Old Parkard Bell Systems and Software Disc's

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Hello,

I might be interested; I'm trying to up my old PB Legend 406CD so that
it can be a cheap Linux lab box. Let me know, thanks for posting.

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As always, depends on the age and condition. Personally, I think 386 and 486
computers are of little use any more, even running Linux. Some of the Pentium
systems can be outfitted with Windows 98 or Linux and serve perfectly well for
surfing the web, writing letters, doing basic spreadsheet computations, etc.

For my part, I have no interest, but others will. I also have modestly priced
motherboards for PB Pentium-class systems, if anyone wants a replacement or a
minor speed upgrade to, say, Socket 7 CPUs and cache memory on the motherboard
itself. PB had Intel and other manufacturers build cacheless motherboards to
keep costs down, so they could sell at low prices back then... Ben Myers

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 19:55:19 GMT, Phil Salisbury
<woodlawn.cabinetry@verizon.net> wrote:

>I have three PB Computers lounging in my basement and all the associateed disc's for them.
>
>I don't recall which models they are, but I want to unload them and I know that even though
>PB is now a distance memory, I figured that maybe I can at the least part them out and get
>rid of the software.
>
>Somewhere down the road soon I will be pulling this stuff out and checking on what I have and will
>be posting it back here.
>
>I was just wondering if there would be any interest.
>
>
>

Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.packardbell (More info?)

Ben,

All the PB's I have are Pentium class systems.

I know for a fact that one system is P2 266 mhz processor that runs win98 on it.

The other two PB's are P1 100mhz processors that ran win95.

Granted, these systems are not the greatest in terms of speed, but, I was thinking
more along the lines of tearing them down and offering out the parts of these
systems to those that could but them to better use.

As for the software disc's, well, I was thinking in terms of those that could benefit
from the MasterCD's that PB's systems came with.

I still know a few people that are using the 386 & 486 systems purely as word
processors running the old windows 6 dos based systems.

Phil

Ben Myers wrote:

> As always, depends on the age and condition. Personally, I think 386 and 486
> computers are of little use any more, even running Linux. Some of the Pentium
> systems can be outfitted with Windows 98 or Linux and serve perfectly well for
> surfing the web, writing letters, doing basic spreadsheet computations, etc.
>
> For my part, I have no interest, but others will. I also have modestly priced
> motherboards for PB Pentium-class systems, if anyone wants a replacement or a
> minor speed upgrade to, say, Socket 7 CPUs and cache memory on the motherboard
> itself. PB had Intel and other manufacturers build cacheless motherboards to
> keep costs down, so they could sell at low prices back then... Ben Myers
>
> On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 19:55:19 GMT, Phil Salisbury
> <woodlawn.cabinetry@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> >I have three PB Computers lounging in my basement and all the associateed disc's for them.
> >
> >I don't recall which models they are, but I want to unload them and I know that even though
> >PB is now a distance memory, I figured that maybe I can at the least part them out and get
> >rid of the software.
> >
> >Somewhere down the road soon I will be pulling this stuff out and checking on what I have and will
> >be posting it back here.
> >
> >I was just wondering if there would be any interest.
> >
> >
> >

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I agree that 386 and 486 systems can still be put to limited use. But I would
only give one to my worst enemy... Ben Myers

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 14:07:25 GMT, Phil Salisbury
<woodlawn.cabinetry@verizon.net> wrote:

>Ben,
>
>All the PB's I have are Pentium class systems.
>
>I know for a fact that one system is P2 266 mhz processor that runs win98 on it.
>
>The other two PB's are P1 100mhz processors that ran win95.
>
>Granted, these systems are not the greatest in terms of speed, but, I was thinking
>more along the lines of tearing them down and offering out the parts of these
>systems to those that could but them to better use.
>
>As for the software disc's, well, I was thinking in terms of those that could benefit
>from the MasterCD's that PB's systems came with.
>
>I still know a few people that are using the 386 & 486 systems purely as word
>processors running the old windows 6 dos based systems.
>
>Phil
>
>Ben Myers wrote:
>
>> As always, depends on the age and condition. Personally, I think 386 and 486
>> computers are of little use any more, even running Linux. Some of the Pentium
>> systems can be outfitted with Windows 98 or Linux and serve perfectly well for
>> surfing the web, writing letters, doing basic spreadsheet computations, etc.
>>
>> For my part, I have no interest, but others will. I also have modestly priced
>> motherboards for PB Pentium-class systems, if anyone wants a replacement or a
>> minor speed upgrade to, say, Socket 7 CPUs and cache memory on the motherboard
>> itself. PB had Intel and other manufacturers build cacheless motherboards to
>> keep costs down, so they could sell at low prices back then... Ben Myers
>>
>> On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 19:55:19 GMT, Phil Salisbury
>> <woodlawn.cabinetry@verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> >I have three PB Computers lounging in my basement and all the associateed disc's for them.
>> >
>> >I don't recall which models they are, but I want to unload them and I know that even though
>> >PB is now a distance memory, I figured that maybe I can at the least part them out and get
>> >rid of the software.
>> >
>> >Somewhere down the road soon I will be pulling this stuff out and checking on what I have and will
>> >be posting it back here.
>> >
>> >I was just wondering if there would be any interest.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>

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Have any overdrive/evergreen/powerleap processors? Also, if you're
parting out any of the mobos, what version are they (ie Hilliary, 640,
etc)

Thanks.

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The best I can do on LPX motherboards is a 9" square LPX board with an HP BIOS.
It supports classic Pentium up to 200MHz, has 2MB S3 on-board graphics, 256K
external cache, Yamaha sound chip, (2) USB 1.1 ports, the usual pair of serial
ports, parallel port, two IDE connectors, floppy connector. It will fit
perfectly in any PB case which has a long narrow single opening in the back for
all the external connectors. It includes the metal strip which covers the
external connectors and fills in the narrow back opening. It is made by Intel,
like most of the PB LPX boards, and is very similar to the Advanced/RU model for
which high quality Adobe Acrobat specs are available.

I also have several classic Pentium 200 chips and new heat sink/cooling fans to
go with them.

I have a couple of other models of LPX boards here. One is a much larger Intel
Advanced/RH board which supports up to 192MB memory, but has only 1MB (or is it
512KB, ugh, I forget).

Another LPX one is not made by Intel, by GVC, I think. It does support Pentium
MMX up to 233MHz and some of the higher voltage AMD K6 chips, but not the faster
400MHz ones. Also 233MHz Pentium MMX chips. I have to fire this one up to
recall more about it.

As for PowerLeap, Evergreen or OverDrive processors, I am fresh out. Have not
had any for a while now.

I scrapped my Hilary and 640 boards some months ago, thinking that there would
be almost no demand for them. The cacheless ones are pretty crippled. I have
lots of other computer parts competing for space. The LPX boards I have
retained here at least offer a modest upgrade to an LPX system (PB, HP, IBM and
a few others used LPX boards) at a very modest price in this year 2005, for
anyone wanting to put in the effort to tear down a system and upgrade it to make
it faster.

RSVP direct via email if you are interested in any of these boards, CPUs, fans,
and 32MB EDO 72-pin SIMM memory. Remove the obvious _spam_me_not from the email
address... Ben Myers

On 3 Jan 2005 18:18:11 -0800, "lt_wentoncha" <lt_wentonchan@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Have any overdrive/evergreen/powerleap processors? Also, if you're
>parting out any of the mobos, what version are they (ie Hilliary, 640,
>etc)
>
>Thanks.
>