What's the oldest disk/disc in your house?

[Col]

The local council are doing this big recycling thing tomorrowfor old electronics, and we have a good collection of old TVs (most of which still work) which need getting rid of.

So mum got me to get all these TVs together and a load of other electrical stuff, a lot of which is perfectly good. It'll all be going down to this recycling event tomorrow but personally I think it'd be better to sell it. At least that way we'd get something back for the effort.

Anyway, in searching around my house for electrical "junk" I came across numerous electrical gizmos from years ago which I recognised. No discs or disks, but that's pretty much what made me think of this topic anyway, because I was rummaging around my dad's old Windows 95 computer which is no longer used with its 75 MHz procesor, 32 MB RAM and 0.79GB hard drive, and remembered my first ever PC games. Descent, Virtual Pool,Worms, Lemmings, Leisure Suit Larry, Quake, Dune, Frontier Elite and Civilisation, all at about age 8. Many of those are actually on CDs but Dune is on four floppy disks or something.

So just out of interest really. What's the oldest disk or disc in your house and what's on it?

[wonderlust]

I have a boxed copy of Wonderland http://www.mobygames.com/game/wonderland

comes on 5.25" floppies

[Aaron]

I probably still have a copy of the Folio word processor for the BBC computer somewhere actually.. I reckon it came out sometime in the late 80s - came on a 5 1/2 inch floppy disk :) No idea of it still works though, or even where it is now :lol:

[marsey99]

not at mine but i have boxed games and software in my mums loft going back to the spectrum and acorn days.

[Hax]

I have Elite on floppy.

I still play Virtual Pool with friends via Hamachi :)

I did load some games onto a hard disk, can't read it though! 5 MB MFM disk I think...

[davidF]

A 30MB 3.5 Seagate full height HDD loaded with Windows for workgroups 3.11. Booted up ok around a year ago. The only remaining part of a complete 286 MSDos based system purchased around 1991.

[Gazanimal]

The ones in my wifes back.

45 years old :)

[wonderlust]

I got an 12" album from 1974 ;)

[pbar]

I might possibly have some floppies from the mid 80's. Good times.

[Marv]

Original Golden axe on a floppy.

Also got 60+ amstrad 464 cassettes.

[pbar]

Original Golden axe on a floppy.



Superb. :)

[Umar]

Someone I know has a 5mb HDD and it's the size of a small cat ...

[.Alan.]

I might possibly have some floppies from the mid 80's. Good times.

You were on floppies in the 80's, flash git.:p

None of you know the meaning of pain unless your sister taped Jason and Kylie on one of your prized C90's.:cry

First disc would've been for the Amiga, so end of 1990.

[pbar]

You were on floppies in the 80's, flash git.:p

None of you know the meaning of pain unless your sister taped Jason and Kylie on one of your prized C90's.:cry

First disc would've been for the Amiga, so end of 1990.

Yes, my days of yuppiedom came and went far too soon.
I was an Amiga guy too.