30 years old, and in perfect condition

Sorry for my lack of knowledge, but what is it? A motherboard is my guess ._.

i'll tell them that you make laugh of their pc's. calling

That rig is beyond my time.

The power of vintage, i alread see my share of those, they are almost new but only a litle 20 years late...

thats why it lasted 30 years....(OMG Thats F*cking too much for a computer like this......[Its not a server or staff like that..])

hmmmmm....maybe they didnt use it that much......

For a second there, I thought this was going to be a birthday thread. :/

ISA ports =')

Low-tech is made to last...

When the machines take over, we'll need old tech like this that they don't have the proper connectors for any more.

It can be sold for a nice amount on eBay. Retro collectors pay for that stuff. And they wanted to recycle it...

The next pic needs to be titled,"i486 overclocked to the max!".

Was it in a bank office?

I like it when I see other people taking care of their things and not fuckin them up like a 15 years old spoiled little kid.

What OS did they use?

I kept my 486 since childhood I still used from time to time just for fun (I played Flashback, Aces of the Pacific, Dawn Patrol, Heroes of the 357th and Veil of Darkness). I had to scrap it a year ago when I moved, and it was still working. I kept only the processor and the hdd :'(

RAM sticks look too small for a 30-year-old computer. This is what RAM in a 80286 looked like. Granted, I'm working off childhood memories, but the little dinky RAM sticks in there look a lot closer to the 486 we had when I was in 8th or 9th grade in the mid-90s, than the 8086 and 286 we had before I started school, and when I was in grade school in the mid-to-late 80's, and early 90s. Which isn't to say the computer still isn't a very old computer.

That said, my childhood memories included taking apart and putting together the old computers. My dad killed the 8086 when he got an entire megabyte of RAM onto it. I don't know if it fried something on the motherboard and made it so it wouldn't support a new hard disk, or if a new hard disk (after the one was fried) just wasn't cost effective, so by the time I was in 4th or 5th grade, the computer was mine and part of it being mine meant a lot of learning about the pieces and the limitations, and boot disks and why the hard drive didn't work, etc. Later, when I was in high school, I was taking pieces of old computers and putting them together to make a new (for me) computer, and the RAM in your picture looks a lot more like the RAM from high school computers than the RAM from 4th or 5th grade computer.

I had tons of old PCs like this that I threw out when I moved. They worked fine, but really what was I going to do with them.

Also judging from the 30-pin simms in the upper left this PC is more like 20 years old, not 30. I bet if I searched my hardware archives I would still find a bunch of 30-pin simms and a few ISA cards. Ah those were the days.

I was not even born 30 years ago, I had no idea no idea that RAM in older PC's were that big.

I am 30 years old :) I'm fine xD

Well, something tells me that piece of equipment goes to a museum and not recycling.

I bet it'll run Windows 8 like a boss :)

Wonder if it was being used for all of those 30 years :P

wish i could say the same about me.