Have opportunity to buy this but not sure what model it is if it's even worth my time. Just seeing if I can get some help on the specs? The owner doesn't know anything about it. Comes with the monitor with speakers attached to the side.
That looks like the packard bell LGR restored in a recent video:
Ask the seller if it has a label on top of the chassis, and take a picture if it does.
No stickers on top she says. I know it is one of the PB Multimedia PC era rigs but not sure which one. I thought most of them had AMD processors though but this one has an Intel according to the sticker.
This computer has a PCI modem installed at the top slot and has pre-MMX pentium. According to http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/pb/mb/pbmb1.htm it's most likely a 850. 992 has similar motherboard but I couldn't find a picture of 992's chassis.
Nevermind my last reply. She wasn't sure what I meant but I explained it again and she found the sticker. It is a 5951 model. Now my initial google foo-ing has not turned up any results for info on this machine. Does anyone know where I can find info on it?
I'm not sure exactly what model it is, but there are some clues as to what era it is from:
What does the windows and intel stickers say at the bottom of the front of the case, as well as that red sticker? I'm sure those would be great clues.
It looks like a 1998-1998 budged model. Either a super socket 7 K6-II machine or a celeron. The super-7 used a mATX ALi Aladdin motherboards with no AGP slot and on board video (usually a low end ATi card). The celeron used a socket 370 motherboard with on-board video and sound. Pretty slow machines for their time, but should make for a nice retro PC.
The internal VGA adapter could be an ATI Rage II with 2MB of ram like in the LGR video... Could be that the motherboard would be the same, only with a different processor, memory, harddisk..
~ At least it can do black and white~
Found it!
http://web.archive.org/web/19991013114622/htt … dels/mm5951.asp
http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/pb/mb/880.htm
Well it's a Celeron... I thought the bottom left logo was a pre-MMX Pentium because it lacks the MMX banner...
You da man lazibayer! Ok so if I'm not mistaken the monitor in this package is quite sought after right? Does anyone have some info on it?
Not sure if that monitor is sought after or not, but I remember it. The speakers on each side are actually detachable and have their own power supply. They basically just 'hang' on the monitor.
As far as the monitor itself, it wasn't the greatest, but not he very worst either. I think it could do up to 1024x768 interlaced. It should stay as part of the system--keep the family together. 😉
Do you all think this is the same monitor as the one in the pic I posted above?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Packard-Bell … uQAAOSwuAVWx4bA
wrote:Do you all think this is the same monitor as the one in the pic I posted above?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Packard-Bell … uQAAOSwuAVWx4bA
Yep! That's him. 😎
Thank you all for your help! I can't decide whether or not to get it. It seems the monitor is worth some money but I don't think the actual pc itself is worth anything and I already have computers of that era that can do the same thing.
wrote:It seems the monitor is worth some money
What is the going rate for it? There aren't many Packard Bell monitors that have been sold individually on ebay right now.
wrote:Thank you all for your help! I can't decide whether or not to get it. It seems the monitor is worth some money but I don't think the actual pc itself is worth anything and I already have computers of that era that can do the same thing.
I wouldn't at that price. It wasn't anything exceptional like Sony Trinitron FDs or beautiful Nanoa and Eizo monitors from that era--those would be worth that type of money imo.
If it was to make a system 'complete', it might be worth it, but aside from that it's nothing special at all.
wrote:wrote:It seems the monitor is worth some money
What is the going rate for it? There aren't many Packard Bell monitors that have been sold individually on ebay right now.
Here's a comparative monitor that blows the out of the water for about the same price. If my rusty memory recalls correctly, this was a pc mag editors choice a few years in a row and the description about being the sharpest most perfect monitor ever is dead-on--I own the trinitron version of this monitor and it's still beautiful to look at:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nanao-17-inch-Color- … D-/131811156061
The monitor and whole Packard Bell package is something I could probably get fairly cheap if I wanted it. Just not sure its anything I need for any reason if they are not anything special.
wrote:The monitor and whole Packard Bell package is something I could probably get fairly cheap if I wanted it. Just not sure its anything I need for any reason if they are not anything special.
You could get it just to save it and restore and it then pass it onto a grateful new owner. 😎 Otherwise, a system like that gets chucked into the garage where mice, rats, bugs, spiders have their way with it and then some collector sadly picks it up for free (if it doesn't go to the trash), and then has the hard task to try to bring it back.
