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Okay, what's the oldest computer component you own and still use? I realized that it's my computer's joystick, which is a simple two-button one (but still effective) that I bought around 1990 for a 386SX16. Originally got it to play Chuck Yeager's Flight Simulator, then used it constantly through the years for things like Wing Commander, X-Wing and TIE Fighter. Unfortunately, it rarely gets used anymore because of the near-complete lack of any good space fighter sims.
Cartman
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Invert Joystick, you mean. Unless he plays that game with his mouse, too, in which case a rotten aim is probably the least of his concerns.
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Yeah I use the mouse, but I'll start looking for a joystick. Something cheap. Oh and the oldest thing on my PC was my graphics card which I replaced last Friday.
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The oldest component is one of my computers. Hewlett-Packard HP-125. Boeing Surplus. Circa late '70s to early '80s. Computer and monitor integrated in one unit that sounds like a jet engine when I start it up, and an external dual 5.25" floppy drive. No hard drive. And I'm not sure how much system memory it has. I wrote all my school papers on it (graduated from high school in '93), and these days use it to practise writing programs. If I accidentally kill it, I won't be too heartbroken.
I also have the remnants of a Pentium (90MHz) serving as a dedicated firewall.
The oldest component on the computer I'm actually using to type this...? Probably the keyboard itself. *heh*
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The space bar on my keyboard has a big divot from my thumb hitting it several thousand times over the last four or five years. Most of the letters have rubbed off too - except for probably q and z.
Andrew
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Saltah'na
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Yes, and while mesmerized, Saltah'na's ship will fly into the sun.
They don't fly into suns. They blow them up instead.
Mars: this is the joystick I am using. I don't use the Force Feedback joysticks as I heard they break easily, even though Freespace 2 supports force feedback.
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