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Not go to sleep, but actually spin down, like you were preparing it for a bumpy trip, like you could do with old hard drives. It should also be noted that the hard disk that shipped with my Packard Bell box hadn't been tested before shipping-after 10 minutes of inactivity it would spin down. The kicker is that I paid $2,000.00 (USD) for it, at a time when it was already obsolete, in January 1995, just as the Intel Pentium was introduced. After three years, the power supply, CD-ROM drive, hard drive and video card all failed. The 14400 BPS modem had been released years beforehand and the 2400 had been obsolete for quite a while by the time of purchase. The fact that it came with an onboard 2400 BPS modem should have been an omen of things to come. Taking the cover off the case, one would be blasted by a wave of hot air coming off the processor in visible waves. One could cut ten halfway decent PCI-Express video card shapes out of the huge circuit board. It was a good twenty inches in length and took up a large portion of the interior space. The video card was the most monstrous thing I've seen inside a computer case.

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Tinny speakers, a feeble serial mouse that broke after a week of use, and an AT keyboard.

120W power supply (mine failed after 3 years of constant use).

3.5" floppy drive, manufacturer unknown.

A motherboard riser card, on which the ISA slots were mounted.

An empty ISA slot (mine was filled by a US Robotics 33600 modem).

2400 baud internal modem that was soldered to (not incorporated into) the motherboard.

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AT motherboard, manufacturer unknown (it may as well have come free in a box of breakfast cereal).

Up to 16MB of RAM, with up to 2 SIMM slots (8MB maximum capacity each).

486sx 33MHz or 486dx2 66MHz processor ( fan not included!).

I had a Packard Bell Legend as well, though I don't recall the model number. To the best of my memory, the Packard Bell computers mentioned above had a standard design and more or less the same few components scattered across a few different models. Of course, it could be worse, it could be a Compaq. Some people don't want a tricked out computer though, and as long as it starts and continues to work, those users remain pleased.

Which is to say, I smashed it with a 2x4 during a drunken orgy of violence and then dumped the remains in the garbage without ceremony. I flirted withe idea of upgrading it again, but eventually I realised it was pointless and let the old girl out to pasture. I think the floppy drive and power supply were all that remained. By this point there was little of the original computer left. Last year they got a new computer and returned the old one to me. I eventually got different computers, and I gave the old Packard Bell to some friends, upgrading it once more so that they could receive email at home.

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Much like a taco from a roadside vendor, everything was cool till I opened it up and looked inside.Īs the years went on I continued to upgrade it. I never had a problem with that computer until I attempted to upgrade it. It served its purpose, though, and served it well for many years. It was poorly designed, barely upgradable, and its hardware was already well outdated at the time of purchase. The first computer I owned was a Packard Bell 486sx.