by "Nibby" (nibby68)
Published 07/06/2017 at 21:18
by "Nibby" (nibby68)
Published 07/06/2017 at 21:18
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Dell Optiplex GX1, just like your elementary/middle/high schools had in the late 90s/early 2000s
Intel Pentium III 500MHz
256MB PC100 RAM
2GB IBM hard drive dated 1996
20GB 7200RPM hard drive
MS-DOS 6.22 + Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on the smaller drive
Windows 95C on the larger one
ATI Rage Pro Turbo 8MB onboard VRAM (has 4MB soldered and 4MB in the SGRAM slot)
Crystal CS4236B onboard
sound
3COM 3C905B-TX onboard ethernet
2xUSB 1.1 ports
PS/2 ports
Parallel port
2xSerial ports
Audio in/out jacks
This is what it looked like from the previous owner. Was much filthier than it looks.
Cleaned up nicely
The rear grille is removable, thankfully. It had a ton of gray gunk and dust
The inside is quite clean as well! So many PCI slots and 2 ISA slots are a nice touch
dual hard drives
System Commander 7 is an awesome utility. This is how I am able to boot between MS-DOS 6.22 on one hard drive and Windows 95 on another.
MS-DOS 6.22 and memory management via QEMM
NSSI system info
Of course it runs DOOM, with sound and music running under MS-DOS!
Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Windows 95
Programs
System info
dat MIDI
dat retro gaming
dat IBM NetVista underneath runs 98SE and is 1GHz Pentium III 256MB RAM 30GB 7200RPM HD 128MB NVIDIA GeForce MX4000 and a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz PCI sound card
"facw" (facw)
07/06/2017 at 21:26, STARS: 0
My parents just found one of the Optiplexs cleaning out their attic. I’m curious what’s on it. I must have grabbed it in college, I think it was like 200MHz Pentium Pro or something.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
07/06/2017 at 21:28, STARS: 0
go check it out!
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
07/06/2017 at 21:29, STARS: 3
One of those entertainment packs had better have Chip’s Challenge.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
07/06/2017 at 21:32, STARS: 1
it does!
"fintail" (fintail)
07/06/2017 at 21:35, STARS: 0
PIII/500, I will guess sometime maybe late 1998. Definitely received some RAM just after the turn of the century. Fascinating that these are fun 20 years later.
"Aremmes" (aremmes)
07/06/2017 at 21:39, STARS: 2
I really liked those Optiplexes back when I did desktop support. They were built like tanks and were so easy to service. The generation after it was nice too, especially the clamshell-cased ones, but for their proprietary motherboard trays and PSU wiring (almost, but not quite ATX).
"itranthelasttimeiparkedit" (itranthelasttimeiparkedit)
07/06/2017 at 21:51, STARS: 0
That is funny how similar the system info panel looked until very recently...
also turtle beach lol, I remember when that stuff came out
"Nibby" (nibby68)
07/06/2017 at 21:52, STARS: 0
Build date is 12/30/1999 according to service tag lookup on Dell’s site
"Nibby" (nibby68)
07/06/2017 at 21:52, STARS: 0
TB is awesome
"Nibby" (nibby68)
07/06/2017 at 21:56, STARS: 0
yeah this one has an ATX plug with nonstandard wiring + a single older style AT plug. The motherboard is proprietary layout too
You could stand on this case and nothing would happen
"Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition" (realasabass)
07/06/2017 at 22:07, STARS: 1
Here is a screenshot of your post with the last version of Firefox to run on Win98SE. Notice the Jalopnik icon in the tab header, artifact left over from old code lol. I know it’s only a VM, but it took quite a bit of work to get that version of Firefox to download. I had to hunt IE 5 then 6, then I could actually somewhat navigate to find a now 8 year old version of Firefox.
"MM54" (mm54mk2)
07/06/2017 at 22:15, STARS: 0
Considering the weight of a good sized CRT monitor, which would likely be sitting on top, I’d hope you could jump on it!
"Nibby" (nibby68)
07/06/2017 at 22:15, STARS: 0
hot, what machine are you running that on?
"fintail" (fintail)
07/06/2017 at 22:16, STARS: 0
Wow, a little off, but I guess a machine used in primary school might not be the highest spec.
I remember buying a cheap computer in spring of 99 - AMD 450 (I think), 32MB (immediately went to 64), 8GB, I think I paid $400 for it. It was sufficient for schoolwork.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
07/06/2017 at 22:28, STARS: 0
Very cool! Sick deal for the time
"jimz" (jimz)
07/06/2017 at 22:47, STARS: 1
get Solaris 7 running on one of those things.
http://web.archive.org/web/20040514132122/http://www.aceshardware.com:80/read.jsp?id=68
"Steve in Manhattan" (blogenfreude01)
07/06/2017 at 22:51, STARS: 0
And now we need a photo of that ...
