Packard Bell 4x4 (P75)
Status:Still have it
Name:Packard Bell 4x4 (P75)
Memory: 40MB
Monitor/rez:N/A
Drives: 1.44mb floppy and 2.5Gb western digital caviar, 4x matsushita CD-ROM
CPU: intel P75
Secondary cache:
OS: OS/2 Warp 4 (4.5)
Extras:
Packard Bell 16 soundcard (replaced with an awe64)
Packard Bell RadioCard
3com 509B tripple combo card
Comments:
I first met this computer when a friend (P) owned it, it was his first computer. Back in those days it had DOS and Win 3.1, it had a 520mb hdd and 16 mb ram (and the cd-rom, pb soundcard and radio card). After a while his hdd died and after i spent 50 minutes with PB support saying "the hdd doesn't even spin up, FDISK ain't gonna do much if i can't get past the BIOS detect" i finally got a supervisor and got to ask "can i change the hdd or do you want to?" in normal pb manner..they wanted to. yes the hdd was blown, but they were nice and replaced it with a 1.28 gb hdd (in fact the very one i've got in the HP vectra dx2-66).
anyway, later P sold this computer to his brother N, and i was still the person called to "help out" it then ran win95A, and got upgraded to 40 megs, the original intention was 64, but it has one bad memorybank and we didn't want to risk breaking the memory modules (yeah it's that bad) so we forced a couple of 4 meggers (affordable to break) into the membank socket instead.
it later also got a cd burner, a hdd change (western digital 20megger) (uuugh it needed ontrak disk manager) (this is when i was given the 1.28 gigger)
later N purchased a pIII, and as i helped him set that up, the p75 was designated as "payment", i have for a long time not had the time to go pick it up, but recently did
it was agreed that the 20 gigger wasn't part of the deal, neither was the cd-burner
still, it works well with os/2, it'd work well with linux too :-))
Tips n Trix:
None really, this one was actually fully working when i got it
TOOLS:
HW:
SW:
links
N/A (googlerize it)
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