My first computer was a Packard Bell (Windows 3.1) my older brother gave to me in 1993, I was 37. I knew almost nothing about them started reading magazines and taught myself about them. I've been mostly building my own since 2002.
I had a Packard Bell tower computer like that one back in the late 90s. It was a Platinum 2240 tower. It was the tower that had the thinner wider base at the bottom. It had a 200MHz Pentium with MMX, 32MB of RAM, 2MB video RAM, and 14.4 modem/sound card combo ISA card. I upgraded it so much that the only original part left was the motherboard and power supply. I upgraded it with mostly Creative Labs hardware. Soundblaster Live PCI soundcard, Modem Blaster 56K/V.92 modem, 3-D Blaster Savage 4 Pro 32MB PCI graphics card, Creative DVD reader drive, and Creative CD Blaster CD-RW drive. I also upgraded the CPU with an Evergreen Technologies Spectra 400 CPU upgrade kit which upgraded it with a 400MHz AMD K6-2 3-D Now CPU upgrade module, and upgraded the RAM to 128MB.
I really enjoy your videos and your shorts. I am 34 and these computers bring many memories of being a kid. My father was an auto tech and had an at home pc repair business. Not huge or anything but I remember sitting with him while he worked on these old computers and the sounds of them starting and even the mouse clicks and keyboard sounds are awesome to hear. I was just looking at old ads for computers from the 90s and it is wild how expensive these things were then
This was my first computer. Packard Bell Pentium 75 with 8MB of RAM, 2 GB hard drive, 14.4 modem, and a 4x CD-ROM. First thing I taught myself was to get rid of the Packard Bell Navigator. :)
Back in the day when the only stuff the kids talked about was asking each other what games they played on the computer over the weekends, and that made some kids who had computers like this very popular back then because they had such cool games. That caused them to have loads of friends and unwanted guests coming over to their house just to play games on the computer.
I just cannot fathom it's been 30 years. I was 11. How?? Why? It's a different lifetime, a different world. Really starting to notice the generation gap. Working with kids born in 2000. - their childhood memories include launching an iPhone when they were 7. It's nuts.
I think I was about 7 in second grade and that was the first time I used a computer that was shared between 2 classrooms. We played Reader Rabbit. I have no idea how I just remembered that name after 30 years.
I still shudder when i see Packard Bell. Terrible machines. Brings back plenty of memories. Its mad when i think of how pc's were back then to cool new toys we have to play with now. What's it gonna be like in another 30 year?
Killing certain monsters in Doom sounds like killing camel riders in Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition - practically the same camel vocalization sounds.
Wahnsinn, ich liebe den Sound von damals :D, wir hatten ab 1999 einen pentium 75Mhz von Siemens Nixdorf als Desktop PC mit dem Passenden 14" Monitor. Auf dem Bord waren 16 MB Ram und im Gehäuse eine 6 GB HDD Verbaut. Wir hatten Windows 98 Verwendet. Ich aber hatte damals einen 386 DX 25 mit 2MB Ram und einer 160MB HDD und Win 3.11 in einem Hightower Gehäuse. In der Werkstatt wo ich Arbeite werden Alte PC´s vom Caritas Verband zerlegt.......... konnte da einen Pentium MMX Sichern und den Passenden RAM Speicher.
And nowadays we need 30 GB just for the OS! So much garbage is incorporated, and things would run better without the inbuilt surveillance junk, even without MINIX in CPU😊😊!
This is great. Basic Windows functions are still the same today, just more polished. Excel is great but still Chokes out at about 1 mill rows. Word Spell/Grammer are astonishingly better but still have the same base programming.
Okay, *this* manages to smash my nostalgia button. The first PC that ended up truly being "mine" was a PB Legend 423CDT (or something extremely similar to it) that had specs extremely similar to this one, just with 16MB of RAM instead of 8. That machine more or less helped kickstart my interest in computing and my career; it's the machine I first tried game creation suites like DCGames and OHRRPGCE on. It was, on reflection, kind of crap in certain ways even when my family got it in 1995, and the pace of technology at the time meant it was seriously obsolent all of a year after it was purchased, but I used it happily for years and never had a proper problem with it, contrary to the reputation Packard Bell developed. So it's nice to see one like this still in working condition 28 years later, especially looking as *clean* as it does. Did you clean it up yourself, or did it come like this? It's impressive either way! Also I'm guessing it didn't come with the PB-branded monitor and speakers, though what you've got is probably superior. Anyway, thank you for the video! Always brightens my day to see one of these old ladies treated right.
OMG SkiFree! I still have a copy of that on a floppy, maybe a thumbdrive now... 😊 Play some Dark Forces on that beast of a computer, it a native DOS game from LucasArts! 😎
All your computers are so unbelievably clean and well preserved, like you just took them out of the box, I love it, are you just a collector or do you also sell these computers?
