Dell XPS Pro200N

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Recent pickup from a University of Washington (UW) auction.

This unit is currently equipped with

- A Pentium Pro 200Mhz(!)

- 128MB of EDO memory (max may be higher? Dell only shipped up to 128MB in this unit)

- Two 120GB SSD's. One on each IDE channel (using Startech SATA to IDE adapters)

- Matrox Millennium II 8MB video card

- 3Com 3C950C-TX 10/100 network card

Currently it is installed with Windows 3.11 and "Stampede Linux" 0.90. Stampede is a Pentium processor optimized Linux distribution that derives from Slackware 7

Due to the distribution being end-of-lifed roughly 25 years ago it's likely to be replaced with a "Pentium Optimized Linux from Scratch" at a later date, pending purchase of a video card that contains an accelerated X server (the Matrox Millennium requires the "MGA" kernel driver and did not exist in 2.0/2.2 kernels according to research)


Images of this device also show several (unknown) expansion cards from what ever it was being used for originally. These have been removed after photographing

XPS Pro 200N (front)
XPS Pro 200N (front)
XPS Pro 200N (rear)
PS Pro 200N (rear)