{"id":23176,"date":"2026-01-09T19:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?page_id=23176"},"modified":"2026-01-09T19:13:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:13:56","slug":"vin193","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/vin193\/","title":{"rendered":"Gateway E\u20111400"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Gateway E\u20111400<\/h2>\n<p>[Vin193]<\/p>\n<p>The Gateway E\u20111400 represents a classic early\u20112000s educational and small\u2011business desktop PC that showcased Gateway\u2019s focus on affordable, serviceable, and network\u2011ready systems tailored for labs and institutional settings. It typically shipped with Intel Celeron or Pentium\u2011class processors, modest SDRAM, and easy\u2011access internals, emphasizing ease of maintenance and practical utility over cutting\u2011edge performance, features that made it particularly well\u2011suited for computer labs and administrative deployments in universities and schools.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Manufacturer<\/strong>: Gateway<\/li>\n<li><strong>Type<\/strong>: Compact desktop personal computer<\/li>\n<li><strong>Release Date<\/strong>: 2000<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cost at release<\/strong>: $2,500 (adjusted for inflation)<\/li>\n<li><strong>MIPS<\/strong>: ~250<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"TextRun SCXW36078203 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW36078203 BCX0\">Hardware Specifications<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CPU<\/strong>: Intel Celeron ~500\u202fMHz (Socket 370, single\u2011core).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Memory<\/strong>: ~256\u202fMB SDRAM typical on stock configurations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Storage<\/strong>: IDE hard drive (commonly ~40\u202fGB).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Optical Drive<\/strong>: 24\u00d7 CD\u2011ROM drive (plus 3.5\u2033 floppy drive).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Graphics<\/strong>: Integrated video via Intel 810 family chipset graphics (PCI video)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Audio<\/strong>: Integrated AC97 audio (basic stereo support).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Network<\/strong>: 10\/100\u202fMbps Ethernet onboard for network connectivity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Expansion<\/strong>: Standard PCI slots for additional cards.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Weight<\/strong> (desktop unit): approx. 17.4\u202flbs (7.9\u202fkg).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"TextRun SCXW136206418 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW136206418 BCX0\">Operating System &amp; Programming Languages<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW136206418 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Operating System<\/strong>: Windows 98 (some configurations shipped with Windows 95 or Windows 2000 Professional for business\/education deployments).\n<ul>\n<li>Optional: Linux distributions of the era could also run on it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><strong>Supported Languages:<\/strong><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>High-level \/ Application Languages:\n<ul>\n<li>Visual Basic 6.0<\/li>\n<li>Delphi \/ Pascal<\/li>\n<li>C \/ C++ (via Microsoft Visual C++ or Borland compilers)<\/li>\n<li>Java 1.2\/1.3 (via Sun JDK)<\/li>\n<li>Python 1.5\u20132.0<\/li>\n<li>Pascal (Turbo Pascal)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Scripting \/ Web Languages:\n<ul>\n<li>JavaScript \/ VBScript (for Windows scripting and web development)<\/li>\n<li>Perl \/ Tcl \/ PHP (if installed separately on Windows or via Cygwin)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Educational \/ Hobbyist Languages: LOGO, BASIC, QBASIC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Effectively, any x86-compatible language supported on Windows 95\/98\/2000 could run on the E\u20111400, making it versatile for educational labs, programming courses, or small business applications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Notables<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Circa 2000, representing the turn-of-the-millennium affordable desktop for education and small business.<\/li>\n<li>A workhorse PC that helped democratize computing in labs and classrooms, bridging the gap between high-end desktops and low-cost PCs.<\/li>\n<li>Easy-to-service small-form desktop, Intel Celeron CPU, integrated graphics\/audio, network-ready for labs.<\/li>\n<li>Gateway marketed it as a \u201cfull-featured PC for under $1,000\u201d, emphasizing value over prestige, contrasting with Apple or high-end Dell machines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Donated by<\/strong>: Dr Arlen Michaels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gateway E\u20111400 [Vin193] The Gateway E\u20111400 represents a classic early\u20112000s educational and small\u2011business desktop PC that showcased Gateway\u2019s focus on affordable, serviceable, and network\u2011ready systems tailored for labs and institutional settings. It typically shipped with Intel Celeron or Pentium\u2011class processors, modest SDRAM, and easy\u2011access internals, emphasizing ease of maintenance and practical utility over cutting\u2011edge performance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":19704,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gateway E\u20111400 - School of Computer Science<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gateway E\u20111400 The Gateway E\u20111400 represents a classic early\u20112000s educational and small\u2011business desktop PC that showcased Gateway\u2019s focus on affordable,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/vin193\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/vin193\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/vin193\/\",\"name\":\"Gateway E\u20111400 - School of Computer Science\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2026-01-10T00:00:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-01-10T00:13:56+00:00\",\"description\":\"Gateway E\u20111400 The Gateway E\u20111400 represents a classic early\u20112000s educational and small\u2011business desktop PC that showcased Gateway\u2019s focus on affordable,\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/vin193\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/vin193\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/vin193\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Vintage Computing\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Vintage Computing Collection\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"Gateway E\u20111400\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/\",\"name\":\"School of Computer Science\",\"description\":\"Carleton University\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Gateway E\u20111400 - School of Computer Science","description":"Gateway E\u20111400 The Gateway E\u20111400 represents a classic early\u20112000s educational and small\u2011business desktop PC that showcased Gateway\u2019s focus on affordable,","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/vin193\/","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/vin193\/","url":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/vin193\/","name":"Gateway E\u20111400 - School of Computer Science","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/#website"},"datePublished":"2026-01-10T00:00:36+00:00","dateModified":"2026-01-10T00:13:56+00:00","description":"Gateway E\u20111400 The Gateway E\u20111400 represents a classic early\u20112000s educational and small\u2011business desktop PC that showcased Gateway\u2019s focus on affordable,","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/vin193\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/vin193\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/vin193\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Vintage Computing","item":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Vintage Computing Collection","item":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Gateway E\u20111400"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/#website","url":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/","name":"School of Computer Science","description":"Carleton University","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"acf":{"banner_image_type":"none","banner_button":"no"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23182,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23176\/revisions\/23182"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}