Startup a 30 year old Computer in 2023

It boots so fast!

Do you ever use modern SSD's on these vintage systems?

If I were you, I would install Linux archlinux interface xfce . I would remove this windows (garbage)

Imagine if you decided to do a video of yourself playing One Must Fall 2097 as Crystal...

The sounds of my childhood

I love the sound of old pcs. I mean the hardware. The floppy drive sound still rings nostalgically in my ears. .

What a fossil, yet it still works. 😄😄🐲

do you sell or just have a huge stockpile?

The Windows 3.1 startup sound will never not be funny to me

Old but gold. 😊

Oh Gott ich merke gerade wie alt ich bin 😞

For a moment there I expected to hear the modem and see AOL connect back in time to the old AOL.

DOOM god mode? haha

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?

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I mean it's old but still can do the basic things a person may need. I loved Packard Bell

A trip down memory lane
My first pc was a Dick Smith system 80 with 16k of onbord memory; a trs80 clone

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 this new?😮

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.

This thing looks so clean and precious. And 1993 is not already 30 years ago. 😭

it's for sale?

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.

The plastic haven't turned yellow in all these years. 😀

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.

Play Minesweeper

I can still smell this new out of the box 😊

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! 😎

I had an old Packard Bell from 1998 and this video brought back old memories. I loved using that PC.

Tadaa!

I remember Packard Bells were notorious for their poor reliability. Seeing it now I am nostalgic though.

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 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…

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. :)

My first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-8] Model III back ca. 1982

Talk about a trip down memory lane!

the snow game lol

Muito bom , pura nostalgia 💻💻

My first computer my mom got me for graduation

Killing certain monsters in Doom sounds like killing camel riders in Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition - practically the same camel vocalization sounds.

Do they still sell these beauties somewhere?

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 love this old PC...time not back ...

Wow omg

The PC tower looks great, it hasn't yellowed at all! Also, the HDD is so quiet!

Wow, you can afford one of those fancy LCD Monitors!

Love watching old tech starting up and the sounds they make.

Oyyyy mine😮😁

Never had a Packard Bell. Looks like top notch quality PC and it’s quiet. MIDI sound. 😌