Slowest Computer You've Used

[SolidSnakeUS]

What is the slowest computer you have ever used in your lifetime? For me, it was a Magnavox 16MHz computer, had the greatest game of the original Hoyle Poker on it.

 

[MiNiMaL_sAnItY]

It was an assembeled pentium 2 pc running at 350mhz. I stilll have it. I now use it mainly for testing linux distros.

 

[SpaceMonkeyDave]

a good ol bbc computer
or my mates computer you wouldent even want to belive how much spyware that ad-aware picked up on that :shock:

 

[Aleman]

The Apple II we had to use in grade school. Actually, my Dad had one of the original Macintosh computers and I grew up with it in my bedroom. He took out a mortgage to pay for it :shock:

 

[wotter]

AMD 333 mhz with 32 mb ram, took ages just to load a city in simcity3k.

 

[NationStater]

486 XDX2 100mzh, 32mb ram, 2gig HDD, 4mb video card ( almost a foot long)

Thing was a beast, I still have it running. And play all my old games that dont like XP on it.

 

[Hunnter]

The actual slowest computer ive used (clock speed wise) was probably 620Mhz

But the "slowest" running computer i used was a 2.6Ghz Dell we had in secondary school (high school)
This thing ran SLOWER than my 620MHz cause there was SO much crap on them scanning like mad... >_<
But my 620 was pretty damn decent anyway, was especially good for numbers.
But it died... *moments silence*

Now i have a 2.86GHz (variable at that, smartchip ) Toshiba.
Runs nicely, still miss the 620 though
And the hard drive that ive still not taken in to recover anything i can from it when it broke

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

I am really waiting for someone to actually top mine. I mean, I first used that 16MHz computer when I was 3, and now I am 19 years old, it's still working and out in the barn.

 

[MiThRaZoR]

Slowest computer?

400Mhz, 32MB RAM, and a 80 degree piece of plastic...

Just glad it has a 2x CD reader. :lol:

 

[KingJordan]

My dad is a big Goodwill shopper, so he found some old ass comp. there. I played solitare on it once, then I broke the keyboard in half for the hell of it. My dad was mad :evil:

 

[REDplaya63]

Cant really remember but it was a Compaq Celeron. LOL it took about 20 minutes to start up :lol:

 

[Varsh]

I am really waiting for someone to actually top mine. I mean, I first used that 16MHz computer when I was 3, and now I am 19 years old, it's still working and out in the barn.

Dave topped it, BBC Micro/Master ran at 2MHz.

My first comp (and still use nostalgically) was the Acorn Electron, 1MHz and 32k base memory...now THAT'S slow!

 

[Evil_the_Cat]

The first one I used was my mom's work computer, I's be damned if I could remember anything about it except for the fact that it was big and could only play a Tetris-kind-of-game. Now this would have been about 16 years ago...ah memories.

This is the first computer that I've owned:

Good ole Macintosh LC

:lol: Just look at the specs:

16 Mhz CPU
256 KB VRAM
2MB RAM :lol:

 

[guybrush]

My friend had a P75 which 4 of us played Championship manager 2 on - it took about 25 minutes to load between games and was absolute hell. In 11 hours we only got through about 10 games each

 

[Firewarrior]

Lol at College pentium 2 with 64Ram :shock: even the internet was slow Sad!

 

[justsayin]

I had a Commodore 64. 1Mhz processor and 64KB of ram.

 

[Fallout Boy]

It would probably be a toss up between an IBM XT(5160) which had a 4.7mhz CPU or a Commodore 64

I have programmed a motorolla 88100 cpu using assembly for uni, that was pretty interesting.

 

[Jugix]

My first computer was C-64 which I used for games and simple coding. If my memory serves me well I think it had 1MHz 6502 processor. Atleast later on C128 introduced a CPU chip which could clock up to 2MHz and it was fast! 8)

 

[WhatRuOn]

IBM PS/2 complete with 5 1/4" floppy, and 20 mhz processor. :shock: Now that's speed!

