Toshiba Tecra 440.

It would not run correctly even with a clean format and reinstallation of the toshiba version of the "quick restore" CD taht shipped with the machine. It would spontaneously turn itself on and off. It would have memory dumps with all M$ Office apps. Would not allow an istallation of Corel Office '97. Lotus Smart Suite '97 would install perfectly, but fail to allow me to open any apps.

To top it all off the notebook PC was built with 50,000 screws inside and this added an extra 12 pounds to the weight of the machine....it had to be the screws, somehow this Pentium class machine wieghed more than the old DELL 386 notebook I have.......ultimately I left the thing open until all the batteries were dead and claimed that the machine was irrecoverable.

I'm sure there are some TIGER PCs out there of equal esteem. *NUDGE*

[catcow]

Has to be the old ZX81. The poor thing had 1k of ram and the most unreliable add on ram pack you had ever seen. If you breathed on it it would crash.
http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Warthog]

hd581, you've got my vote for the saddest comp. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Warthog

[Inferior]

Anything with a Cyrix processor in it.

[Eli]

Now that was a low shot... http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[commodsquad]

I had a commodore vic20 with just a tape drive and an old black and white tv for my monitor LOL. I dont even remember the specs on it, other than it was more hassle to get things to run since the tape drive was so slooowwww ..does an abacus count too?? http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/biggrin.gif

[davem]

My saddest was :
A 386dx
33mhz
8mb Ram
250mb hd
running win98
We now use it as one of the main invoice comps at work(beleive it or not)

[dexmax]

I got a PC/XT. w/o any hdd. it has a 5 1/4 floppy drive. i got this when i was 12 i think... well, it still works. but no one will touch it. so now, its in a box.

[dos7]

this computer im about to tell you about what not all that bad speed wise,,but get this,,it was a cybermax computer,,with a cyrix 6x86 processor 133mhz i believe. Although im not fond of cyrix processors,,this one was okay considering it was overclocked from cyrix. After two years of mysterious crashes and other assorted problems, it finally gave up the ghost,,wouldn't even post...so i take the thing apart and i discover the the voltage settings were to high AND it was overclocked!!! this was my fathers computer,,the overclocked processor wouldn't have ever slipped by me......and for that ,,it was the saddest computer, although the cybermax customer service was pretty good......

[cwin]

Nice old post! My worst was a Commedor 64
:t

[Sweeper]

Kaypro II
Manufacturer Non-Linear Systems
Model Kaypro II
Processor / Clock Z-80A@2.5Mhz.
RAM installed / max 64k / 64k
Storage 2x5.25" 291 KB FDD
OS CP/M 2.2
Bus No internal expansion
Display 100x160
Year Introduced / Built / Purchased 83

Still have it in my bedroom closet. :D

http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/kaypro/

[sm8000]

Last summer we were cleaning out closets at school and found an old Zenith Data Systems machine. An all-in-one unit with a small (presumably green or amber) screen, dual 5.25" floppy drives, and so on. I'm not sure what model it is (it's in another state at the moment) but a friend of mine may have a digital pic so I'll try and get it soon.

[sm8000]

Finally got the picture of it!

[cwin]

2 DRIVES!! :eek:
Somebody is rich :p

[Billforce]

Osborne all/in/one with a 5" screen. Just before the originator killed himself in a Porche driving the curves ouside San Fran.

[j.m@talk]

Abacus .......................... Still can't work it :p

[leprechaun_40]

My first machine was a Visual Systems 8086 @ 4.77 mhz, 512KB ram ( had it upgraded from the standard 128kb!) Dual 5 1/4 floppies Dual density even, NO HDD, a 12 inch amber monochrome monitor, Daisy wheel printer w/ tractor feed attachment. DOS 2.11:D

This was back in the 80's, what a hoot it was to be able to even use that thing. I did upgrade to a 13 in. RGB monitor later on and even got a color dot matrix printer, wow,,LOOL:x

[mireland]

Does this bring back fond memories??

