Invincible PC components

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What are the oldest components etc you are currently using that are still working 100% ?

I still have my original casing, PSU and LG DVD writer from 2005.
My ADSL router is a 2003 model, still working perfect after trillions of bytes.
My casing has been home to 3 different PCs, still looks new, cheap iSonic case.
PSU I got with this case has been running 24/7 since 2005 without trouble.
LG 8x DVD writer has burnt a few 100 CDs/DVDs, might be slow, but I've never had a dud disc.

What are your oldest/most solid components?
 
Only my keyboard unfortunately.

My Case and PC itself is quite old Core2Duo 2.1Ghz system with Asus motherboard, but it's new to me since I received it last year only.

My Microsoft keyboard is probably going for about 6 years now :p
 
Bought and AMD Athlon machine in 2001. Changed the CPU to a Sempron 3000+ about 7 years ago and it's still working fine, along with the Asus A7N8-X Deluxe mainboard. The oldest component I have that still kicks ass must be my Creative Live! 5.1 Sound card (bought it in 2000). It still sounds better than any on-board audio to this day.
:)
 
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IBM Model M keyboard, liberated from a previous employer prior to 1998, still going strong. Contemplating a PS/2 to USB conversion for it.
 
My colleagues have a few ancient PC's that they're using as routers/Asterisk boxes, which are like Pentium 3's or older.

My oldest working PC is my old gaming PC, AMD Athlon XP 2400+, 1GB DDR400, 20GB HDD & GeForce2 GTS, that is being used to display stats & reports in my office on a nice big LCD TV.

I'm also using an ancient Telkom 5100 ADSL modem on my 4Mbps ADSL connection and it is as solid as a rock.
 
My speakers are pretty outdated but to be honest they sound better than any new models. They are MECER SP-689 multimedia speakers. Got them back in 1999 or 2000. Had money to redo my whole system and then thought f**k it, they are big, bulky and look like ancient ruins but dang they work like a charm.
 
I have a working Fujitsu HDD - I think about 2GB dated 1997-12 and a floppy drive from around 1995 that I am keeping in case (not sure in case of what). I also have a P1 from around 1995 that I started up a few months ago to see if it's still going.
 
I recently discovered an old Quantam Fireball 20Gb Hard Drive from the late 90's that I booted up and it was still working fine (I thought). Decided to use it for storing my music collection as I was tight on HDD space and about 1 hour into the copy it cut out. It still works, but it keeps on cutting out every now and then, so that's back in the e-waste box.

I've also got the same chassis with me from 2004, but I'm actually rebuilding into a new chassis tonight as this one is bent in way to many ways.

And then my trusty old keyboard from Microsoft, like terasides, is still going strong. It's had way to much coffee and Oros spilled on it and it's more of a light brown colour nowadays, but it still works great. Had it replaced with a Logitech gaming keyboard and mouse combo that served me well in 2006, but then they both broke about 2weeks after the 1 year warranty finished.

I've got a LG IDE DVD Writer with me as well, but if I recall it's about 6 years old or so. Haven't had any trouble with that, but I think it was one of the last ones before going to SATA2, or I drove to this place to get it as I didn't have a SATA2 MB or something, can't exactly remember now...
 
1.2Gb Seagate IDE HDD which still works, unlike the newer 20-40-60Gb HDD's...

So ironic.

Also got a Bigfoot HDD, gonna start it up and do a test on it at work to see if it's still reliable after being mothballed for a couple of years.

AND... I've got a 100Mb Zip drive (parallel port version) which still works. :wtf: But its a schlepp to drag it out, plug it in, and trying to store data on piddly 100Mb disks...

33.6bps modem :o :D Remember those? From the days before ADSL...

Also two Pentium2 AL440LX motherboards with Pentium2 266MHz CPU's and RAM which still works. Solid. Reliable. Where other motherboards suffer from swollen cap syndrome, these two does not.
 
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Cambridge Soundworks 5.1 speakers, 2001. One set in the P.C. room, the other set in the lounge. Sound Blaster Audigy SX, still going strong, got it when they were release. Plenty old 20Gb and 40Gb HDD's.
 
I'm using an old Windows 98 workstation as a print server & SETI (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/) work unit cruncher. It has been running since 1998 - 24/7/365 (Except when The $hitty Of Tshwane doesn't supply electricity). Consists of an AMD K7 processor, Quantum Fireball 20Gb HDD and even has a Sound Blaster 16 ISA card in it which was orignally part of a Sound Blaster Game Blaster kit I purchased in the early 90's. Been through a couple of power supplies, but otherwise everything runs 100%.
 
I have a 130meg hard drive that still works.

My home pc uses a compaq keyboard made in 1995 (one of the first with a win key).

My home pc's case (retired now for about a month) ran NT Server 3.51 years and years ago, was bought new then.

lol, we have a wirecutter at work that still has a 386 pc in.
 
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I have a 130meg hard drive that still works.

My home pc uses a compaq keyboard made in 1995 (one of the first with a win key).

My home pc's case (retired now for about a month) ran NT Server 3.51 years and years ago, was bought new then.

lol, we have a wirecutter at work that still has a 386 pc in.
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About 4 years ago working as a sys admin one of the PCs I supported was a 486 running win 3.1. It was also embedded in a very very expensive machine. The software it ran would have cost around 80k for an upgrade to the win 98 version and that was the latest the machine could run on. What was amazing was that this box had some fancy propietary video capture stuff and had 2 21" CRT monitors. Win 3.1 itself ran like a dream as long as you got everything right in your ini files etc. The software and the video capture stuff was unbelievably fast and smooth!
 
The 386 runs on dos, also about a R80K upgrade to get it on windows.
Does very simple stuff and I don't see the point in doing an upgrade when it works fine.
 
I've still got a Microsoft Optical Wheel mouse from way back in Ye Olde Tymes (1999 or so). Don't actually use it anymore but it still works perfectly.

But the killer is a positively ancient VGA 640x480 CRT screen from I think 1990 or 91. Probably even before that.
I still remember not being able to play the first Age of Empires on it, since it required 800x600 resolution.

Also: not PC related, but my dad still has an original Atari 2600 which he bought brand new, still working to this day.
 
Still got a solid black Samsung 1.6GB HDD here, whirring along like no tomorrow, inside a Pentium 1 with a few megabytes of SDRAM ... ISA Lan Cards etc etc - everything still working fine. :D
 
Acer O.O.B.E. DX4/100mhz 16MB RAM - upgraded from 4MB - 548MB Seagate HDD - 8X CD Rom which works on and off. When you use the machine, sometimes you gotta manually spin the CPU fan or you get blue screens of death even. Running windows 95, originally came with win3.1.
Still using the ACER 15 inch monitor with it - SVGA and all that! haha
 
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