Oldest ''Working'' Computer Gets New Life

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[citation][nom]Blessedman[/nom]Super computers from 10 years ago are a joke compared to what sit on our desktop, for that matter even the iphone.[/citation]

Not really. I remember about 15 years ago when I was visiting an Amiga computer club where they got heaps of old supercomputers and workstations. One thing that impressed me was that a computer from the beginning of the '80s was as fast as a modern Pentium MMX 200MHz. During the early '90s MIPS released 64-bit superscalar CPUs known as R10000 featuring up to 4MB cache per core, which were found in $500000 Silicon Graphics workstations. And I'm quite sure DEC and SUN released some quite impressive CPUs by that time (such as SPARC and Alpha). And we all know how long it has taken before the 64-bit architecture reached the consumer market.

Maybe the 10-years-old hardware doesn't compete with the top-of-the line gadgets we have today but they sure ain't a joke. As a matter of fact you can buy those million dollar servers second-hand for a price that matches the price of new hardware with similar performance minus tear and wear, and they sure ain't cheap although they don't cost millions as they used to.
 
find a way to get mac osx installed on it thin within the mac os install vm ware then have that run windows 7, then using the virtual windows xp that comes with windows 7, have it run photoshop

and if it fails, then strap it and consider all that money used to fix it is a waste of money and can be better spent on other things
 
Whenever I see something like this, I really wish I could take my computer back in time just to blow someone's mind. It'd be like taking a Bugatti Veyron back in time to Henry Ford.... not that the roads would let it get up to speed, but still.
 
[citation][nom]pocketdrummer[/nom]Whenever I see something like this, I really wish I could take my computer back in time just to blow someone's mind. It'd be like taking a Bugatti Veyron back in time to Henry Ford.... not that the roads would let it get up to speed, but still.[/citation]

You could take the TIRES of that car back to Henry Ford and blow his mind.
 
[citation][nom]demonhorde665[/nom]It has plenty of function, granted it's not usable in scociety today as mroe than a nostalgia , epice , but it can alwasy go fort eh world's largest calculator , but seriously i don't see why so many folks take beef over a museam spendign so doh to refurbish old things , . It's liek tehy bassically think history is "not worth it" i guess we jsut need to throw history out of school all together and perhaps we can have a few more world wars while we are at it[/citation]

It would appear that English is already on it's way out.
 
[citation][nom]g00ey[/nom]Not really. I remember about 15 years ago when I was visiting an Amiga computer club where they got heaps of old supercomputers and workstations. One thing that impressed me was that a computer from the beginning of the '80s was as fast as a modern Pentium MMX 200MHz. During the early '90s MIPS released 64-bit superscalar CPUs known as R10000 featuring up to 4MB cache per core, which were found in $500000 Silicon Graphics workstations. And I'm quite sure DEC and SUN released some quite impressive CPUs by that time (such as SPARC and Alpha). And we all know how long it has taken before the 64-bit architecture reached the consumer market.Maybe the 10-years-old hardware doesn't compete with the top-of-the line gadgets we have today but they sure ain't a joke. As a matter of fact you can buy those million dollar servers second-hand for a price that matches the price of new hardware with similar performance minus tear and wear, and they sure ain't cheap although they don't cost millions as they used to.[/citation]
We still use one of those DEC machines. I also run a personal web site off of one that is even pre Alpha. I have more issues with internet speed than the computer speed. They are rock solid and very secure and still running after many years...can't say as much for all the x86 machines I have owned.
 
I'm all for it, we need to hold on to our computer heritage. Who knows maybe some tech geek will dissect this thing and have the light bulb come on that nobody even thought of. The approach to programming and system building was so different than today you would be surprised what you might learn from something like that.

This weekend I got to digging around in my closet and found my first build just sitting there looking all sad and lonely so I dug it out and threw some parts together and now I've got a working 950mhz AMD Duron with a whopping 10gb hard drive with XP Pro...it's actually running pretty smoothly. It won't any games to speak of but I couldn't care less about that stuff.
 
[citation][nom]caskachan[/nom]LETS TROW AWAY MONEY INTO OLD TECHNOLOGY FOR USELESSNESS FUCKSFUCK YEAH AMERIKKKA[/citation]


they didnt say they were investing in mac ffs.
 
During their restoration I bet the machine gains consciousness and veeeeerrrrrry slooowly begins work on its plan to take over the world.....or at least its plans rid the world of all other four-function calculators.
 
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