What is your oldest running PC component?

[STEED]

My old Compaq 2110 Win95 I've had for over 10 years and still running and no repairs or upgrades, not bad for a PC that should be in a museum.

And the original monitor as well.

[Sailor Steve]

My PC is pretty much brand new (1 year old now), but I still use my 15-year-old Atari 520ST sometimes.

[bradclark1]

My 19" monitor is at least 5 years old. (I think) I got it with the kick-back for using MSN as my internet provider for 3 years.

[Immacolata]

My 19" Sony Triniton CRT is from february 1999. Thats over 7 years of chugging along. It had to get some... spark thingy... fixed around late 2000 but that was under warranty. I think my US Robotics Courier modem is on 2nd place. Lasted me from 1994 to 1999 untill I got DSL internet. That was 5 years of trusty work. In that period it grew from 21000 bps to 32000 bps to finally "x2" 56000 bps...

Originally Posted by Skybird

Audigy 2, 5 or 6 years.

In your dreams mate. The Audigy 2 came out september 2002 Yours could just be hitting the 4th year.

However, MY old Audigy (1) was installed september 2001. Thats more than 5 years! It works splendid yet with EAX and all things fancy. It seems that all Creative changed from Audigy 1 through Audigy 4 was the software and the price. The drivers are working just fine. First with the X-Fi have they actually bothered to develop new stuff. Oh I still have my Live! somewhere I think... Thats from 1998.

[AG124]

I have a 1.2MB 5.25" Panasonic floppy drive in my P4 - I got it out of an old 8088 or 8086 (not sure) - it is still working and is about 20 years old. It replaced a dead Samsung 5.25 floppy that was from a 15 year old 486 DX. Adds a vintage and nostalgic touch to my 3.0 Ghz P4...

Also, my 3.5" floppy is about 10-11 years old.

I am also still using a Pentium MMX (233 Mhz) that is 11 years old, although it received a new 52x CD-ROM about three or four years ago and a RAM upgrade (from 32 MBs to 256). It is useful for older software, although I usually run that kind of software with DOSBOX now.

I have a lot of older equipment that I never use anymore (I never throw anuthing out). I used a 14" monitor for six years (still working now, but not needed) and an old Canon BJC 4100 Inkjet printer for printing text documents for over 10 years.

[Linton]

I have a boxed Commodore 64 in the loft from circa 1980.It has the tape player plus the original games.On my current system the oldest component is the one who presses the enter button!

[snowsub]

My "A" Drive, it's been in every one of my computers since it was first bought in my P1 166 mHz computi back in '96.

10 years and still going strong

Next after that is my 10gb HDD it's about 5-6 yrs (it's a slave for music)

[Hylander_1314]

Was my old SB PCI 512 soundcard. Got it when they were new tech, and had it through all kinds of driver updates, but it wasn't good for the 7.1 surround sound.

[sonar732]

Originally Posted by Linton

I have a boxed Commodore 64 in the loft from circa 1980.It has the tape player plus the original games.On my current system the oldest component is the one who presses the enter button!

Time to look on eBay for old stuff!