I love your name!! PC USER 486 😂😂😂😂 if I had my favorite CPU as my name, I'd have to go with 6502 or 65C02, because most of the computers and consoles from the mid to late 70's and 80's used the 6502 CPU or a variant of it… plus it's assembly language is easier than the Intel 80x86/8088 CPU instruction set…
I love the sound of old pcs. I mean the hardware. The floppy drive sound still rings nostalgically in my ears. .
My first computer was a Packard Bell (Windows 3.1) my older brother gave to me in 1993, I was 37. I knew almost nothing about them started reading magazines and taught myself about them. I've been mostly building my own since 2002.
For a moment there I expected to hear the modem and see AOL connect back in time to the old AOL.
I mean it's old but still can do the basic things a person may need. I loved Packard Bell
This thing looks so clean and precious. And 1993 is not already 30 years ago. 😭
Looks better than new pc
I know right. The computer and monitor is so clean for ‘94
I had a Packard Bell tower computer like that one back in the late 90s. It was a Platinum 2240 tower. It was the tower that had the thinner wider base at the bottom. It had a 200MHz Pentium with MMX, 32MB of RAM, 2MB video RAM, and 14.4 modem/sound card combo ISA card. I upgraded it so much that the only original part left was the motherboard and power supply. I upgraded it with mostly Creative Labs hardware. Soundblaster Live PCI soundcard, Modem Blaster 56K/V.92 modem, 3-D Blaster Savage 4 Pro 32MB PCI graphics card, Creative DVD reader drive, and Creative CD Blaster CD-RW drive. I also upgraded the CPU with an Evergreen Technologies Spectra 400 CPU upgrade kit which upgraded it with a 400MHz AMD K6-2 3-D Now CPU upgrade module, and upgraded the RAM to 128MB.
I remember Packard Bells were notorious for their poor reliability. Seeing it now I am nostalgic though.
I had an old Packard Bell from 1998 and this video brought back old memories. I loved using that PC.
Nice vintage setup! Congrats! 👍👍👍
I really enjoy your videos and your shorts. I am 34 and these computers bring many memories of being a kid. My father was an auto tech and had an at home pc repair business. Not huge or anything but I remember sitting with him while he worked on these old computers and the sounds of them starting and even the mouse clicks and keyboard sounds are awesome to hear. I was just looking at old ads for computers from the 90s and it is wild how expensive these things were then
Love watching old tech starting up and the sounds they make.
My Favorite Operating System... so memory in high school incredible ! hum audiostation of Soundblaster !
WOW , thanks for the memories
This was my first computer. Packard Bell Pentium 75 with 8MB of RAM, 2 GB hard drive, 14.4 modem, and a 4x CD-ROM. First thing I taught myself was to get rid of the Packard Bell Navigator. :)
The first Windows system i used. My dad had at work and i would spent hours playing woth it.
Damn...this takes me back 😊
A trip down memory lane
My first pc was a Dick Smith system 80 with 16k of onbord memory; a trs80 clone
Back in the day when the only stuff the kids talked about was asking each other what games they played on the computer over the weekends, and that made some kids who had computers like this very popular back then because they had such cool games. That caused them to have loads of friends and unwanted guests coming over to their house just to play games on the computer.
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That brings back memories. :D
What a good collection. You are Amazing. Greetins from Italy. Beautiful channel and beatiful you..
Oh the proprietary packered bell
*Packard
All your Videos are Beautiful....im in heaven watching your Videos 👌👍👏
Never had a Packard Bell. Looks like top notch quality PC and it’s quiet. MIDI sound. 😌
Talk about a trip down memory lane!
I just cannot fathom it's been 30 years. I was 11. How?? Why? It's a different lifetime, a different world. Really starting to notice the generation gap. Working with kids born in 2000. - their childhood memories include launching an iPhone when they were 7. It's nuts.
I think I was about 7 in second grade and that was the first time I used a computer that was shared between 2 classrooms. We played Reader Rabbit. I have no idea how I just remembered that name after 30 years.
Windowing system is faster than all modern computers
I can still smell this new out of the box 😊
The PC tower looks great, it hasn't yellowed at all! Also, the HDD is so quiet!
I still shudder when i see Packard Bell. Terrible machines. Brings back plenty of memories. Its mad when i think of how pc's were back then to cool new toys we have to play with now. What's it gonna be like in another 30 year?
Killing certain monsters in Doom sounds like killing camel riders in Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition - practically the same camel vocalization sounds.
Toller Kanal. Ich habe noch meinen ersten Laptop von 1994. Ein 386DX mit Windows 3.1.1 aber damals mit Windows 95 Update
It boots so fast!
Wahnsinn, ich liebe den Sound von damals :D, wir hatten ab 1999 einen pentium 75Mhz von Siemens Nixdorf als Desktop PC mit dem Passenden 14" Monitor. Auf dem Bord waren 16 MB Ram und im Gehäuse eine 6 GB HDD Verbaut. Wir hatten Windows 98 Verwendet. Ich aber hatte damals einen 386 DX 25 mit 2MB Ram und einer 160MB HDD und Win 3.11 in einem Hightower Gehäuse. In der Werkstatt wo ich Arbeite werden Alte PC´s vom Caritas Verband zerlegt.......... konnte da einen Pentium MMX Sichern und den Passenden RAM Speicher.
