The oldest I have is my Logitech G15 v1 that I modified.
It still works well except for the 3rd program key and the hinges on the LCD screen are severely dieing but still functions and currently typing on it. So Logan, Wendell, Qain, and the others of the great and so lovely people of Tek Syndicate what is the oldest HID/Peripheral you currently own?
I have some IBM rubber dome keyboard that is likely from the mid 90s I got with my first PC, and other than that, nothing.
My family got our first PC in like '03 that was a gift from my aunt/uncle that ran windows 98 and that i soon after bricked because i unknowingly deleted all of the C: drive's content. It took us almost 5 years or so to get another PC after that because my parents had no use or desire for one but I needed it for school. I started a little late on the whole PC thing, other than bricking school PCs and learning how to login to the local PC rather than the PC's network infrastructure,
My family received our first PC in 1999 and it was a Dell XPS containing a Pentium III 500 mhz cartridge cpu, 128 MB of RAM, Nvidia TNT2 video card, and a 12 GB HDD i believe. My dad spent the whole night looking up stuff since that was his first time using the Internet. I was 5 when that happened. I even remember the mouse and boy that was an oddly shaped mouse. It was like I was holding a triangle.
I've got some old 386/486 era parts in my junk box in the closet... but as far as my oldest pc related equipment that's currently in use, my keyboard (G15 v1), third monitor (Gateway fpd2485w), desk speakers (Klipsch 2.1) and wireless headphones are all from 2006 and still going strong. Granted, I had to replace some caps in the monitor, but it only cost me 5 bucks and an hour worth of my time. So no complaints.
Is your G15 modded? When the rubber domes on the keyboard stars to fail, im going to switch to a mechanical keyboard but im going to try and savage the LCD from the G15 and use that as I would on the keyboard. I found a webpage that someone did to make it external from the keyboard.
Ancient Alps key switch keyboard. So old it uses a DIN 5 connector and an AT/XT protocol switch (pics will come this weekend when I'm done with tests)
And a Sun UltraSPARC II clocked at 33.3MHz
Nope, she's stock. I've been thinking about painting it though. There's a couple paint rubs where my palms touch that are a bit of an eye-sore. The blue leds all but dead too, so I've thought about repairing/replacing them as well. Mechanically though, it's still good as new.
I've also thought about salvaging the LCD when I finally retire it (or buying a junk board off e-bay to sacrifice). It's surprisingly useful.
I've go a few pentium II's and III's downstairs but they're dead.
otherwise I use an old Northgate Omnikey101 mechanical keyboard from the 1990s
If you need any help with the leds, pm me. I will be more than happy to help you get the leds to work
Ha that's really old school. I had a DIN to Mini-DIN converter but I lost it now
I have several Logitech K120 rubber dome keyboards lay around. I've used them on various PCs. I like to keep them as spares because they are good, cheap keyboards.
Some of them are absolutely caked in dust. Don't know how old they are.
Gotta love mechanical keyboards.
Wow. Nice deal on monitor.
I love Logitech. That is the company I look to when I'm shopping for keyboards or mice. I want to invest in the Corsair RGB mechanical keyboard when that comes out.
I just wish my keyboard worked. For some reason my motherboard just will not interface with the keyboard but a PS/2 to USB converter will. I blame Gigabyte for poorly made PS/2 interfaces
That'll probably be my next purchase. Colour selection was always Corsair's shortcoming, and they have listened to their customer base. I almost bought a basic CM keyboard before the RGB was announced. I want something to match my selection of Corsair products and the light configuration available on my Mionix Avior 7000 mouse. So the RGB Corsair boards are the perfect fit.
I have a keyboard from a PC my parents bought in '95. I don't really know much about the keyboard itself, to be honest.
The PC, on the other hand (I no longer have it), had an 800x600 monitor (i think), the CPU I think my mom overclocked to 100 Mhz or so, and it had an 800 MB hard drive. Up until probably about 3 or 4 years ago, I'd still use it regularly to play games such as Castle of the Winds, Master of Magic, and Tie Fighter.
That's what bothers me about Corsair. They never have a color that I want
I remember playing Need for Speed on the Dell XPS i stated above. I am having some nostalgia playing some Carbon right now. It's funny how the game didn't support wide-screen and it came out in 2006