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Actually, you can use almost any floppy in those Dell machines. The release bar is designed for multiple ones. You just have to pull the face plate off.

The Gs range was the low-end office desktops at the time. Fully integrated as you see, and a very simple tool-less design. They're really quick to service, and not much goes wrong with them. I worked at Dell's tech support in the 90s, I've seen these a lot.

Fun fact: The GS is the first OptiPlex to use that Dell case design, and the last is the GX200. Every OptiPlex system between those two has swappable motherboards, PCI/ISA risers, power supplies, and small form factor/low profile/desktop/mini tower cases; they're all interchangeable without modification. It was Dell's first truly unified business PC architecture, and Dell won more than a couple dozen awards for it.

Loved the Optiplex G series PCs back in the late 90's and 2000's. They were always very reliable for us. We'd set up classrooms full of them, install Nvidia 3d cards, and play Unreal Tournament for team building. Used to manage a large IT shop, and they were always favorites. Paired with nice Sony Trinitrons (had hundreds of them) and Dell's rebadged speakers with Subs.

I clearly remember working on this specific Dell model back in the early/mid 90'. I was a midrange system developer using Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Access and even developing web pages using Microsoft FrontPage. This brings back many good memories but also a few software frustrations amongst the mutch hated TokenRing network (super slow)

Perhaps that hard drive caddy is not faulty. Some of them have a switch in the keylock, so when it's closed the drive receives power, and when it's opened the drive remains powered off. Yours has the keylock in the opened position (otherwise you couldn't remove the drive), it would be curious to see if by closing it the drive would finally turn on.

If I remember correctly, you need the key of the external enclosure to lock the drive (physically) and it will power up the hard drive at this time ! :) Thanks for this nice video !

The lock of the hard drive caddy could act as a power switch so if someone would try to remove the HDD while the PC is running it would at least spin down before it gets yanked out. ;)

About that HDD enclosure, I had few that only powered the HDD when the key was on lock position; also had some that had the tray lever push a switch to power the HDD when it was fully inserted and also had one that had a regular switch. You may check the configuration on that specific model you have there. However, the HDD seemed to not be powered as the LED status was not lit up on boot.

That big unpopulated area looks more like a place for optional network adapter (judging by NICRST jumper and fooprint for Ethernet magnetics). The smaller unpopulated chip might be for audio though.

It is fascinating to see one of these again. When I was in elementary school (in the early 90s) my school bought a bunch of new Macintosh LCII’s and one LC575 (used for reference materials in the library) so a lot of my experience outside of home was with Macs (we had a 486DX 25MHz at home) When I went to middle school (in the mid 90s) the students used mostly older Macs (many different versions of the old black and white all in one form factor), but all the staff used these Dell Optiplex. They looked different than the rectangular PCs that were common at the time.

love how these all slot together with minimal tools... they were great to work on back in the day

I have recently been working on a bunch of similar machines from Dell, all in the same case style. Pretty nice computers for retro purposes in a very practical form factor. One great thing is that many of them had integrated network cards, more or less a 3Com 905b and not to bad integrated audio. The early ones even has Soundblaster 16 Vibra and OPL3 on the motherboard.

Always loved the shape of these Dells with the gently curved top. I like the design of the badge and the raised circle around the buttons. Very nice.

I don't know why, but I have always loved that generation of optiplex. Maybe because I grew up using a 386 with windows 3.1 while these at my school with pentium 2 and 3 and windows 98. But for mid-late 90s design I think it is great

I've had quite a few Optiplex computers back in the day. Simple and streamlined design language that helped me learn a lot about computers.

I used to sell these for Dell to Public. The Optiplex was well designed and had a long lifecycle as compared with the Dimension which was newer chipsets but not so standardized.

My first computer growing up was a Dell OptiPlex GXa, which used the same case design, just with two 5 1/4" bays. It had a Pentium II 266 MHz, 64 MB RAM, and a 2 GB hard drive, running Windows 98. We then got an OptiPlex GX1, with a Pentium II 400, 160 MB RAM, and a 6 GB hard drive, to run Windows XP (I know, crazy). That was the first PC where I did a CPU upgrade! I upgraded it to a Pentium III 550.

This vintage is big-time nostalgic for me. I had a pc Jr and a pacbell 486, but the pentium generation is when I got really into computers.

Nice system review, I really thought that these desktop systems were newer, now thanks to you and your channel I know better!

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