dougkinzinger Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 Probobly RIte I wood saye.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 Probobly RIte I wood saye.... I always thought that Packard Bells were probobly tight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech_8356 Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 Know EXACTLY how you feel!! I tried adding more Ram and putting a CD writer in and I lost some blood. lol The amost exact same thing happened to me once..... I reached up inside the thing to unplug the HDD, and put the floppy's power cord back in place.....didn't feel anything weird or painful, but when my hand came out, two of my fingers were gushing blood!!!!! Down with Packard Hell I say! Heck...I still have the machine that did it to me....an old Pentium 200 with 64 megs of simm ram with a 2.1GB HDD.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 I had a 75Mhz PB that I used up until a year or so ago (I had other, better computers too). The monitor on it broke and it was one of those ****ty integrated monitors so nothing I could do with it except dump it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yvo Posted November 27, 2003 Share Posted November 27, 2003 Radio Shack Canada still sells Packard Bells.(which is odd being an Intertan company, which is owned by Tandy, which is owned by IBM) [offtopic] Since when does IBM own Tandy aka Radioshack Corp. Tandy is now Radioshack. They renamed to Radioshack Corporation back in 2000 (http://www.radioshackcorporation.com/about/timeline.shtml) But IBM does not own Radioshack. They may be in some sort of business alliance but a lot of companies are that these days, even Microsoft and Apple. They did sell IBM computers at one point but now they sell primarily Compaq computers. Tandy Corp, or now Radioshack Corp, did open a few stores called Incredible Universe and Computer City. However all these "super" stores were sold off to competitors or just simply went away. (What they should have done is made a Radioshack Super store, would have been a lot easier to market since the name already existed). Now Intertan is a spin off company named INTERnational TANdy Corp. However they do not own IBM or not owned by IBM. Intertan is headquartered in Canada is represents the Canadian Radioshack. [/offtopic] I converted a Packard Bell a few years ago. It was a Pentium 133, took out the powersupply, mobo and other parts. A few hours later it had an Asus board and a Pentium 3 1ghz machine. The neighbors liked the case and wanted to keep the outside looks. They gave the computer to me this year and I donated it to one of my friends who was still running a Pentium 200MHz. However Packard Bells are still widely used/sold in Europe. This one for example, sold in the UK, still looks like the old case design from a few years ago except they changed colors. http://www.packardbell.co.uk/products/node...mber=P862000601 Can't say its ugly, but its not pretty either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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