QOTW: What is the oldest component in your PC?

[Jaffo]

Upgraded recently, so my Lian-Li PC-65 case finally bit the dust after 10 years but I'm still rocking the Altec Lansing ACS-295 speakers that came with my first PC (a Dell) in 1998.

Anything older than that - Amiga, C64, Speccy etc has long since gone; I prefer emulators and less clutter!

[voxstream]

Me and a horribly expensive screened mains lead, I'm 64 and the lead is 14 years old.

[mojothejester]

My oldest bits are the monitor and HDD. Both are about 7 years old. Next oldest will be my graphics cards, a pair of gtx 670's. Everything else is less than one or two years old...

[Myss_tree]

In my main PC the oldest component is a Samsung 750GB HDD.

[NikosBond]

My current computer is 7 years old built in 2008, so stop complaining about your "old" systems
AMD Athlon II X3 435 2,9Ghz
4GB DDR2
Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 5670 1GB <--1rst 1gb graphics card!!!!!!

[ik9000]

All of my old PC stuff went to a charity that helps others less fortunate than most of us on here They refurbish them then put them in schools in developing countries like Africa and south America.

Re-purpose old technology helps the enviroment no land fill site dumps

You got a link for that? I sense a garage clear-out coming on.

[NitrousX]

My oldest component is a LG TV/monitor which is 7 year's old

[Spreadie]

Oldest "part" is my Dell 3007.

However, if we're refering to internal components, probably my CPU - 3770K

It could be one of the SSDs though - my Sammy 830 has been in there a good while.

[M4tt]

I've still got an original Sound Blaster Audigy (2001ish?) in my main PC, it has been through a number of motherboard upgrades
In my box of old bits I have a floppy drive from 1990 and a 3DLabs Permedia 2 graphics card from 1996...

[ceejays88]

I still have an IDE 80GB drive in mine.. It has my college work on it. and has been ported from PC to PC even though I left college 9 years ago! haha.. and It hasnt actually been accessed for about 5 years since the last build!

[peterb]

Probably the fuse in the power supply mains lead.

[whatif]

I do have some old punch cards from the mid seventies in a box lying around somewhere under the house (or is it in the attic).
Don't know if they could be called technology, but I suppose they were a input device.
Just no way to use them anymore, and besides who would want to. They were so frustrating.
In my present PC I have a 3M USB 2 cable from the early 2000's, apart from that, the oldest thing actually in my PC would be my remaining 2x Maxtor 160GB sata 1.5Gb/s hdd (I use them for only for a secondary fresh clean load OS, et cetera, back up and turn off as they fitted in a 5.25" rack)

[c12038]

Here you go http://www.computeraid.org/

its a very good charity worthy of some of the Hexus community members to donate old PC stuff if they wish.

[deejayburnout]

I think my oldest part would be a couple of my HDDs. I should really replace them but not done it yet.

[hexuqito]

One of the first coolermaster aluminum cases in 2001 still intact with no scratches, basically unused.I'll built an ITX z170 on it.

[hexuqito]

Something like this
http://www.pcstats.com/articleimages/200305/atc201b_nice.jpg