# What’s the oldest computer you own? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 23, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-oldest-computer-you-own/940648 "2021-04-23T22:29:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-oldest-computer-you-own/940648/3 "2021-04-23T22:38:33Z")
Depends on how you look at it. I have a laptop that I bought probably 4 or 5 years ago. But I also have a full size PC that I built back in college (around 2000ish). Over the years it was upgraded with new hard drives, OS, memory, video cards etc. Nothing special, just kept it up to date. I stopped using it maybe 10 years ago and slowly scrapped it for parts to be used in other computers. I finally tossed it a few weeks ago when I realized that it has no power supply and all the hard drives are on a shelf…somewhere, it wasn’t even really operational at this point. Though I did like it. When I got it, I spent hours cutting a hole in the side of the case, mounting a plexiglass window in it and adding a bunch of LEDs. It looked pretty good and this was loong before I’d ever seen one you could buy like that. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-oldest-computer-you-own/940648)._