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First post, by cannonfodder009

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Hi everyone, long time lurker here. I was gifted an unusual Packard Bell a couple of days ago and just got around to dissecting it.

Never seen an ATX version of this case before and for the life of me can't find pictures of one anywhere.

The latest date code I could find was on the hard drive of March 98 so its a very late Win95 PC.

Best I can tell these are the specs
233mhz Pentium MMX
32mb 168pin ram
Intel OEM board with an ATI mach64 and yamaha sound integrated
Goldstar 24x cd-rom drive
6.4gb toshiba hard drive

Anybody have any ideas about this? Or am I just out of loop on obscure PB machines? Thanks!

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Reply 1 of 3, by bofh.fromhell

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Intel AN430TX motherboard?
Early ATX case tho.
Also would not surprise me if Dell just added plastic covers to an existing case.
I would guess the HDD was upgraded, 6.4GB sounds a tad large for that era.
Tho it was available.
Love the front panel connector, not so much if you wanna upgrade the MB later =)

Nice system!

Reply 2 of 3, by dionb

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This one's in the PB wiki, so not so unknown. Imaginatively titled 'Mini-Tower':
http://pbplanet.info/wiki/index.php/Mini-Tower

Can't recall ever having seen this in EU - so probably used for US-only models. The AN430TX was usually found in a Milano Mini Tower in EU.

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