My first computer course, I started in 3.1. In the middle of the course, the school upgraded to 95. I literally had to change the system
I love this old PC...time not back ...
And nowadays we need 30 GB just for the OS! So much garbage is incorporated, and things would run better without the inbuilt surveillance junk, even without MINIX in CPU😊😊!
also, in win 3.11, you can double click the upper left corner of a window to close it. it still works even in windows 11
4:25 I forget all about Fuji Golf and Rodent's Revenge.😮😮
4:27 U.S. Ski Team Skiing, for Intellivision by Mattel electeonics, probably inspired this skiing game.
In 1994 I would die for a color monitor! :)
I forget all about Paintbrush. I haven't seen it in 23 or 24 years, when we got a Windows XP.
The sounds of my childhood
I wonder who put that slightly skewed Siemens label on the NEC display - did it ship with a Siemens computer?
What a fossil, yet it still works. 😄😄🐲
My first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-8] Model III back ca. 1982
Old but gold. 😊
This is great. Basic Windows functions are still the same today, just more polished. Excel is great but still Chokes out at about 1 mill rows. Word Spell/Grammer are astonishingly better but still have the same base programming.
Muito bom , pura nostalgia 💻💻
The Windows 3.1 startup sound will never not be funny to me
Okay, *this* manages to smash my nostalgia button. The first PC that ended up truly being "mine" was a PB Legend 423CDT (or something extremely similar to it) that had specs extremely similar to this one, just with 16MB of RAM instead of 8. That machine more or less helped kickstart my interest in computing and my career; it's the machine I first tried game creation suites like DCGames and OHRRPGCE on. It was, on reflection, kind of crap in certain ways even when my family got it in 1995, and the pace of technology at the time meant it was seriously obsolent all of a year after it was purchased, but I used it happily for years and never had a proper problem with it, contrary to the reputation Packard Bell developed.
So it's nice to see one like this still in working condition 28 years later, especially looking as *clean* as it does. Did you clean it up yourself, or did it come like this? It's impressive either way! Also I'm guessing it didn't come with the PB-branded monitor and speakers, though what you've got is probably superior.
Anyway, thank you for the video! Always brightens my day to see one of these old ladies treated right.
i just went from 6 to midnight!!!! brings me back to being a kid
Good old 3.1 one of my favorites using dos and this
Wow, you can afford one of those fancy LCD Monitors!
Properly installed healthy beauty.
Haha, this Monitor reminds me to my job at Siemens in Fürth Bislohe 1993
OMG SkiFree! I still have a copy of that on a floppy, maybe a thumbdrive now... 😊 Play some Dark Forces on that beast of a computer, it a native DOS game from LucasArts! 😎
@2:30 LOL isn't that the inspiration for Microsoft Bob?
Do they still sell these beauties somewhere?
All your computers are so unbelievably clean and well preserved, like you just took them out of the box, I love it, are you just a collector or do you also sell these computers?
Pentium in 1993 would have been very nice.
I love your name!! PC USER 486 😂😂😂😂 if I had my favorite CPU as my name, I'd have to go with 6502 or 65C02, because most of the computers and consoles from the mid to late 70's and 80's used the 6502 CPU or a variant of it… plus it's assembly language is easier than the Intel 80x86/8088 CPU instruction set…
My first computer my mom got me for graduation
I would buy a retro computer with Windows 2.1
Imagine if you decided to do a video of yourself playing One Must Fall 2097 as Crystal...
*Coughs * what 30 yrs old computer
yeah, it's 29 or 28 years old PC
let's install a network card and make this thing go online!
Do you ever use modern SSD's on these vintage systems?
Oyyyy mine😮😁
the snow game lol
is so good computer
The plastic haven't turned yellow in all these years. 😀
Wow omg
Para cuándo un gameplay de Sensible soccer y Supaplex. Clasicos de mi infancia con una 486 que le dediqué horas de vicio.
Tadaa!
do you sell or just have a huge stockpile?
Is 30 years in the past the same in 2023 as it was in 1993? Cause it sure seems like it was longer ago back in ‘93.
75 mHz! Monstrosity!
lol why'd you put a siemens sticker on a NEC monitor
I gues _he_ like Siemen?
it's for sale?
Play Minesweeper
pentium 75 is over-powered from windows 3.11lol
DOOM god mode? haha
First view!
ala
Salaa malaikum
9:46 cheater lol
If I were you, I would install Linux archlinux interface xfce . I would remove this windows (garbage)
Michelle, can you show a classic Vista build complete with 16:10 monitor? Take us all the way back to 2007!
Yes coming soon 🔜 😊
based!
Oh GOD! :O
I haven't Canyon.mid this millenium!
Oh Gott ich merke gerade wie alt ich bin 😞