Weekend Open Forum: What legacy hardware do you still use?

- Cyrix PR200 desktop. 166MHz and 96MB of EDO RAM in all of its glory.
- PS/2 mice (some optical and some ball) and keyboards. There was a serial port mouse on the Cyris that sadly died a couple months back and got replaced by a USB mouse.
- 52x CD-ROM drive
- HP DeskJet 940c printer hooked up via parallel port. Has a USB cable, though. Printer still runs strong.
- 5.25" floppy drive, though I probably should be backing my media up.

My WHS is powered by a pentium 4 socket 478.

Every PC I have still has a 3.5" floppy drive. I rarely use them but they are cheap so why not, they do come in handy every now and then (small files, BIOS updates, etc.) . I also still have a track ball on my main rig (I've always preferred trackballs to standard mice). My old (now retired) server has a 5.25" floppy and a DDS tape drive in it. I've still got a K6-2 500mhz system that I use for DOS programs every now and then.

I still have an old Dell running Win98se with a Pentium 133mhz, 64MB EDO Ram, 2.5GB hdd, 10/100 Nic, 3.5" floppy, and most importantly... 5.25" floppy. It's used primarily when I have a customer that has 5.25" disks that need data pulled off.

LG dvd rom yup its only a dvd rom cannot even burn dvds.

I have a pair of Audigy IIs. One is a ZS but didn't come with a front plate, oddly enough. I've been through like 5 or 6 systems with them. I have yet to find onboard surround that actually works correctly. Best cards Creative ever made.

In a way isn't VGA legacy nowadays :d

Anyways still using my IDE pioneer slot loading drive. Its slow but its slot loading and was the first ever piece of hardware I modded. I changed the green LED to blue something back then was so rare to see blue leds.

ps2 keyboard. pci sound card all still in use. Until last week lads at work were using a digital camera that used floppy disks (sony mavacia)

My 6-button Microsoft Plug & Play Sidewinder USB game controller from 2001 which I bought for around $16 if memory serves. The thing has fallen on concrete and wooden floors many, many times. Sometimes a button gets stuck here and there usually on the shoulder buttons but nothing a good ol' fashion shake'n spank can't fix. But for functionality, still fully 100% operational.

use still a few ps2 mouses, because they can wake my pc up from hybernation mode which I find most USB powered mouses cant, same to get in to the bios at start up with old PS2 keyboards , wireless mounted keyboards cant do that most of the time.

Ahhhhh, I have one of those as well!
I can't see any reason to get rid of it, things are pretty much the same joystick wise 10 years on.

I basically ended up putting back together my turn of the century PC, and am running Linux on it. And while it has some issue with very large HD video files, it runs very fast, and works very well for basic computing needs.

I use a PS2 keyboard (wireless). I tried a USB one once and it just kept failing, so I went back to the old trusted way and haven't really looked to change yet.

I mean, the keyboard I use still has the same batteries in it that came with it when I bought it (nearly 8 years ago now). It's never let me down.

Hah! I'm using SB Live! 24bit. Reasons? Couse it sounds pretty good.
Also I have ps/2 keyboard (very good gaming washable keyboard) and sometimes HP Jet printer, made in 1996 and pluged to PC with LPT connection.

I was using an original Microsoft Natural keyboard (estimated 10+ years old) with a PS2 connection up until a couple weeks ago. Traded it out only because I saw a sale on a modern Microsoft Natural keyboard with programmable keys

A Dell Optiplex 520 functions as my Linux mess-around box. That's about the oldest PC I've got that still works; not completely a legacy machine as such (I.e. it's not over a decade old, IIRC), but certainly not cutting-edge or mainstream either.

USB 1...yeah I know.

A thread without a troll is so boring so... I have NO legacy hardware cuz I'm 1337! yay me rofl

I have a legacy PC working and running Windows 7x64 Ultimate!

It's an Athlon x64 3000+, with 2gigs of DDR Ram, and a Geforce 6800Gt. Still play games, use internet, and more with it, as it's my parent's house computer!

Since I can't afford a new card at this time I'll be using some old ATI 1900 XTX's. Yeah, they won't run The Old Republic, but they'll run Neverwinter Nights and Diablo II.

There has already been trolls in this thread. Read the part where blu-ray is being considered as legacy hardware. Of course physical media isn't dead. It might seem that way to spoiled city B****** who have 50 mbps download speed or more. Anyway, No legacy hardware here. My setup is pretty new. I don't even own much legacy hardware anymore. Got scared I was becoming a hoarder one day and just went and threw it all away.