[bigtomrodney]

Well it'd be difficult for me to answer this question. It reminds me of Only Fools and Horses where Trigger says "I've had this same brush since the day I started. It's only had 5 new heads and 4 new handles"

I started out with a Compaq ML330 rig about 3-4 years ago. It was a PIII Coppermine with 256MB of RAM and was upgraded with 1GB of RAM, SATA card, 4 HDDs , DVD writers and bluetooth. So it was a monster with a peabrain basically. It's been through all sort of changes since then, P4 mobo, new Antec case etc.

Now it's a Quad Core, 2GB of RAM, 2x320GB HDDs, nVidia 8600GT. The DVD writers and bluetooth have survived from the first upgrade but there isn't a trace of that original ML330 in there and I still consider it to be the same PC

[fingal]

Mine's around 4 years old and was a 'self build' project. It's a low spec machine now, but still does the job.

I can see that some applications are quite 'memory hungry', but I don't do anything very intensive on it apart from using the web, chatting, email etc. It would be great to run a monster PC, but I don't have a good enough reason to try that.

I reckon this one could run for another 2 years... Then it's time to get the screwdriver and anti-static wrist band out again.

[valan]

The only computer I own currently is this Dell Inspiron 1420n I just bought a few months ago. Nice laptop, too. But about 2 years ago, before I joined the Army, my main computer was a p2 400mhz, but I used my 20 mhz 486 often enough for mudding and irc. They both ran LFS better than this laptop ran Ubuntu before I got too sick of Ubuntu and decided to go with Arch. So what if it took 2 months (literally) of non stop compiling to build LFS on the 486. Had fun building glibc, it kept running out of memory. It was worth it to see a 50x speed increase over anything else that box could run. What a great box that was, even had the old ISA 2mb video card in it.

[multios]

Well, depending on what you mean, I was on my Commodore 64/128 last night.
It sits on the table and is used quite often. Or perhaps, my Amiga that I used 2 days ago
Right now, I'm on my fastest pc that i just repaired yesterday afternoon: 1.2 ghz with 2 hd's.
I am a CBM fanatic. Love em.

[usamamuneeb]

Well, I was just proud of my Toshiba PIII (450 MHz) which I purshased in 2002. It just got overconfident and its VGA card failed. Still I managed to clean that part and its fine now. So its a fact that Old is Gold.

[The O'Really Factor]

The machine that I actually own was a computer that I built myself. I built it almost 2 years ago now and that was for gaming. It was a pretty good machine but now is not exactly the beast that it used to be. The specs are:

Motherboard: ASUS P5GL-MX
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz (I use a lot of monitoring and benchmarking programs and they all say it's dual core, but I'm not so sure about that one.)
RAM: 1GB PC-3200 (single channel; was going to expand but never got around to it)
Video Card: ASUS GeForce 6600 256MB

I currently am running Debian on one hard drive and Windows on another.

I'm going to build a new computer (hopefully soon), so that this will become the family computer instead of the "gaming rig".

As for the oldest computer that actually isn't mine, it's an eMachine with something like 64MB of RAM, 8MB Voodoo video card, and a 500MHz pentium 2 (or three?) slot processor. It also says "Never Obsolete" on the front of it :P