A Look Back at 1996: The Dell Dimension XPS Pro200n Workstation
This vintage advertisement showcases the Dell Dimension XPS Pro200n, a high-end workstation from 1996. Priced at $5,799, the system featured a 200MHz Pentium Pro processor, 32MB of EDO memory, and a 3.2GB hard drive. It also included a 19-inch Trinitron monitor and the Imagine 128 Series 2 graphics accelerator with 4MB of VRAM. The machine came pre-installed with Microsoft Windows NT and MS Office Professional. The ad highlights the era's computing standards, offering a glimpse into the hardware specifications and premium pricing that defined professional-grade desktop computing in the mid-1990s.
However, you could buy 10% of a house for that money in 1996.
Team Amiga and also poor
clearly you don't know about inflation if you think we're at the same prices, $5800 usd in 1995~ is over 12k now
19" trinitron screen is pretty good for 1996
Awesome times
Except back in the day, you would not have to spend 90% of the money on just the graphics card alone.
32 MB RAM ? Whoa big mama, you really think you can afford that in 2026 ?
Paid 1500 bucks for one of these in 1997. I loved and hated this machine.
This was a high-end PC in 1996. It has an expensive Pentium Pro CPU, that had an L2-cache on the die, that made it faster than the normal Pentium. As the ad says, it's a workstation. So it's made for business users.
Rookie numbers.