Oldest PC I've seen in a shop

HSo

I'm not sure if this is the right place, but it is about a piece of PC hardware.

There is a shop in Naas, a rather well known electrical retailer and in the front window he has what must be the oldest PC I have seen in any shop around the Country. I think it is an IBM 386 complete with Monitor. According to my parents who moved from Dublin to Kildare many years ago the same PC has been on display in the shop window for about the last 10 years. I mean this thing is really ancient, this is obviously a salesmans who never gives up.:D

I'll try to get a pic of it in the next day or two.

Lord Oz

What's the price on it?

conzy

I bet he is selling it for 1000 irish pounds:D

djmarkus

Thats a quality compusaurus

HSo

I couldn't see a price tag, but I bet Conzy is right. He'll be trying to recoup his original outlay of 10 years ago.

awhir

HSo wrote:

I couldn't see a price tag, but I bet Conzy is right. He'll be trying to recoup his original outlay of 10 years ago.

will try to sell it off as a anticke.

conzy

Its not an antique.............

Its an Artifact!!!!!!!! It should be in the National Museum!!!!:D

Ruu_Old

I miss my wang 386 *pets*

Sparky

I had a wang 386 years ago, man did it make noise.
It was also missing a turbo function

conzy

What the hell did Turbo do???????????

Im too young:( Man, I wish I had a turbo button........

Was it like a overclock button?:D

Sparky

It done fcuk all tbh.

TerrorFirmer

Haha I remember the turbo button, and there was one with a basic lcd mini display, so it showed the "turbo boosted" cpu speed when you pressed the button....god it was so crap

Ruu_Old

I think it had to do with early programs at that time which were made to run at a certain speed.

Stephen

Yeah, when you turned off the turbo button it slowed down your uber fast 386 so that old software didn't run ridiculously fast.

8T8

Yeah the Turbo button was used for slowing down the computer with older software that ran too fast (due to the way they were written) when those kind of machines were the top of the line think of it as sort of a compatibility feature.

pred racer

My local computer shop, who is very reasonable for parts etc, is selling 450MHz celeron "internet ready computers" including mouse keyboard and 15" monitor:eek: for a knock down price of 375 euro

Ruu_Old

Something like the beauty below?

atheist

Not quite that old. If memory serves me right it's an IBM Aptiva and 5 years ago in the same spot was a PS/1 and previous to that a Goldstar 286.

the_syco

pred racer wrote:

My local computer shop, who is very reasonable for parts etc, is selling 450MHz celeron "internet ready computers" including mouse keyboard and 15" monitor:eek: for a knock down price of 375 euro

Funny, as jaguarcompsys.ie is selling a P4 (3GHz) net ready PC for €375 (ex VAT):D

esskay

I remember my first PC was an 086 (the one before 286). I ran at 4mhz and the "turbo" boosted it to a whopping 8mhz. No HDD either, booted off a DOS 3 floppy :-)

pred racer

Not quite as megalithic as that beauty Ruu, but close.

legologic

I was always a hardcore gamer... First machine was a good oul C64
Complete with tape deck!


But aye... thats some monolith he's got for sale!

unkel

esskay wrote:

I remember my first PC was an 086 (the one before 286). I ran at 4mhz and the "turbo" boosted it to a whopping 8mhz. No HDD either, booted off a DOS 3 floppy :-)

Yup, the cloners started shipping them with turbo button to boost cpu speed from 4.77mhz to 8mhz - a 68% overclock

The 386 was actually released 20 years ago, not 10 :eek:

It's astonishing that it was 32-bit (to address the max ram of 640KB) and 20 years on, we're still on 32-bit mainly and only now slowly moving towards 64-bit