High Treason, on 15 March 2017 - 11:50 AM, said:
I don't really see how you could flaw my English there to be honest. Sure, if you listen to me in real life, you'll hear some local dialect, but my writing is generally good.
Muslims? Don't look at me, I've voted BNP and UKIP for years, but nobody else listened and they'd rather deliberately turn a blind eye than admit they're wrong. Fuck Islam.
LOL, dude, I'm busting your balls. I know you've swallowed the red pill

. Mad props for BNP

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Tea Monster, on 15 March 2017 - 01:09 PM, said:
LOL. If by 'innovate' you mean buying a shit-ton of M-Wave sound/modem cards, and when they found out that they wouldn't fit in their arty-farty cases, cut the end off the card and attached it back as a daughter board. They then ran the whole thing through cobbled-together DOS drivers in Windows 95. If any of the ini files were changed by one line, the thing was dead. In many cases, not even an FDisk/format/reinstall off the master CD would not get it back.
They used M-Wave cards? I fucked with a couple over 15 years ago. I knew IBM sold them at retail, rarely, but Packard Bell used them too? HUGE pieces of shit. Maybe fucking with the drivers is why one of them died on me.
High Treason, on 15 March 2017 - 01:47 PM, said:
Didn't they once get caught putting pre-used sound cards in their machines too?
My last notes are; Yeah, fuck PB's cases though, all that ugly plastic, almost on par with these "gaming cases" that you can buy today. Also a shame they dragged Zenith down with them, Zenith made some kickass gear in their time and hold several notable records.
They did. I personally REALLY like the retro Packard Bell styling, Frog Design of POZ Francisco did the cases and peripherals.
I have a PB Multimedia E153 in my closet. I've had it for 11 years, and I need a donor case BADLY. It has no side panels. I'd love to find a worthy home for it, it's a wonderful computer! Intel made the LPX motherboard, and it has a 2MB S3 ViRGE/325 integrated, as well as MPEG1 capturing, and 256K of L2 cache. It's always been stable and fast as shit. One of the nicest "grocery store" computers I have ever used. I overclocked the 150MHz Pentium to 180 and it was my main DOS system for a few years. I really love the little fucker and I want to revive her BADLY. I'll jam an MMX on her along with a fat heatsink, she doesn't have split voltage support, and do some other nice things.
I'd even transfer over the spec sheet label to the new case if the side panels wouldn't fit - It's still on there!