 

[dbakerstl]

I used to setup model 30 PS2 with linux on them Dunno why, but it was fun i guess...

Model 50-286 10mhz with 16MB memory adapter card.

had a MCA network card in it hehe.


MCA bus was awesome for the time!... and well didnt last too long

MCA
Short for Micro Channel Architecture, MCA was introduced by IBM in 1987. MCA, or the Micro Channel bus, was a competition for ISA bus. The MCA bus offered several additional features over the ISA such as a 32-bit bus (although there was also a 16-bit bus), automatically configure cards (similar to what Plug and Play is today), and bus mastering for greater efficiency.

http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/m/mca.htm

 

[shenava]

My first computer was the slowest one I owned a Sinclair Spectrum zx 2. AKA Speccy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ZX_Spectrum_Plus2.jpeg

3.5 Mhz
128kB ram
32kB ROM
Built in tape drive.


Slowest computer I have used is the BBC that somehow got in to schools. At least it taught me BASIC. :roll:

 

[HypnoticPoison]

Lol, some of you have got me beat by pretty far. I vaguely remember when I was a little kid that my father had a 20mhz desktop than ran on freakin’ Dos, not even Windows. It was from some “economy” brand that went out of business in the early 90s and it would run so hot that it would lock up in the summer if we didn’t have the AC on. He eventually had to buy an upgrade when the cheap, glued-on power supply fell on the motherboard. :lol:

 

[Ramza]

Well I was sure I was going to win this one but shenava came in with a 3.5MHz, not to mention those C-64 people.

My slowest computer:
5MHz 8086
64kB RAM
64kB ROM
16 bit LED port
4x5 (20 key) matrix keypad
20x4 character LCD screen

I assembled (via hundreds of wire wraps) and coded the ROM for this bad boy last semester in my Computer Design class. The only thing this beast can do is dump/edit its own RAM, and display pretty flashing lights on the LEDs

I guess it isn't the slowest processor in the thread but it is probably the most useless computer.

 

[Ridge Racer]

Mine was my first computer which I bought about 10 years ago. It was a 400 mghz, Pentium II with only 12 gigs of hard drive space. The video card was crap and when I bought it it only had a floppy and a cd rom. No cdr, dvdr, dvd rom, nothing. It still exists. Every time you turn it on it takes about 15 minutes to actually be workable. :lol: Luckily I have a much better one now. D

 

[Fallout Boy]

Mine was my first computer which I bought about 10 years ago. It was a 400 mghz, Pentium II with only 12 gigs of hard drive space. The video card was crap and when I bought it it only had a floppy and a cd rom. No cdr, dvdr, dvd rom, nothing. It still exists. Every time you turn it on it takes about 15 minutes to actually be workable. :lol: Luckily I have a much better one now. D

You should try installing the linux distro 'damn small linux' on it. Its really good for retro hardware, through in another hard drive and a network card(if it needs one) and you have yourself a really cheap fileserver.

 

[Steroyd]

This computer i'm using now... actually the PC i had before this was your conventional DOS computer but that went... faster than what the PC i'm using now so it was a major upgrade, which can't live in todays world.

I miss the days of DOS complex yet straight to the point.

 

[Ridge Racer]

You mean those old Tandy's with the big ole 5 1/2" floppy discs? :lol:

 

[Jugix]

I wonder how this thread looks in 20 years to the future. This is prolly a PS7 forums and responds are probably like this:"I remember my dad had this game console with linux. It had 0.0032THz CPU and 0.000512TB of memory! And that was fast! :lol: "

 

[Steroyd]

You mean those old Tandy's with the big ole 5 1/2" floppy discs? :lol:

lol i remember those not quite my generation i was born into the techno land of small floppy's. :lol:

Although i do remember some ancient black keyboard that had keys that stuck out like a miniturised Type writter.

 

[Crazy Phat]

My cousin's custom made PC. It was the ugliest thing that I had ever seen. Was extremely slow. So so in fact, it took and hour to load up Firefox and 2 days to download a 10 second video.