[sm8000]

WOW!!

Just imagine what kind of computing power $8500 can purchase today, monitor and mouse included!

[doomforce]

in my opinion,the SADDEST computer is an Athlon xp 3200+ with a radeon 9700 pro etc. thats mainly used for office work:p

[2penguins]

I had a Timex Sinlcair too...shocker...absolute shocker....


The coolest comp I ever used....(ok the first I ever used :) )

http://www.vintage-computer.com/images/pet8032.jpg

I also had a Heath kit 8032 that was pretty cool also!

[Triton]

I wanna say, an old IBM Tandy(unknown model), my parents bought in the early 80's....quite the price 2 around 3 grand....
i think it had a 2 meg hard drive or something of that sort, the standart 5.? inch floppy and i believe a 3.5 inch floppy as well..... ran on dos, not sure of the ram, although i remember waiting quite the time for it to boot up, had an extremely old dot matrix printer with the ribbons and everything like that....we could only print in either red, green, or black, every "game" looked the same, little blocks running around the screen, except for one game called round42, **** if i could only find a copy of that thing today id be set

[Dracas]

Somewhere at the old house in Ohio I had a oem no-name brand PC, here's the stats (upgraded):

Simen 802x86 6MHz
16(?) KB of 30-pin RAM SIMM
PC-AT Mainboard (CHiPS IIRC)
MFM Controller Boards

Hercules Monochrome Graphics Adapter
10" Goldstar Black and White Greyscale (256 Shade) Monitor
2x 5.25" Floppy (limp discuit) Drive
Type-writer style Metal Contact Keyboard (No mouse!)
20MB MFM Hard Disk Drive(I think)

That was upgraded mind you, believe it or not, this was the system I used to learn (quite a bit) about Computer systems, and moved to an 80x386 10MHz + 80x387 FPU system my mom found buried at the Print Shop she bought, after that I went nuts, and ended up with an (incredibly buggy) 486DX2/DX4(after upgrade) system.

Ah, those were the good old days, I use to have my grandmother drag me off to auctions and garage sales to find 386 AT boards because I kept "frying" them in my exploration of how computer systems worked hehe :t

[j.m@talk]

Amstrad PCW(summink)256

Gee I couldn't kill that comp no matter what I did to it ..........

1 Fdd, No Hdd, Green Screen

I tryed to sell it in the free ads once £5 no takers :(

It went to the TIP


:r :r :r

[mireland]

Originally posted by sm8000
WOW!!

Just imagine what kind of computing power $8500 can purchase today, monitor and mouse included!

Yea, for $8500 I could ALMOST afford a Mac! :rolleyes:

[j.m@talk]

Originally posted by mireland


Yea, for $8500 I could ALMOST afford a Mac! :rolleyes:

Probably dirty too :p

[cwin]

I wouldnt pay my own CR@P for a mac :eek: :p ;) :t

[j.m@talk]

Macs are nice.............. Only one button on the mouse.....
Can't get confused :)

Or am I Out of touch ................................AGAIN :rolleyes:

[cwin]

Arrrggghhhh!! One button is the worst thing about them - i always try to right click, but it single clicks.
Do they have a maximize button? I couldnt find it :confused: I had to resize the window by dragging the sides!

the only reason i went on a Mac was because i was on holiday, and the aunt was the only person with a computer -- and it was a Mac! Better than nothing :rolleyes:

[j.m@talk]

I dunno if ya can shift yer buttons around to where ya want then but the last time I used one that button was on the bottom left corner :mad: Frikkin' Confusing :D

[cwin]

ive noticed ure invisible.... JM


Anyways, the MAC is by far the worst PC here;)

[genesound]

I had an Apple IIe with a 512K memory expansion card that I used as a ram drive... there was no hard disk, so it helped move things along! Sold it while it was still worth something... next was an 8088 xt I put together from a box of junk I bought for $100, traded the stuff I didn't need for a 10MB Seagate HD that's still around here somewhere, but I tossed the computer long ago. :D