Here is some old specs for your poweredge I googled up for you.

Solaris X86 Certification Test Report


Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corp
System Model Tested: Poweredge 2100/200
Date of test: Wed Nov 13 03:02:29 1996

Solaris Version: 2.5.1
Driver Update used: DU5

Manufacturer's phone: 512-338-4400
Manufacturer's address: Dell Computer Corp
Manufacturer's address: One Dell Way
Manufacturer's address: Round Rock, TX 78682




System Model Tested: Poweredge 2100/200

System Board:

CPU brand: Intel
Cpu type, speed: PPro 200
Number of CPU's: 1
Number of CPU's online: 1

Main memory size: 128 meg

BIOS Mfgr: Dell

BIOS Vers: A00

System board in Stock configuration?Yes

Certification Suite rev:2.06


System Bus Slots Summary
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Number of EISA slots: 3
Number of PCI slots: 3

System Board Functions
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Parallel IRQ: 7
Parallel DMA: 3
IO start: 378
IO end: 37f

Serial Port COM1
Serial IRQ : 4
Serial addresses : 3f8-3ff
Serial Uart Chip no: 16550 FIFO
Serial Port COM2
Serial IRQ : 3
Serial addresses : 2f8-2ff
Serial Uart Chip no: 16550 FIFO

Floppy Disabled?: No
IRQ: 6
DMA channel: 2

Pointing Device: PS/2
Ptr num buttons: 2

SCSI Disabled?: No
SCSI Chip Mfg: Adaptec
SCSI Chip Model: 7880P
num of SCSI channels: 2
SCSI IRQ: 14
SCSI Memory start: c8000
SCSI IO start: 0f800

Video Disabled?: No
Video Chip Mfg: ATI
Video Chip Model: Mach 64 VT2
Video colors: 256 (8 bit)
Video res: 800x600
Video Mem: 1 MB
Video Memory start: c0000
Video IO start: 0f400

Add-in Cards, Boards, and Adapters
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Add-in Board Vendor: Intel
Model : EtherExpressPro 100B
Board Type: Ethernet
Type: Single I/O
Located in slot num: 1
Bus Type: PCI
Bus Master Board?: Yes

Ether IRQ: 9
Ether IO start: .
Ether IO end : .


Device descriptions
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Disk Manufacturer: Seagate
Disk Model : ST32550N
Disk Interface : SCSI
Disk Capacity : 2 gig

Cdrom Manufacturer: NEC
Cdrom Model: CDR-462

Floppy Drive Manufacturer:TEAC
Floppy Model: FD-235HF
Floppy Unit: A
Floppy size: 3 1/2
Floppy Density: 1.44 Mb

Pointing Device Manufacturer:Microsoft
Pointing Device Model:Mouse Port v 2.0a
Pointing Device buttons:2

 

I know I am dating myself, but I worked on one of the first of the vacuum tube computers, the Univac Model 1. The drum memories were as big as 55 gal. oil drums.

*****I use Internet Explorer and the "Back" button and spellcheck icon (a check mark) have disappeared. Anybody else have that problem or suggestions?
Dono

 

Time to date myself.

First computer I used was in 1969. IBM 1130.
Ah, the days of Alpha-numeric keypunch machines, circuit boards and jumpers, sorters and rooms had to be kept at a chilly 68-70°.
(I don't remember hardly anything about 'em. CRS settin' in.)

Then on to 8088s w/MFM HDDs, 286s, 386-DX40, 486-DX2/80, PIII - 90mhz 733MB HDD, w/8 megs of RAM. RAM was expensive back then (1995). $384 for 8 megs.
Now look at the prices.

 

For the "Back" button, try clicking "View" on the menu or right clicking on the IE tool bar and make sure "Standard Buttons" is checked. The Spell check sounds like a Google tool bar...? If so check under options on the Google tool bar.

good luck

 

Thank you. "Back" is back and so is spellck.
Dono

 

LOL.....I took Computer Programming in 1969-1970. IBM punchcards/Fortran. The "future" was 12 inch disks.

My mother was a secretary for Rohr Aircraft in the early 60s but wanted to be an Engineer as her father was. Took the new computer programming courses at night to get out of the secretarial pool into Stress Analyst/engineering. Worked on Gemini and the early Apollo programs.

RAND "Home Computer" by in the year 2004 (!) as envisioned in 1954.
So much has changed.

 

256 MEG was once considered AWESOME...

I gave up on keeping up. It cannot be done on a reasonable budget.

Sounds like a heckuvva platform to play "The Bards Tale" tho...

Is the monitor EGA???

 

Oops, found out that pic was a hoax. a modification of a submarine console and an early teletype machine that turned into an Urban legend.

Oh, well....here are some early computer bits to look at. I wonder what they would think now?

The first commerical modem....1962 AT&T "Bell 103".....sending a whopping 300 bits per second!

First "mouse" made in 1963 by Douglas Engelbart

In 1971, For $750 you could buy this Kenbak-1 Personal Computer! Supposed to be the first one and with 256 bytes of memory!

I wonder if this 1973 3340 Winchester hard disk by IBM might fit in my HP?

In 1975, this was the first commercial "computer" game!

While living up at the mine, our neighbors had an early cell phone in their truck about 1978. The husband drove a truck for a local contract company when not mining. The horn would go off to notify them a call came in.

But by 1983, we oldsters should remember the Commodore64 Personal Computer with 64k RAM.


All courtesy of "The Computer Geek's History of the Internet" Never know when this kind of "useless" info might be worth a bet.

 

Hummm... & to think I started on Commidor and an Atari...
BIG step up was IBM 8086 with 2 5.25" floppy disk drives & NO HDD Wopping 64k of Mem.
My first HDD was a huge 10 Meg that NO ONE could EVER fill up.

 

That was an "Intel" 8086. I took the 'Machine level language' course on that one and the 8080 and 8080-A. Those were all Intel chips. That was in the 70's, before I ever heard about IBM getting into the small signal devices.
I worked on a Tube type machine that had 8 rows of 8 tubes. Imagine that, 64 Bits of storage. One row was the shift register.
At one time there were over 200 computer manufacturers in the US.

 

the power edge 2100 is a pro 200 mhz machine, it came with a 4.2 gig hard drive. yes it may be scsi! i see scsi everyday as i work on PC's and Sun systems and find SCSI to be quite common.
p.s. i was working on machines back in the CPM/80 days. before the advent of DOS and windows.