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What is the oldest and still functioning- Peripheral /USB attached to your PC?

I have an Iomega Zip drive 250Mb, 10Yrs old and some 35 cartridges and it has never let me down [Yet]

They say the life span is 10.000 Hrs! Well I past that a long-long time ago.:D
 
itsme said:
What is the oldest and still functioning- Peripheral /USB attached to your PC?
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Me :D

Probably my Liteon CDRW listed in sig.

Oh, hang on, peripheral?

Microsoft Sidewinder Gamepad, serial connection, daughter's machine, circa '97.

I still have an HP 3200 USB scanner as well, though it's not used anymore, also from '96 or '97.
 
12 Year old gamepad, and it looks brand new! :D I've got a 25 > 15 pin serial adapter that is 21 years old (same age as me!), I don't need it any more, but it came with my first PC which was from 1984 (a really ancient Ollivetti PC).
 
Dot matrix printer

Still got a very old Epson DM printer running, albeit very slowly. Some of the old database systems are easier to configure to the old "Noah's Ark" technologies that new fangled Lasers etc.

Thats doesn't mean I like it though.!
 
well i must say my speakers ... got them in 2000 and about a year ago i blew up the bass! so i just listen to tunes on my hi fi now until i get a new set :p ...

It was my printer before hand but that broke !! :(
 
The keyboard for my Mac SE, the whole machine is still going well after almost eighteen years.
Got one of those big floppy drives in the Pentium 2, the drive must be about fourteen years old, still goes too.
 
G~MAN said:
well i must say my speakers ... got them in 2000 and about a year ago i blew up the bass! so i just listen to tunes on my hi fi now until i get a new set :p ...

It was my printer before hand but that broke !! :(
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how did you blow the bass? just by having it turned up too high for too long?
 
Does my 6 GB Quantom Fireball Hardrive count... I took it out of a Gateway 2000 pc,, I beleive the drive was manufactored in very early 1990's(pc came with windows '95)... right now it in in my external enclosure until my 320gb gets RMAed. It works great... holding 6GB of music..
 
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