Model of Dell's Information Age PCs

SimonTemplar · 23-02-2014 01:42AM #1

Does anyone know the model of the PCs that were given to households in Ennis as part of the Information Age competition back in 1999? I would be interested to compare their specs against modern PCs

Thanks.

dmc17 · 23-02-2014 10:51AM

If I was to guess, I'd say something like a Dell Optiplex Gxi?

Johnboy1951 · 23-02-2014 11:16AM

I'm not certain, but the only model I noticed with a friend was a Fujitsu I think ...... which was quite weak, even for the time.

Mr. G · 23-02-2014 11:34AM

http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/places/infoage/1xmas.htm

Back in the day when ISDN was seen as High-Speed

How times have changed.

jbkenn · 23-02-2014 12:08PM

Dell Optiplex GX1 266Mhz/350Mhz
Spec here
http://www.jklmicro.com/images/products/OptiplexGX1.PDF

Clareman · 23-02-2014 09:01PM

They were a GX1, if I remember correctly they had a 2gb hard drive, 64 meg RAM and a 266mhz processor, my in laws still have 1 in their house. They were a great thing for the town at the time but they weren't the highest spec'd machines ever.

squonk · 24-02-2014 10:21AM

It'd have been a just slightly low-mid range spec at the time. Not particulary bad but not amazing either. Relatively decent though considering a whole town got them!

Akrasia · 24-02-2014 11:41AM

Anyone still have their visa cashcard?
4 minutes at the till to buy a mars bar. Those were the days

Clareman · 24-02-2014 12:14PM

I still have 1 of the readers, it's a keyring that I use for the shed lock

Clareman · 24-02-2014 01:03PM

Regarding the PCs, they were a fairly decent office/business PC, there was an issue if you wanted to upgrade the graphics or audio however as there wasn't much space in the box. Also, I remember a storm knocked out a load of modems around town, I spent weeks replacing modems for people.

Shapey Fiend · 27-02-2014 04:07PM

Think Clareman has the right idea there, although I think the one I got only had 32mb ram and I'd to upgrade it. Later on some people had 64 and larger harddrives than 2gig.

Think the main annoyance with mine was it had a 33k modem, which weren't really very commonplace in 1999.

Clareman · 27-02-2014 04:23PM

I think at the very end people got better spec'd machines but Dell tried to make them all the same, I remember running fdisk on a drive and finding that it was a lot bigger than 2gigs but it was just partitioned smaller.

Model of Dell's Information Age PCs

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