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On an internship with the UK defense research agency my job involved the conversion of some ALGOL-68 simulation code into Java. I would be very surprised if the professor for whom I worked was not still hacking away at the ALGOL. No idea how old the machine he used was, but it would be quite happy in a museum...
The oldest computer I use on a regular basis is the ECU in my 1990 Honda Accord. If that doesn't count (and I see no reason why it shouldn't!) then the oldest is probably a server which I think is about 6 years old now.
Non-PC hardware? I don't know; embedded devices all kinda blur together for me.
I left at the beginning of 2005 and it wouldn't surprise me if the Deskpro is still there.
15 years old. It runs Win 95 and is used to build a version of one of our products that stops shipping this summer. It uses a 3rd party control that cannot be installed elsewhere as the vendor has gone out of business and the product has an aggressive anti-copying mechanism. It was the only machine remaining that could build the product (the others died or were upgraded by mistake over the years), and the replacement…
At my first job some extremely expensive piece of spectrometry equipment was controlled by a Compaq Deskpro 386 (c. 1986). I left at the beginning of 2005 and it wouldn't surprise me if the Deskpro is still there.
It looks so out of place sitting on his desk next to his flatscreen.
I think I've had it since since 2001 or 2002.
So 25-30 years old?
My last employer used it plus some custom hardware for checking wire harness assemblies.