What is the slowest computer you ever owned?

[Bjorn_Of_Iceland]

I had a clone IBM 286 (didnt got the clockrate and other specs... didnt know what pc specs were when I was young..) with a monochrome monitor XD. good thing about it is that it came with a 3" floppy drive.. Played test drive 1, 2, GoldenAxe, pacman, alleycat, sokoban, and other oldies lol. It was booting on an ms dos 6.22 from a disk and had no hardrive.

 

[erixx]

386 !!! Still working! (not!, lol)

 

[Towly]

Way back

I had a celeron 233Mhz back in the day the slot 1 type. with 64Mb ram and 2GB hdd space.
Was running Win98.

 

[Bo$$]

pentium 2 machine....

 

[rodneyhchef]

I`v had commodore64 then amiga520(I think that was the model - With 1MB ram ) and then 386 40 MHz and 4 mb ram monster .

There was no amiga 520 computer. 520 was the number assigned to the optional RF modulator (so you could plug your amiga 500/500Plus into a TV without a scart socket), but there was an Atari 520ST (similar to an amiga, but not an amiga) The Amiga 500 Plus had 1Mb of ram.

Believe it or not but a lot of classic arcade games like Street Fighter II ran on ~12MHz boards. Most arcade games that use the JAMMA standard ran on very slow processors. Of course everything was loaded onto ROM chips and there really wasn't a CPU as we think of it today.

I have an Aquarius in the garage. I never owned a Commodore but those things were awesome back in the day even running at 1MHz. They still are really cool to learn about.

The start of affordable computing as I remember it was the glorious 6502 (around 2MHz). Variants of it are still used today. That thing is awesome! If you watch Futurama you'll see there is even one in Bender's brain!

http://spectrum.ieee.org/image/57489

The 6502 is probably the most recognized microprocessor ever amongst those in the know.

My first computer was an original Nintendo. Been an interesting read about the 6502 processor! Basically everything had one! (or a derivative) So I guess that's the slowest computer I've ever owned, but my amiga 1200 felt slower. Damn floppy disks!

My first PC was a P75 o/c'd to 100MHz, Intel 430VX mobo, 32mb SD ram, 2mb cirrus logic video card and a sound blaster 16 clone. Still got this computer today, although everything bar the motherboard has been upgraded. It's now got a 200MHz pentium MMX, 64mb ram, sound blaster awe 32 and a 32mb geforce 2 mx graphics card, just for when I feel the need for a touch of nostalgia (or when I need to look at my old volkswagen car parts catalogue that's incompatible with windows 7)

 

[mordant80]

I miss my XT.. 4.77Mhz of greatness! That bad boy had 640k of ram.. not the half ass 560k like some of them had. I had a CGA video card in that monster with a CGA monitor connected of course. To hell with that monochrome shit. Also had a sweet 1200baud external modem hooked up to call up all the kick ass local BBS'. (Yall remember Xmodem file transfer protocals.. YEEEAAA!) To top it off I added a 40MB Hard drive to that thing. That baby was king of the XT's I'm tellin ya. I played Chuck Yeagers Flight Simulator constantly on that thing.. He's kind of a local hero here ya know.

 

[Jakeman97]

Had a 386SX with a math co-processor, 640K RAM, 10MB Hard Drive, and Windows 3.0 it had two balls of brass to keep it clean, and the whole fr****n jigger was run by steam....so help me god it was!

 

[nailzer]

Atari 400, bought new by me in 1981. Rockwell 6502 processor @ 1.79 MHz, 8k memory. Storage was a miserable, slow, frustrating tape drive.

 

[johnspack]

For me that would be an original IBM PC with an 8088 at 4.77Mhz. Which I quickly upgraded to an NEC V20.. been upgrading ever since!

 

[mstenholm]

NEC V20 FTW. Did the same with mine.

 

[AlienIsGOD]

Slowest my FAMILY had.. Tandy 1000 circa late 80s, in my adult life the slowest I've ever owned was a Celeron D @2.4ghz 256mb cache, 1 Gig generic ram, ATI Radeon 9250 LE 256MB (Later upgraded to X1600 Pro 512MB), and a 80GB IDE Seagate drive.

 

[T3kl0rd]

Surprised at the amount of Amigas listed. My dad gave me his 500 when he got a 2000. We had a Magnavox Odessey 2 for a console. My dad was involved with micro processors before there were screens to view data on.

 

[CDdude55]

What is the slowest computer you ever owned?

I'd assume that the slowest computer someone has ever owned would be the first computer they have owned/used.

 

[ucanmandaa]

Amstrad PC1512. 8mhz 8086 cpu, 512kb ram, 10mb harddisk and a 4 color screen. I played prince of persia to death on that machine.

 

[DaveK]

Slowest I've owned was my last computer. A Dell Dimension 3100 with a 3GHz Pentium 4 with 512MB DDR2 533MHz.

 

[stefanels]

In 96 a Pentium 90Mhz, 32Mb EDO-Ram (4stick 8Mb), integrated graphic (1Mb i think), 540Mb Samsung HDD, and a 15" Tulip monitor... that was my first PC

 

[zno3]

Hmm, interesting
Around 1999, I guess mine was the first generation of Intel Celeron clocked at 400Mhz with 32 MB of RAM and S3 8MB graphic adapter ) I still remember playing Mechwarrior when i was a kid lol

 

[majestic12]

Abacus FTW!

 

[msgclb]

http://www.kidestore.co.uk/images/images_big/melissa_and_doug_abacus.jpg

Abacus FTW!

I knew someone would finally post the slowest computer. I considered posting an image of an abacus but since I've never used one I decided to wait for someone who had.

When I did a Google search I was surprised to find that there were so many different versions of the abacus from around the world. In Japanese, the abacus is called soroban. So majestic12, are you an abacist?

 

[T3kl0rd]

Only a matter of time before someone played the abacus card.

An abacist? I hope that is benign.

 

[_JP_]

Intel Pentium !!! "Coppermine" 800EB 800MHz 256Kb 133MHz Socket 370
128MB 133MHz PC-133 SDRAM
nVidia Vanta TNT2 M64 AGP 4x
Maxtor DiamondMax VL40 20GB 5400rpm 2MB IDE ATA-100
Cheap-ass CDROM reader
Sony 1.44MB Floppy Drive
Matsonic MS7117C Motherbaord (Same as ECS P6BAP-A+)
A-Open 250W PSU
Samtron 75E 17'' CRT Screen
...and it came with Windows Me...

This was my 1st computer...this also was when I got the cash to buy the damn thing...still works...
Before this my dad gave me his PONG TV game system. I have no idea how slow that must have been, but without a doubt the slowest computing machine I have. Other than that, it's this computer.

 

[dj-electric]

086... 11mhz

 

[majestic12]

I had an abacus when I was a lot younger. It looked a lot like the one in my picture (with slightly different colors), but was nothing too special for a kid. I wonder what ever happened to it... it's probably in a landfill somewhere now.

It was only a matter of time before someone had to post it -may as well be me! 0 megahertz of power!