Those were some good specs back in the day… And the price 😯
So funny story, if this is the first-gen (Blue) Dell XPS, we also bought one similarly spec’d.
Dell shipped it to us and when it arrived, it had 64 MB of ram instead of the 128 MB we ordered it with. Rather than sending us out new ram, they shipped us ANOTHER whole XPS. They never asked for the first back.
The only thing I miss about ZIP drives is that when you are holding one of those huge disks, you feel like a hacker in a 90s movie
That was after computers got significantly cheaper, too. The adjusted prices for PCs in the 80s were insane. My family got an Amiga 3000 in 1990 because my dad had an expense account he could only use for computers and didn’t really need it for work that year… it was something like $4,500 which would be about $10,500 today. Same for his office PS/2, which was just a 486.
That mouser was so comfy (first consumer optical)! You could spin it out, but then again also overclock it.
And not to brag, but I bought (also my third computer) a Celeron 300A at that time & overclocked it from 300 to 450MHz making it the fastest Intel CPU for years. Those were some good days.
Hello fellow overclocker! Got myself the 366 and managed to get it to a consistent 550, 605 with a box fan on it 😂
Damn, what a rush! And a fellow golden-era overclocker.
I couldn’t manage over 500 on my Celeron, I tried the pin-voltage trick but it made no difference.
Also the last time I didn’t really have to worry about cooling - for my next CPU (Thunderbird) I made a custom water block (gramps helped a lot :)).
Awesome! I never got around to water cooling but that was definitely the dream
I repaired about 1000 of these in a single year.
That USR softmodem was an absolute plague.
Can it run Crysis?
I was going to be extremely impressed at the 64 GB of RAM until I realized that said MB.
Such a throwback though, that iomega zip drive was cutting edge.
It’s been 25 years and their invoices look the same
Even back then you had McAfee bloat preinstalled
I have a very similar PC in the kitchen right now. It was my first PC. Pentium II 400, 32MB RAM, AWE64 ISA, DVD Decoder card, etc. That DVD decoder card was definitely an upsell though. That AGP graphics should have been able to do mpeg decoding in hardware.
I remember when we upgraded to a Pentium III and later put an aftermarket Voodoo card in the thing after much begging on my part. That was the first PC I had that felt genuinely “powerful” to me.
I just saved a pair of altec Lansing computer speakers from becoming ewaste at my work. They’re easily 20+ years old but still work decently enough! I just use them to play music when no one else is in the office.
For the kids, this would’ve been a top of the line beefy set-up. I would say in '98 you would find a 1gb hd, a 120 Pentium, and 16mb of ram in a typical home that had a computer.
Remember things upgraded fast back then, by '00 your average Joe would be buying Pentium iii’s with 600mhz and a DVD drive! Woah!
$5778 adjusted for inflation.
2 CD ROMs drives AND a zip drive? This guy fucks
