Packard Bell *

leileilol wrote:

Packard Bell *

I had a Packard Bell P-150 once, and the only problem I had with it was the case was even more convoluted inside than a Mac case. Upgrading it was a PITA. There were structural braces all over the place that were only there to make it impossible to get your hands inside to upgrade anything. I did a lot of cutting on that case to make it more accessible.

sliderider wrote:

leileilol wrote:

Packard Bell *

I had a Packard Bell P-150 once, and the only problem I had with it was the case was even more convoluted inside than a Mac case. Upgrading it was a PITA. There were structural braces all over the place that were only there to make it impossible to get your hands inside to upgrade anything. I did a lot of cutting on that case to make it more accessible.

Did the case look like this :

I had a PB like that, and it really was like trying to break into a safe. To be fair, the plastic cover came off really easily, only 3 screws.

That may have been it but I don't remember it having a wide base like that. I seem to remember it being a straight tower with no base.

Having any clone of DOS that was not actually MS-DOS pretty much doomed you to not be able to run very specific games. One of my friends was also stuck with EDO ram at a time when you couldn't find the stuff anymore. Another friend and I also used to joke that Cyrix processors could probably melt your computer, though TBH, that was just an assumption based on stories we heard which may or may not have been true. :P

Also get this: The Packard Bell 486DX2/66 system my father got back in the early 90s came with Megarace... which is not 100% compatable with Packard Bell systems and had a tendency to lock up at random moments. XD

Also, being stuck without a Sound Blaster card in the 90s could be surprisingly painful. x_x;