aquired this the other day
wondering if anyone knows what model it is
current specs
packard bell
microstar ms-6340
amd atherlon 1ghz
512mb sdram pc133
nvidia tnt2 m64 16mb tv
40gb hd
win 98se
theres no other markings on it to say what model it is
I have the same case. There is a sticker on the back of the case, which holds the model number on my machine.
Retro PC warning: The things you own end up owning you.
thers no stickers any where they must have been removed at some time the only ones on it are the pacard bell one win 98se coa and a nvidia one
yes thats bob
hello bob
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Some googling reveals it's called the 'Halley'
Edit:
Link: http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/pb/mb/halley.htm
It's supposed to be part of an i-media
I identify that as ugly and stupid.
oops my bad, I thought it was an earlier model 90's Packard Bell.
Oh wow, here in the US, Packard Bell never thought to use any parts that resembled something standardized and I think the fastest one made here had a Pentium MMX in it.
They once made a PB that had an integrated Voodoo3 onboard.
wrote:They once made a PB that had an integrated Voodoo3 onboard.
Yup, MSI motherboard 😉
I suppose with some more due respect to Packard Bell, they were amongst the first (and the first I've ever seen) to color code cable connectors.
wrote:I suppose with some more due respect to Packard Bell, they were amongst the first (and the first I've ever seen) to color code cable connectors.
Actually, I think the PB mobo's from those times were not half bad. Used one as my main system for 2 years (Celeron 400 PPGA and ME), amongst other stuff from them I have.
However, I'm not in the slightest a fan of their software. It's bloated with junk and very impractical from a retrocomputing perspective.
I considered Packard Bells in the 90s to be nicer than Compaq and IBM consumer desktops of the time but not as nice Gateway and Dell systems.
Come to think of it, Gateway's always used standard motherboard layouts for all but their space saving systems and their case designs were always top notch. I think they were also amongst the very first to adopt ATX. Packard Bell, on the other hand, had really good case designs but the internals just seemed to go obsolete so fast and their proprietary nature put them in the same camp as HP and IBM (a lot of Dell's home systems used standardized parts). Though I suppose that latter part really isn't relevant on a forum full of people who treasure their old 386 and 486 project systems (myself included).
