Folks, the subject says it all. I will continue to monitor postings to this newsgroup in the unlikely event that someone will want and I can provide useful info about his/her system. But I will give up if I think I am wasting my time. alt.sys.pc-clone.packardbell R.I.P. Neither RTFM and Elector...

For you collectors out there. http://boston.craigslist.org/sob/sys/755264259.html .... Ben Myers

I picked up a PB 286 at the town transfer station (that's town dump for those who live in less snobbish towns) Saturday. It was pretty much stripped, but I did pull the 286 motherboard, riser card, and ST-238R RLL hard drive. The CPU is a 12MHz AMD 286. I also kept the wire leads to the...

PB systems are coming out of the woodwork. Or the garage. Or the basement. Or the attic. No, this is not mine... Ben Myers http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/sys/629365945.html

Anybody need matched sets of 4x32MB EDO 72-pin SIMMs or 233MHz Pentium MMX CPUs? Found some in a corner today, in CPU boards long overdue for the recycler. If interested let me know. Won't charge a lot, 'cause this is 2008. But cover my costs and a little bit for my time... Ben Myers

Agreed, cookies are a royal pain in the arse. But Billy Gates is not the culprit on this one. Tim Berners-Lee and his cohorts who invented the WWW included cookies. You'll get cookies on Macs, Linux boxes, and any other computer with a browser that complies with the WWW standard. .... Ben...

Four 32MB 72-pin EDO SIMMs will max out the memory on your computer. .... Ben Myers On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:10:02 -0700, "Anthony M. Saffer" wrote: Hello Everyone, I have a Packard Bell Multimedia E156 PC that I am trying to bring back to

Take the high road. Tell him that you saved him $2.99 a minute for YOUR trouble and that he can send you a recovery CD gratis for your help. That's a fair trade in my book. Of course, if he's an ingrate, he'll refuse your suggestion and lose out getting any sort of help from any of us in the...

Today, I was the proud recipient of a Legend 402CD in apparently good condition, even with the original sticker on the top of the case telling the specs. It is the usual square desktop chassis of the era. Assumiong that this beauty is all original, it has a 75MHz Pentium (worth its weight in...

Just to stir up this group a little, I need to say that I got myself a PB Axcel 46CD desktop system today. Customer housecleaning, along with other work I did there. Haven't touched it yet to see if it powers up or what is inside. Any interest in either the whole system or parts? Assuming...

I collected a Packard Bell model 820 small tower computer today. This is one of the first ATX form factor computers sold by PB, but it is still a Socket 7 with a Cyrix CPU and 72-pin SIMMs. It has a SiS 5598 motherboard chipset. The hardware is complete and appears to be all original, except...

A Packard Bell 60MHz Socket 4 Pentium system showed up here yesterday as part of a collection of out-of-service computers. The desktop case was pretty munged up, but the motherboard appears to be in good shape. The system had the original PB Aztec full-length ISA sound card, but somebody...

There in a pile of older computers was yet another PB desktop system, again without the top like the last one. This one has a nice Intel-made Pentium board with the later 430VX chipset, a Pentium 133, a green heat sink, and jumpers to go up to 200MHz with a suitable CPU. The front of the case...

Rescued an incomplete desktop Legend 402CD at the town transfer station (that's the New England euphamism for town dump) today. No CPU, but memory. Case incomplete, so pretty useless. Any interest in some of the parts at the cost of scrap plus shipping? A quick look tells me this is an...

I did not know that Acer owns the Packard Bell brand name. The fact escaped me. Seems like Acer has collected a lot of brand names: Gateway, eMachines and Packard Bell. Check the following URL for news about the reconstituted...

This is not my ad... Ben Myers Packard Bell PC - $10 ( Pelham NH) Reply to: Date: 2009-03-20, 8:09PM EDT Packard Bell PC Platinum Supreme 1680. 200Mhz MMX processor, CDRW & CD drive, floppy, 128mg RAM, Windows ME, 16mg Video Card, NIC. Take it...

I cleared away the ATX clutter on my workbench today and booted up the LPX motherboard I found in another clutter. It is an Intel-made board with an AST BIOS signature and an Intel 430FX chipset. For those who can't remember, AST was a trailing edge name brand, and they bit the dust rather...

While going through my computer treasures the other day, I came across an LPX motherboard, the kind used in PB systems. It's a Socket 7 made by Intel. Not sure what CPU it has, and I'm not sure if it is a PB original or from some other company like HP or NEC. This one has a VRM socket on it,...

For those of you collectors: http://nh.craigslist.org/sys/938894446.html Nope, it's not mine. "Seacoast" is on the New Hampshire coast... Ben Myers

Saw this on craigslist today: http://nh.craigslist.org/sys/2088095898.html Not one, but two(!!!) PBs for sale... Ben Myers