Mid-late 90s computer labs.

"Nibby" (nibby68) 12/23/2014 at 09:32 • Filed to: None

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Optiplex + Windows 95 or 98. <3

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Nibby 12/23/2014 at 09:47

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FLAT CRT?! What are you, some kind of aristo?

KatzManDu > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/23/2014 at 09:48

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Needs more 386/SX based PS/2s. :)

Oh! Wait. Kinja and Google Image Search are not liking one another :(

wkiernan > Nibby 12/23/2014 at 09:50

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Oh wow, I had an Optiplex that looked like that, I think it was a 100 MHz Pentium, that I bought for $100, put Linux v.2.1 and two ethernet cards in, and used as a router/gateway for three or four years. The only time I ever restarted it was when the power went off at my house for so long that the UPS battery went dead. This was way back when you couldn't just buy something like that off the shelf at Office Depot.

Nibby > wkiernan 12/23/2014 at 09:56

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\o/

OPTIPLEX ALL THE THINGS

spanfucker retire bitch > Nibby 12/23/2014 at 10:00

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Give it another 10 seconds; it'll crash.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > KatzManDu 12/23/2014 at 10:05

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Our first computer was some kind of 286 that I don't remember the details of, which was replaced by a 286 clone that got upgraded to an overclocked 486 - I think it was an SX 33Mhz that had been overclocked to ~40. Around that time, we had for a brief while a common unit Compaq - kind of like a PS/1, but a 386 with color screen and built in floppy.

(PS/1 shown, since it was apparently too obscure a Compaq for me to even find)

Boxer_4 > Nibby 12/23/2014 at 10:07

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A friend of mine has a collection of those Optiplexes (3 desktops and a tower). The tower cases are some of the nicest that Dell has used, in my opinion.

My aunt and my grandparents had monitors like that with their XPS T500s, the UltraScan M991. They were basically Sony Trinitron CRTs, and were very nice as a result.

BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > Nibby 12/23/2014 at 10:12

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That's awesome, but right now I'm in love with my brand new XPS8700 SE... This thing's so powerful it's scary :D

Nibbles > Nibby 12/23/2014 at 10:13

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My lab in high school was made up of OptiPlexes. GXa or GX1 models I believe. We had one set up as a dedicated Quake II deathmatch server

Tapas > Nibby 12/23/2014 at 10:14

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This has got me reminiscing :)

JEM > Nibby 12/23/2014 at 10:17

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Ours looked more like this with DECstations:

Nibby > JEM 12/23/2014 at 10:18

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HOT

Nibby > Nibbles 12/23/2014 at 10:19

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GX1s FTW

Nibby > Boxer_4 12/23/2014 at 10:19

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We had XPS T series too!

Nibby > BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion 12/23/2014 at 10:19

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Nice! But, SSD?

BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > Nibby 12/23/2014 at 11:26

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Yeah... It was the only option available, even though I've seen lots of people who dislike SSDs. I don't really know how they compare to HDDs, other than that they're supposedly more expensive, have less space, but run faster. Since I never even got close to filling up the 500 gb on my old Dell, I figured I might not much more than 1 tb anyways, so I decided to give it a shot.

Axial > Nibby 12/23/2014 at 14:42

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My school's computer labs had these:

ranwhenparked > Nibby 12/23/2014 at 16:08

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I remember in the mid-90s when my school switched from Apple ]['s to Power Mac 5000s. By the time I got to high school, the lab was full of "Baseline" computers, a brand I've never encountered again. The logo was a knight chess piece.