I have these computers:
Normal: working and on frequent use
Bold: working and on occasional use
Italics: condition unknown
Bold + italics: not working
Also including tablets.
Acer Aspire One, dualboot Windows XP/Linux version 6.0.14-oz-pae, distro: Debian?
Gaming laptop of unknown model, Windows 10 (probably an Asus?)
HP laptop of unknown model, Windows 11? Or 10? Not sure, it’s borrowed from work and not used by me but by a roommate
Lenovo Tab M10 Plus 3rd Gen, Android 12
Macintosh of unknown model, Mac OS version unknown
Mac Mini, Mac OS version unknown
Worter tablet of unknown model, Android version unknown (or is it “worker”?)
1980s-90s Macintosh of unknown model, Mac OS(?) version unknown
IBM PC XT, MS-DOS version unknown (suspected 4.0 or 6.22)
PC tower of unknown model, Windows 2000
Alcatel OneTouch, Android version unknown
ZX Spectrum 128K
So yes, I have many old computers, but like most of them I don’t know if they even boot lmao
Also one of my main machines is pretty old…
I count tablets as computers since that’s basically what they are. They have a CPU, storage, an operating system and you can run external programs and do networking. So, it counts as one for me.
By this same logic, smartphones also count, but I don’t include them since I only use them for the “phone” part (because finding dumb phones is near impossible these days).
Also, sorry for doublepost; turns out you can’t edit a previous one to quote a post and link to it.
I have a TRS-80 Color Computer model 2 (and tape drive), and a Commodore 64 (and disk drives). I think these might be a bit too old for my interests, but I ought to play around with them some. In particular the CoCo has a cool processor (the Motorola 6809) which I’ve barely seen in other devices, and it could be fun to program it. I’ve wanted an Amiga (going to blame Sabrina Online for that a little bit) but I think they’re priced way above the amount of enjoyment I would get out of it. Plus I don’t really have space in my house for a bunch of computers?
i have two that i’ll be hanging onto and doing things with in the future:
a powerbook 165c that no one seemed to be paying attention to on eBay. i was pretty surprised when it showed up. it looked like it just sat on a desk and was never used. when i booted it up it looked like it was used in a school setting, most likely by a teacher. i need to get a floppy drive and some diskettes for it and see what System 7 was all about since i haven’t used it since kindergarten on mac clones
the other one is a thinkpad t23 that is in rough shape. i’d like to restore it as much as i can and possibly try some sort of BSD on it. a teacher of mine had a t23 when i was in grade school and it is one of the reasons i got really interested in computers
I bet NetBSD would work reasonably well on the T23.
i also just remembered Haiku OS exists. the t23 just keeps getting more interesting!
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I’ve never tried Haiku OS.
i think i have once or twice briefly. from what i understand it is a continuation of BeOS. i never got to use BeOS but the project seems interesting to me
It is based on BeOS. And BeOS actually had some roots in Apple back in the day. It’s a fairly interesting history.
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I have an Apple ][ Plus that belonged to my grandfather. I think he bought it in about 1984, when I was a baby. It’s the first computer I remember using. My husband and I got it running again a few years ago. It had been sitting in my grandma’s garage for decades!
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Haiku is so fascinating to me. Lots of interesting UI ideas are explored there!
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