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Legend 402CD in hand
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 gold), 8MB of memory, a CD-ROM drive and a 540MB disk drive. Killer system! Any interest? If so, I'll test it. If nobody shows interest within a week, I'll tear down for the board recycler. You can buy either whole or selected parts for shipping plus not much more than scrap value. A potential valuable item for an Packard Bell collector. And I know there are a few of you out there... Ben Myers |
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Legend 402CD in hand
Hi Ben !
Once again, I do sincerely appreciate you keeping this (mostly dead ) NG informed of your valuable finds. I can't use that one myself, but I *DO* hope someone grabs it. You are known for your very reasonable price, and it's a given that the machine will be as you described. Keep letting us know if any other PB's become available ! bobwatts EartH "Stay thirsty my friends! " "Ben Myers" wrote in message ... 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 gold), 8MB of memory, a CD-ROM drive and a 540MB disk drive. Killer system! Any interest? If so, I'll test it. If nobody shows interest within a week, I'll tear down for the board recycler. You can buy either whole or selected parts for shipping plus not much more than scrap value. A potential valuable item for an Packard Bell collector. And I know there are a few of you out there... Ben Myers |
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Legend 402CD in hand
"Robert E. Watts" wrote in message ... Hi Ben ! Once again, I do sincerely appreciate you keeping this (mostly dead ) NG informed of your valuable finds. I can't use that one myself, but I *DO* hope someone grabs it. You are known for your very reasonable price, and it's a given that the machine will be as you described. Keep letting us know if any other PB's become available ! bobwatts EartH "Stay thirsty my friends! " I'd have to check the exact model number but my first PC was a Packard Bell Legend p-75 with 8 megs of RAM abd an 850 meg HD still have it but it's up in the attic works fine, the last time I checked |
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Legend 402CD is history
On 10/23/2010 11:09 PM, Ben Myers wrote:
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 gold), 8MB of memory, a CD-ROM drive and a 540MB disk drive. Killer system! Any interest? If so, I'll test it. If nobody shows interest within a week, I'll tear down for the board recycler. You can buy either whole or selected parts for shipping plus not much more than scrap value. A potential valuable item for an Packard Bell collector. And I know there are a few of you out there... Ben Myers No takers. Stripped for boards and chips for electronic scrap. No longer available. No longer exists... Ben Myers |
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Legend 402CD is history
Awwwww....
On the other hand, I acquired another vintage 1995 Force 54CD, Pentium 90 MHz, just last week. Got rid of the old, junk/ed Conner 512MB hard drive and replaced it with my trusty old 8GB Quantum "Bigfoot" drive. I am using the machine as a terminal for the ADDS/NCR Mentor 2000 mainframe that I brought back from the dead earlier this year. This F54CD is now the second one I own (first was purchased brand-new, in 1995, at the long-defunct "Computer City" store in PDX.) Keep it real. -- MotoFox Former superstar of the Muzak Forums, 2003-2009 Do not staple, fold, spindle or mutilate; keep away from sources of magnetism. If ingested, do not induce vomiting. |
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Legend 402CD is history
On 12/28/2010 11:38 PM, MotoFox wrote:
Awwwww.... On the other hand, I acquired another vintage 1995 Force 54CD, Pentium 90 MHz, just last week. Got rid of the old, junk/ed Conner 512MB hard drive and replaced it with my trusty old 8GB Quantum "Bigfoot" drive. I am using the machine as a terminal for the ADDS/NCR Mentor 2000 mainframe that I brought back from the dead earlier this year. This F54CD is now the second one I own (first was purchased brand-new, in 1995, at the long-defunct "Computer City" store in PDX.) Keep it real. TRUSTY Quantum Bigfoot??? An oxymoron if there ever was one. The history behind the Bigfoot is telling, so I'll tell it. Way back when, Quantum experimented with a new technique for sputtering the magnetic oxide coating onto the material used to make the disks inside the drives. Lo and behold, the sputtering resulted in lots of defects in the magnetic media, so the capacity of 3.5" drives at the time was much diminished compared to the competition. Quantum's response was to build 5.25" Bigfoot drives, increasing the surface area on which bits could be written. Once, I mistakenly bought a number of surplus Bigfoot drives from Compaq just after they acquired DEC. I sold them as quickly as I could, the ones that worked... Ben Myers |
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Legend 402CD is history
Well, I currently own three Bigfoots, all salvaged from IBM Aptivas manufactured
circa 1999, and haven't had one fail on me yet, although I suspect one of them is about ready to give up the ghost judging by some weird noises it's been making lately. I guess they must have come from a decent batch or something. Now, the "Fireball" drives Quantum introduced a few years later.....oi. Both of them that I had failled miserably within their first year! -- MotoFox Former superstar of the Muzak Forums, 2003-2009 Do not staple, fold, spindle or mutilate; keep away from sources of magnetism. If ingested, do not induce vomiting. |
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Legend 402CD is history
On 12/30/2010 1:35 AM, MotoFox wrote:
Well, I currently own three Bigfoots, all salvaged from IBM Aptivas manufactured circa 1999, and haven't had one fail on me yet, although I suspect one of them is about ready to give up the ghost judging by some weird noises it's been making lately. I guess they must have come from a decent batch or something. Now, the "Fireball" drives Quantum introduced a few years later.....oi. Both of them that I had failled miserably within their first year! All of which explains why Quantum is no longer a drive manufacturer. Maxtor bought them, a marriage of equals in product quality... Ben Myers |
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Legend 402CD is history
Tell me, then, what brand of hard drive are you using in your Packard Bell macines?
If you say Western Digital, I will laugh dump-my-pants out loud. All of the various WD drives I have purchased brand new during the past several years have failled within the first few months of operation! -- MotoFox Former superstar of the Muzak Forums, 2003-2009 Do not staple, fold, spindle or mutilate; keep away from sources of magnetism. If ingested, do not induce vomiting. |
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