Longest Serving Hardware

[Indiana]

That's an easy winner here, Amiga 4000 (1992, still in use) and Amiga 2000 (198x,well not really in use anymore, but still functional). I even still have the C=1084 monitor (although that would probably more fit in the worst hw-group , but it's stil enough for a small video-preview monitor).

For more modern things: IBM DDRS SCSI HD, was originally in the A4000 and is now in my PC and the ONLY part that hasn't been replaced with those several mainboard/CPU/... changes.
The G400 also had/has a quite long living.

[cjolley]

I just gave my wife my G400 Max and two monitors for her 50th
birthday. (She is taking graphics arts classes)
This resulted in the retirement of her Tandy Full Page VGA monitor: purchased 12/17/1992.
chuck

PS I'm back to our PCI VooDoo 3 2000. Bound to be a classic in the future.

[Fat Tone]

You must really love her

[Kaj]

Oldest serving hardware? That must be the color monitor I had for my MSX-2 is now acting as a TV-monitor. Don't know when I bought it anymore, but it's old.

Since my 62cm TV died, a couple of years ago, I decided not to buy a new one since most of the programs here on Dutch television are crappy as hell, and it's not worth a new one.
However: there were still some shows I liked at the time, so I hooked up the monitor on my VCR (it has a SCART-connector at the back), and there you have it. I change my channels with the VCR, the audio goes through my surroundsystem.

And since I bought a new 22" monitor this summer, my primary monitor is bigger than my TV.

[The PIT]

Epson Stylus color 400. Does what I need it to do but it's noisy.

[cjolley]

Originally posted by Tony Andrews
You must really love her

chuck

PS The V3 2000 is really a pretty good card.

[Alec]

I can vouch for that, cause I have a (broken) Voodoo 3 3000 at home, which I sometimes used, and it´s both a good gaming card and a fast and good-looking 2D card.

[Technoid]

Matrox Mystique 4MB!
The original!

Still the most expensive computer part I have bought...

[Taz]

IBM XT-286 Keyboard, used on every PC I've owned and was second hand when I got it.

[Radan]

Ok, couldn't resist here...

Oldest in use...
Amstrad CPC-464 Color monitor with TV-Tuner base in use as a TV... (excellent reception).. I also pull out the keyboard (with built-in tape drive) occasionally for a laugh... although the 3" (yes 3") floppy disk drive is quite ill... belt is worn out...
Then...
I've a Graphtec MP4200 A3 Pen Plotter I bought around '91... Pens are drying out but it still goes... I also usually only use this for a laugh...
Then...
An original Creative Sound Blaster 16... one of the very first PnP models and the best (only?) card for the old DOS games... It sits in my Pentium 150MHz system indended for those DOS games...
There is also numerous ancient stuff lying in boxes around here then even I can't quite remember the origins of...
hmmm, here's a Full-Length 9600-baud modem card... a Commodore C64 unit... some atari cartridge system... oh and an old A4-Tech AF-1200C flatbed SCSI colour scanner from about '94
Then... well... how about a CyberTraxx 2 VR Headset, full head tracking, dual 640x200 pixel LCD displays, mmmm, works great with the old Descent game... the company disappeared so no DirectX support
hmmm... I'll stop now ....

--
Radan...

[breezer]

We still have a bbc model b and doomsday lazer disk at work,
I also saw a c64 but I think that was the door stop

My Acorn Atom still boots but I don't have a portable cassette recorder any more so nothing will load.

breezer

[cerb]

Okay, this isn't exactly the oldest serving hardware <i>in <b>my</b></i> pc, but my old faithful K6-200 is still alive and kicking as my linux box for miscellaneous tinkering. It got gutted when I upgraded to my Celery 300A (which of course immediately got overclocked. ) but I got together the necessary parts to resurrect it. When I upgraded to my Athlon 700 it got semi-gutted again so I could set up my celery as a spare pc, but once again, I resurrected the K6 at a later stage. (yeah, I'm attached to it! )

It got used a little bit as a dedicated q2 server at lans, but got retired from that duty when we started playing q3 more regularly (70+ms pings on a 100mbit lan ). It ran as our gateway for a while at my old place, but here my flatmate has a P-100 for that job, so it's now sitting idle (but turned on all the time) and is used for dhcp, http, and ftp at lans.

It is as follows:

K6-200
Asus TX-97 socket 7 mobo
32Meg sdram
2.1gig Maxtor HDD
Rendition Verite V2200
Some old sound card (can't remember what it is - maybe the AWE 64 that it came with)
AOpen 10/100 NIC
NEC 8x CD-ROM
all wrapped up in a KTX desktop case

That case must be the most reliable piece of KTX hardware I've ever seen! It's nice and quiet too, so we don't notice it running (our hubs are louder!)

As far as my main pc goes, the oldest part is most likely my G400 DH. Tho now that I think about it, my secondary hard drive (6.2gig) may beat it by a few months. Outside the case, it would be my keyboard, followed by my 19" CTX (don't know how I ever used it with my 8Meg TNT1! )

[GT98]

Hmm personally most of my old stuff is phased out. But where I work we are running old P90 based systems for our terrain workstations and we have a bunch of DEC OpenVMS based systems running the simluations. That stuff is OLD!

Scott