1996 at Best Buy? 4-packs of BASF T-120s for $7.99, four consecutive nights of recording MST3K reruns off of Comedy Central. Repeat. Good times.
/still have all of those tapes
/still have all of those tapes
SKORPI0
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Actually bought a similar Acer system (clearanced) and a Canon color inkjet from Best Buy later that year. I remember paying >$299 for the 14" monitor that time. They didn't have CD burners that time. I thought 2GB HDD were enough that time. Upgraded to a Western Digital 3.1GB HDD a few months later.
Ended up recycling that computer early '00s, monitor early this year. Still have the "green" PS2 keyboard and ball mouse in storage.
Ended up recycling that computer early '00s, monitor early this year. Still have the "green" PS2 keyboard and ball mouse in storage.
lxskllr
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- Nov 30, 2004
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A guy I used to work with gave me one of these...
Is that an awesome case, or what? When I get the spare time I'm going to mod it, and it'll be an art deco machine. I envision orange glowing palm trees down the sides, but that's as far as I've gotten so far. What I have in mind is a stylized city building, circa 1934 :^)
Is that an awesome case, or what? When I get the spare time I'm going to mod it, and it'll be an art deco machine. I envision orange glowing palm trees down the sides, but that's as far as I've gotten so far. What I have in mind is a stylized city building, circa 1934 :^)
Kroze
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halik
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A guy I used to work with gave me one of these...
Is that an awesome case, or what? When I get the spare time I'm going to mod it, and it'll be an art deco machine. I envision orange glowing palm trees down the sides, but that's as far as I've gotten so far. What I have in mind is a stylized city building, circa 1934 :^)
Need one of these:
http://home.fuse.net/bobwatts/packardbellcorner.htm
lxskllr
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That's a neat thing. I'm honestly not very familiar with Packard Bell, but it seems they had some visionary designers back in the day. I wonder why more companies didn't try doing interesting things with computer design. Even 3rd party cases stick pretty close to the box concept. Not very imaginative :^/
IndyColtsFan
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PieIsAwesome
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My parents bought a Packard Bell for their first computer in 1998 and it seemed fine. I later took it apart and I thought it was pretty decent quality. All the other pre-built comps I have opened up have had a mess of cables, some retarded proprietary case system that makes swapping out a hard drive a pain, weird front panel configs, a lot of plastic crap, and generally were terrible to work with. The Packard Bell my parents had was nice and clean inside, no mess of cables, standard steel micro ATX case with no weird doors, cages, or other proprietary crap. The case was also really well built.
Oh, but the PSU died. The monitor the PC came with also died. The speakers died too. And the shitty Lexmark printer was a horrible piece of crap.
Oh, but the PSU died. The monitor the PC came with also died. The speakers died too. And the shitty Lexmark printer was a horrible piece of crap.
The Boston Dangler
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A guy I used to work with gave me one of these...
Is that an awesome case, or what? When I get the spare time I'm going to mod it, and it'll be an art deco machine. I envision orange glowing palm trees down the sides, but that's as far as I've gotten so far. What I have in mind is a stylized city building, circa 1934 :^)
that's an art deco slam dunk. i would go for super-glossy black, thin stripes of chrome, maybe panes of glass an incandescent bulbs. or, the chrysler building.
0roo0roo
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http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/15/business/packard-bell-settles-class-action-suit.html
No kidding, they got in trouble for reselling used parts in their pcs.
Packard bell was low end junk.
My dad got one of these as a bonus, Im guessing '89 or '90. Still had a monochrome monitor thou. Would be a couple of years before we could afford the vga monitor.
my intro to pc's was my friend's packard bell 166, just like the 1 in the ad. i very much learned what a pc should not be like due to that thing.
1 of the garbage links at the bottom took me to this:
not as brilliant as this:
SaDiZTiKStyLeZ
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It would be cool if Steam put up those Street Fighter & Mega Man games.
Dru Down, ATCQ & NWA? Wow. A time when mainstream music wasn't so damn horrendous.
I didn't even think Dru Down was that popular back then though.
But you wasn't shit if you didn't jam fuck out to Macerena.
Dru Down, ATCQ & NWA? Wow. A time when mainstream music wasn't so damn horrendous.
I didn't even think Dru Down was that popular back then though.
But you wasn't shit if you didn't jam fuck out to Macerena.
0roo0roo
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AdamK47
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Packard Bell was one of the top PC manufacturers in the 90s. It's kinda suprising that you aren't familiar with them.
They also came out with this awesome commercial in 1996.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVDKEi7EWZc
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Wyndru
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A guy I used to work with gave me one of these...
Is that an awesome case, or what? When I get the spare time I'm going to mod it, and it'll be an art deco machine. I envision orange glowing palm trees down the sides, but that's as far as I've gotten so far. What I have in mind is a stylized city building, circa 1934 :^)
my mom had one of those cases, it was a pain in the ass to work on. It had little sheets of flexible metal coating the inside that you had to make sure didn't get bent. Have fun modding that.
OBLAMA2009
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we can thank packard bell for why resellers cant sell returned and refurbished computers as "new". they had a secret warehouse called "area 51" where they disassembled returned computers and reprocessed the parts for resale as new and they got sued
I had a magical PB monitor. 14" that could do 1600x1200. I had to run that in Subspace to get an edge in the game (resolution allowed you to see farther and thus snipe farther).
That USR 28.8 might actually be a 33.6, I had one of those and it did 33.6 just fine. Ah init strings.
That USR 28.8 might actually be a 33.6, I had one of those and it did 33.6 just fine. Ah init strings.
shortylickens
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yeah I remember the days when superior hardware actually made the games better.
Good times.
dank69
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