What's the oldest piece of software running on your machine?

[MajorMantra]

This is pure time-wasting idle curiousity, but indulge me.

I still use MS Office 97. Since I'm guessing it was released in '96 that makes it a 13 year old piece of software. Can anyone beat that?

By the way, I'm running it on Vista (ugh), before you accuse me of being totally behind the times.

Matthew

 

[trustysteed]

i have a game called Lode Runner from the mid-80's but no applications that old!

 

[Theseus]

I have Oolite, which is an open source version of Elite. Not sure how much of the original code is in there, but a lot of software is built on the back of older code.

For those that are too young, Elite was one of the first really good games, running on a BBC B computer in the 80's

 

[woohoo]

MS DOS cunningly hidden beneath Windows 98 on my "old" games PC

 

[Auntie Helen]

I remember Elite very well Touche, I used to love it!

 

[HLaB]

My PC dates fro around 2001, so it still has Works 2000

 

[beanzontoast]

I have Oolite, which is an open source version of Elite. Not sure how much of the original code is in there, but a lot of software is built on the back of older code.

For those that are too young, Elite was one of the first really good games, running on a BBC B computer in the 80's

Heck yes... and on a Commodore 64 as well, though the Beeb monitor's colour screen was great. Wireframe graphics, limited sound effects, but huge fun avoiding those guided missiles with your ECM, jumping through hyperspace and emerging in the middle of an interplanetary war, buying and selling goods on carefully chosen planets according to industrial scale of development, synchronising the rotation of your spaceship so you could dock at spacestations (darn that letterbox tunnel - scraping sounds ahoy!) and playing chicken with the gravity of planets just for fun...

 

[Night Train]

I still have various Office 97 versions in the background and Photosuite4 (2000?).

As an aside I also have an Amstrad 386 Laptop from the late 80's that is still usable. That is running autocad9 on DOS.

 

[Carwash]

On my machine, 'man unlink' (among others) says that it dates from Version 1 AT&T UNIX (≈1971). The man page itself is dated January 28, 1999 though. Does that count?
(I daresay it's been patched a fair bit since then, but the functionality remains largely unchanged.)

Edit: Conway's Game of Life also dates from 1970.

 

[Jane Smart]

me

 

[gaz]

probably just some random software that hasn't been updated since 2007.

 

[hackbike 666]

I still play Championship Manager 97/98 and sometimes Quake.The first two games I brought for my PC.

Well CM 96/97 actually.

Both progs been patched and updated.

 

[Proto]

Still using Windows for Workgroups 3.1 on a PC at work, dates from about 1993. We use one element of it (Windows Terminal), on a stand alone PC for running text files to and from our CNC machine tools. Works a treat. Later versions of Windows went to Hyperterminal which doesn't work anywhere near as well.

 

[hackbike 666]

I have played the Spectrum Emulator and a game called "United" (1984) which I bought from Boots in Ilford.It was great playing it again.It was a brilliant football game at the time.

 

[TheDoctor]

Manic Miner.