Dell Dimension XPS D333

"Nibby" (nibby68) 05/03/2018 at 11:55 • Filed to: None

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Dell Dimension XPS D333

From 1998... specs are as follows:
Intel Pentium II 333MHz Slot 1 Processor
384MB RAM (max)
3.5" floppy drive
CD-ROM drive
ATI 3D Rage Pro Turbo 8MB AGP video card
3COM 3C905B-TX PCI ethernet card
Turtle Beach Montego Aureal AU8820 A3D PCI sound card
Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 CT4500 ISA sound card
Adaptec 39160 PCI SCSI card
Maxtor 90432D2 4.3GB 5400RPM IDE hard drive
Seagate Barracuda ST32550W 2.15GB 7200RPM 68-pin SCSI hard drive
PS/2 ports
2xUSB 1.1 ports
Parallel port
Serial port
2xGameports
VGA
Audio in/out jacks
Ethernet
Meticulously cleaned inside and out!

dem rear ports... According to the service tag, ship date was August 31, 1998

The guts

Had to get a bit creative with that Seagate SCSI drive since it runs very hot. It should have a fan blowing on it, so I screwed a 92mm fan in the 2nd HD bay.

Close blurry look of the CT4500

dat Barracuda

ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP video card

3COM 3C905B-TX PCI network card

Turtle Beach Montego A3D PCI sound card with Aureal AU8820 chip

Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 CT4500 ISA sound card

Adaptec 39160 SCSI card

Seagate Barracuda ST32550W 2.15GB 7200RPM 68-pin SCSI hard drive

Pretty busy there

This drive is so damn cool.

Maxtor 90432D2 4.3GB 5400RPM IDE hard drive

It’s ALIVE!

Logitech MouseMan+ PS/2 mouse M-CW47

IBM Model M keyboard made by Lexmark part # 52G9658

Boot screen

MS-DOS 6.22 on the SCSI drive

NSSI system info

DOSSHELL

Installing Norton Commander

NC in action

Defragging

What’s a DOS PC without DOOM?

IRC in DOS

Windows for Workgroups 3.11 runs like a charm.

Windows 95 on the IDE drive

AIDA32 system info

Wacko > Nibby 05/03/2018 at 12:09

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you need a 15-17 CRT to get the full 90s effect.

Chariotoflove > Nibby 05/03/2018 at 12:10

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I don’t know why I click on these posts. They always activate my grad school PTSD.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Nibby 05/03/2018 at 12:14

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This brings back memories, not necessarily good ones. Moving past the turbo button era, and getting into PC’s that actually move at a decent clip if you are word processing.

You should load netscape and see if it can internet.

Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > Nibby 05/03/2018 at 12:22

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IDDQD

IDKFA

IDCLIP

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > Nibby 05/03/2018 at 12:38

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Remember the days when motherboards didn’t come with all of the I/O we take for granted, and you had to buy cards in order to properly extend the functionality of your computer?

jimz > Nibby 05/03/2018 at 12:40

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probably aware, but those Dell cases were lightly-modified Palo Alto ATCX cases. Dell removed the ability to convert it from tower to desktop and made a few other changes, but essentially it’s the same case. the Dimension P200s we got my first year of university had basically the same case.

It was on that system where I learned what an incredible piece of junk the Voodoo Rush was.

Nibby > Chariotoflove 05/03/2018 at 13:14

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>:D

Nibby > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 05/03/2018 at 13:15

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it can, barely!

Nibby > Wacko 05/03/2018 at 13:15

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no desk space!

Nibby > winterlegacy, here 'till the end 05/03/2018 at 13:16

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like these things?

Nibby > jimz 05/03/2018 at 13:16

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yeah these cases are awesome! sturdy and well built, easy to maintain and plenty of drive bays

jimz > Nibby 05/03/2018 at 13:21

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a couple of jobs ago, we had a few of these which were the same case set up in the desktop form factor:

Wacko > Nibby 05/03/2018 at 13:27

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can’t live true to the 90s with LCD.

we had no desk space back then. You poser!

Nibby > jimz 05/03/2018 at 13:28

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HP Kayaks were the shit!

jimz > Nibby 05/03/2018 at 13:31

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no joke- when we decommissioned them, I got permission to gut one and upgrade it for use in my lab. I found what was (I think) the last Pentium 4 desktop board on the market which still had ISA slots; which I needed to run three old (but very expensive) ISA analyzer cards.

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > Nibby 05/03/2018 at 14:33

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Holy jesus the ribbon cables.

Prashant Kumar > Nibby 10/05/2020 at 03:03

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