"Nibby" (nibby68)
07/06/2017 at 22:55, STARS: 1
AUTOEXEC.BAT
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1
SET MTCPCFG=C:\NET\TCP.CFG
LH /L:0;1,272 /S C:\DOS\ENVIMAX N+
LH /L:0;2,45456 /S C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE /X
LH /L:1,6144 C:\DOS\DOSKEY
@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $p$g
PATH C:\WINDOWS;C:\DOS;
SET TEMP=C:\DOS
SET PATH=C:\CRYSTAL;%PATH%;C:\CDROM
C:\WINDOWS\net start
LH /L:0;1,3328 /S MOUSE
LH /L:0;1,6352 /S C:\CDROM\SHCDX33F.COM /D:MSCD000
CONFIG.SYS
SWITCHES /F
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /Q /TESTMEM:OFF /NUMHANDLES=128
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM I=B000-B7FF AUTO NOTR
DOS=HIGH,UMB
BUFFERS=11,0
FILES=50
LASTDRIVE=F
FCBS=1,0
STACKS=0,0
DEVICEHIGH /L:1,12048 =C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
DEVICEHIGH /L:1,11264 =C:\CDROM\VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:MSCD000
DEVICEHIGH /L:1,4560 =C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS
mem /c output
Modules using memory below 1 MB:
Name Total = Conventional + Upper Memory
———— ———————— ———————— ————————
MSDOS 13,501 (13K) 13,501 (13K) 0 (0K)
HIMEM 1,104 (1K) 1,104 (1K) 0 (0K)
EMM386 4,144 (4K) 4,144 (4K) 0 (0K)
COMMAND 2,928 (3K) 2,656 (3K) 272 (0K)
SETVER 512 (1K) 0 (0K) 512 (1K)
VIDE-CDD 5,056 (5K) 0 (0K) 5,056 (5K)
IFSHLP 3,904 (4K) 0 (0K) 3,904 (4K)
DOSKEY 3,968 (4K) 0 (0K) 3,968 (4K)
MOUSE 3,328 (3K) 0 (0K) 3,328 (3K)
SHCDX33F 6,352 (6K) 0 (0K) 6,352 (6K)
SMARTDRV 29,024 (28K) 0 (0K) 29,024 (28K)
Free 674,400 (659K) 633,792 (619K) 40,608 (40K)
Memory Summary:
Type of Memory Total = Used + Free
———————— ————— ————— —————
Conventional 655,360 21,568 633,792
Upper 93,024 52,416 40,608
Reserved 393,216 393,216 0
Extended (XMS)* 65,967,264 2,675,872 63,291,392
———————— ————— ————— —————
Total memory 67,108,864 3,143,072 63,965,792
Total under 1 MB 748,384 73,984 674,400
Total Expanded (EMS) 33,947,648 (33,152K
Free Expanded (EMS)* 33,554,432 (32,768K
* EMM386 is using XMS memory to simulate EMS memory as needed.
Free EMS memory may change as free XMS memory changes.
Largest executable program size 633,776 (619K)
Largest free upper memory block 24,432 (24K)
MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area.
"404 - User No Longer Available" (toni-cipriani)
07/06/2017 at 23:09, STARS: 0
Pentium III? The ones I had back then were Pentium IIs... and they replaced some IBM PS/1 386SXes.
"PS9" (PS9)
07/06/2017 at 23:17, STARS: 0
Now run and beat Dark Souls with it.
"fintail" (fintail)
07/06/2017 at 23:33, STARS: 0
It was built by a local hobbyist who built machines in his spare time.
I remember 8GB seemed amazing, and 32MB was a bit better than my prior 8MB machine. Boot up in under 30 seconds!
"R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet" (r-saldana)
07/06/2017 at 23:48, STARS: 0
Them PCI slots tho....
Miners be like, can I put like 6 1070's or Rx580's in there? Can I install a bigger power supply?
"R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet" (r-saldana)
07/06/2017 at 23:50, STARS: 0
Also this makes me want to play Indiana Jones: The Fate of Atlantis sooo much.
I should make a YouTube series of the OG DOS Indiana Jones games.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
07/07/2017 at 06:36, STARS: 0
Do it
"Nibby" (nibby68)
07/07/2017 at 06:36, STARS: 0
Fuck miners, prices are ridiculous
"jimz" (jimz)
07/07/2017 at 09:41, STARS: 0
no I’m serious, if you can track down a copy of Solaris 7 (Sun used to basically give it to hobbyists for cost of media) it runs great on that era hardware. Then you get to faff with a Real Unix and all the CDE and bare-bones package management you can handle.
"R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet" (r-saldana)
07/07/2017 at 09:59, STARS: 0
If only Intel would have given me more than 8 cores to work with on the z170 platform. I could run the DOS VM off of my workstation instead on a server over rdp.
Threadripper hype continues.....
"R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet" (r-saldana)
07/07/2017 at 10:00, STARS: 0
sighs....
currently mining with 4 x 1080s............
"Nibby" (nibby68)
07/07/2017 at 11:00, STARS: 0
