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What is your oldest PC component/peripheral that you still use today

Altec Lansing MX5021 for almost 20 years.

Original board/amp blew. Had to replace it with an aftermarket amp (with EQ and BT). Satellite speakers cones are torn and sub can't provide the full power (it rattles, but EQ helps), but they're still good for movies and a some music.
 
Chieftek case (1E0-500A-CT04)
Fk 2000 plus keyboard (1990)
Ibm t60 and Dell D600 for eeprom, flashing, car diag,
And i still using Belinea 19" lcd (2004) for my test rig.
 
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I would have to say it's my monitor, 7yrs old maybe. Honestly cant remember but I'm certain it's older than my keyboard, which would be next on the list :/

It still does the job quite nicely tho. I don't see myself replacing it anytime soon. Hehe.
 
Didn't know they sold Packard Bell products in US.
Purchased that system back in the mid 90's. Something like that.
It still has an ole dial-up card in it. :p
 
Now that I recall, at work I still have to deal from times to times with an old IBM ThinkPad 560. Windows 95 and all. Little bugger is quite probably as old as myself.
 
The oldest thing I use in my main setup is an IBM Model M keyboard made in 1993. Though I haven't had it anywhere near as long (I wasn't even born yet), first I used it sometime in the mid to late 2000s and since 2018 as my main keyboard
 
Mine would be my Dell UltraSharp U2410 monitor which, checking the little pull out tab thing, has a manufacture date of August 2009 and is revision A00. Anyone familiar with this monitor may recall the original revisions had some flaws.

One of them is that most preset modes lean Pink-ish in hue. The Adobe RGB, sRGB, and custom modes are unaffected by it. I remember this being a common complaint with this Dell monitor (and maybe others that used the same LG IPS panel?) around that time.

Adobe RGB and custom result in wide gamut, and when you don't need it (I don't), that can come with its own headaches, but they have no inherent issues other than the color being "wrong".

sRGB seems to be the solution, then? It would be, but unfortunately sRGB mode had its own flaw in this revision where darker color tones were dithered, and that kills it for me. Later revisions supposedly fixed this. So I'm forced to use Adobe RGB or custom.

These were high quality IPS panels for the times, although the overly aggressive matte AG coating took a while to get used to (I wish it were there, mind you, because glossy displays bother me more, but I wish it were less). It's also only 60 Hz, but that aside, it's still nice enough. Funny thing is I don't care about being limited to 60 Hz in games. I just want the higher refresh for the desktop environment.

I'm going to miss 16:10 when I have to replace it. I wish Dell kept the 1600p 27" panel from last year around (but if I went with that, it would still limit me to 60 Hz).

No idea how it's still bright enough since that's supposed to be of the big aging results of these older CCFL backlit displays. I can't have it over 50% or it seems too bright unless a lot of ambient light from a sunny day is flooding the room. It's seen heavy use throughout its ~15 years but it seems bright enough.

It has its quirks, and flaws even, but if it's lasted this long as my daily use display, I guess that says something? Whether that something is "it's pretty good" or "I'm a sadist and tolerate a lot" is up to you. Given the state of my keyboard and speakers (both around 9 to 13 years old themselves), perhaps more of the latter than I want to admit. But both of them are Logitech and for whatever reason, I have had awful and consistent results with their stuff not lasting. Their support is the only reason I consider them at all anymore. I'm slightly concerned about the day I'll have to replace the display in particular. I know displays have gotten better but I'm quite picky about some things and finding the perfect one always seems to be a chore.
 
nobody noticed my uptime on my laptop :(
 
This thing I picked up from NCIX for $5 over a decade ago from the discount bin

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It sounds as poor as it looks, but I use headphones when I care about sound quality
 
my good old sandisk 8GB usb thumbdrive exclusively for flashing bioses. should be 14 years old now.
 
probably the HTPC

Think it has a 780G amd chipset and a dual core x2 ddr3 I think? Built it before I moved so 11+ years ago?
 
1st rig , case TT vIEW 37 ARGB
 
This thing I picked up from NCIX for $5 over a decade ago from the discount bin

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It sounds as poor as it looks, but I use headphones when I care about sound quality
NCIX, now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
 
Fk 2000 plus keyboard (1990)
It lacks the Windows 95 key, correct? Just like my Key Tronic KT 2000. I remapped Windows Explorer to Alt-Ctrl-Shift-E, now I'm fine.
 
Mine would be my Dell UltraSharp U2410 monitor
Oldell Oldtrasharp 2407WFP and 2405FPW here. Both have Samsung S-PVA panels, and CCFL is holding up quite well. The 2407 has brightness at 0%, and at that setting it has more black crush than I would like. The 2405 is at 30% and is fine for some photo work. I'm not very demanding, I just want a nice uniform grey scale with no colour hues anywhere, which the 2405 can do.
 
Pentium II 400 Mhz build using NOS and used parts I found over the last few years. Fully operational Geforce 2 GTS 32MB AGP + SBLive! running Windows 95 OSR2.
 

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functioning?

i still have a 320gb hdd from 2010, still holds data and performs nicely.
 
Old IBM SCSI-HDD from 18GB still used in an old rig and Adaptec PCI card. Works at 7200RPM, from the year 1999.

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Old Adaptec card still used and 100 percent works with this HDD.

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Probably my Samsung 840 Pro 256GB which I bought used like 7 years ago.

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edit: That's a component I use daily as it's still on my main PC. I have older stuff in other machines which I use from time to time though.
 
In terms of peripherals, the oldest one connected to my main system is the 2002 KODA/GoldSky AM911 speaker set, followed by the 2007 Logitech Cordless Desktop Wave M+K combo.

Component wise, my backup FX rig -- which I use daily -- is from 2012, including the CPU, GPU and the HDD.

I do have a bunch of true retro systems that see occasional use, like this Celeron D 326 (Prescott) machine from 2004 running Win7. The one I'm posting from :D

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Still got my HD752LJ from my first computer in my case

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I could also say that my laptop is pretty old. "The ThinkPad Edge E540 was released in 2013"

I'll get an i7-4702MQ & 16GB RAM to give some life support. Currently has a 2c/4t i5 & 8GB, yet still fine for basic usage and older games. Posting this with the oldiePad.
 
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