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Me ol' Packard Bell.

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Frew

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I got this old Parkard Bell and I am bored. Any ideas?
Specs

133mhz Pentium
32 mb ram
2.5gb hard Drive
Onboard graphics

Actually the only thing good about this computer is its "Built in cable ready TV".
 
Yes, throw it off a cliff or shoot it.

Even if it wasn't so heinously old, it is still a Packard Bell.

All Packard Bells were born with the digital equivalent of down syndrome.
 
lets test the firecracker.

we want to know if the computer still work if you lite a firecracker and seal it inside.
 
i have a amd 64 with a dead psu so i brought out a pentium 233 with mmx system with no hd. i plugged in my monitor and a floppy it booted up to memtest86 (it's the only floppy boot software i had downloaded). I'm thinking of plugging in my 200 GB ide hard drive and seeing how it likes the windows 95 -> xp upgrade
 
Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer
i have a amd 64 with a dead psu so i brought out a pentium 233 with mmx system with no hd. i plugged in my monitor and a floppy it booted up to memtest86 (it's the only floppy boot software i had downloaded). I'm thinking of plugging in my 200 GB ide hard drive and seeing how it likes the windows 95 -> xp upgrade
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Did you accidentally hit the zero key twice?
Or does G=M? (seems a bit small)
and 20Gb is a bit big.
 
Originally posted by: LeadFrog
I got this old Parkard Bell and I am bored. Any ideas?
Specs

133mhz Pentium
32 mb ram
2.5gb hard Drive
Onboard graphics

Actually the only thing good about this computer is its "Built in cable ready TV".
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Sledgehammer?

(/me recalls a certain Peter Gabriel song, and imagines an entire assembly-line of people smashing up Packard Bell PCs. Yeah!)
 
Originally posted by: Metron
I dropped an old dot matrix printer down an absurdly long flight of concrete stairs once...
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🙁

Dot matrix = teh cool.

I miss my old dost matrix printer. And the noise it made...and the cool spools of paper with the little tear off punched hole strips...
 
hand grenade...
or pipe bomb
!!! BOOM! dead packard Bell!
the world will be a better place with 1 less Packard hell
 
Originally posted by: CVSiN
hand grenade...
or pipe bomb
!!! BOOM! dead packard Bell!
the world will be a better place with 1 less Packard hell
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Yea, because I got so many of those hand grenades laying around.
 
You could try overclocking it and take it to extremes. If you fry it, oh well. And btw, I have a Packerd Bell 75mhz with 16 freakin mbs of ram. And 1 mb video with an option to add in an extra 1mb chip for extreme gaming performance. The processor had a passive heatsink that is smaller than most southbridge heatsinks these days. And it served me well for over 6 years.
 
Originally posted by: RussianSoldier
run some distributed computing!
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😀 On THAT? :Q I have a P3 @ 731MHz; it's been working on the same WU for FOUR days now. It's 75% done. 🙁

I may yank that box and make it my "Mike Learns Linux" box.

I was thinking somthing more like Roof + Drop= Kaput
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LOL!! While that would be fun, it would be a waste of a perfectly good little box...though you can't do much on it except the Linux/firewall suggestion. 🙂

If you do destroy it, take pics. :evil:
 
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer
i have a amd 64 with a dead psu so i brought out a pentium 233 with mmx system with no hd. i plugged in my monitor and a floppy it booted up to memtest86 (it's the only floppy boot software i had downloaded). I'm thinking of plugging in my 200 GB ide hard drive and seeing how it likes the windows 95 -> xp upgrade
Click to expand...

Did you accidentally hit the zero key twice?
Or does G=M? (seems a bit small)
and 20Gb is a bit big.
Click to expand...

nope I have a 200 GB hard drive for the system in my sig. the pentium 233 originally had a
top-o-the-line 3.2GB
 
Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer
i have a amd 64 with a dead psu so i brought out a pentium 233 with mmx system with no hd. i plugged in my monitor and a floppy it booted up to memtest86 (it's the only floppy boot software i had downloaded). I'm thinking of plugging in my 200 GB ide hard drive and seeing how it likes the windows 95 -> xp upgrade
Click to expand...

Did you accidentally hit the zero key twice?
Or does G=M? (seems a bit small)
and 20Gb is a bit big.
Click to expand...

nope I have a 200 GB hard drive for the system in my sig. the pentium 233 originally had a
top-o-the-line 3.2GB
Click to expand...

WHY did you put a windows 95 on a 200GB drive :shocked:?
 
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