packard-bell-french-master-cd-6708440602 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4 Year 1997. It's good to know that someone is out there gathering and preserving them. Packard Bell Master CD 6707430101, September 1996, British English. Master CD p/n 6708440602 for Pentium1-based Packard Bell computers sold in French retail stores back in 1997. I'm sure that some of those systems were put away into long-term storage, however, and those are probably the best bet for those looking for "survivors" in good shape.Īnyway, best of luck to the OP! Those all-in-one PCs from about 1994-1998 have a certain historical significance, since they were the industry's first generation of multimedia-capable, Internet-enabled consumer computing devices. The S/N is 008079 or 890500 or GVNT81703063, I dont know which one but I would assume it is the first one. Most of those systems were subsequently scrapped in favor of more generic "white boxes" that were more expandable. I need help finding the appropriate Master CD or Master CD ISO for my Packard Bell Axcel 212 TCD. We saw lots of problems with those proprietary Aztech sound cards that Packard Bell often used (the really long ones with integrated modems and CD-ROM controllers) if one of those integrated components failed, we had to install two or three new cards to replace them all, and the smaller desktop systems often didn't offer enough internal expansion. Such minor upgrades could help someone extend the life of their system for a while, but they weren't enough to keep pace with the rapid growth of PC technology in those years, or the plunging costs of new systems. I remember that our customers were very disappointed that Packard Bell's systems offered so few opportunities for upgrades, beyond very incremental improvements like bigger hard drives and more memory. Afterward, I worked as a PC tech for a few years, and people were upgrading Packard Bell systems (or, more often, junking them) like crazy the shop I was working for got about a dozen of them in a week at one point. A few of the guys in our store had a null modem cable set up between two Packard Bell display units, for playing Doom on the sly. I was working in retail when Packard Bell was at its "peak" saleswise, around 1994-1996. It attempts to reinstall from a recovery partition, so this is essentially useless. However, this doesnt really matter, as the CD doesnt actually hold Windows. This copy has had a check to ensure youre running it on an actual Packard Bell removed, allowing anyone to run it. I imagine that it must be a challenge to find complete Packard Bell "specimens" all these years later. This is a copy of a Packard Bell Master Recovery CD from August 1998. Packard Bell sold the same systems under different names and model numbers, depending on the distributor.
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