Subj : Re: First Computer That Ran Synchronet BBS
To   : Nightfox
From : Xerxes
Date : Sun Feb 06 2022 21:33:24

  Re: Re: First Computer That Ran Synchronet BBS
  By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Feb 06 2022 02:44 pm

 > friend who had a Packard Bell computer (a popular model at the time), and
 > the most obvious thing was its proprietary case.  It had a horizontal case,
 > and one time we were looking inside it, and I saw it had a riser board for
 > the expansion cards to be installed horizontally rather than vertically, and
 > if I remember right, it also had an expansion card that was a modem and
 > sound card in one.  I thought it was pretty weird.
 >

My Packard Bell 486DX 50 was *exactly* like this.  I really liked that case too, but it was impossible to upgrade with standard parts.


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