Packard Bell Legend 408CD in Operation - The Carter Hour

Originally Purchased in 1995 from Best Buy for approximately $1600 complete:

Original Specifications:
75 MHz Pentium Processor
1 GB Hard Drive
8 MB of Ram
4X CD-ROM
1.44 MB Floppy Drive
Windows 95
15" CRT Monitor with Speakers
Keyboard and Mouse

Modifications:
75 MHz upgraded to 90 MHz overclocked to 133 MHz
AMD OEM Heatsink
8 MB Ram upgraded to 50 MB
1 GB HDD upgraded in 1997 to 2.1 GB Drive ($270.00)
4X CD-ROM upgraded to 24X CD-ROM in 1997
Redhat Linux 5.2 (Apollo)
Linksys EtherLan Card II
Falken BBS

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[Smokepoprocks]

I have the same computer, is it worth anything? otherwise im going to bury mine lol.

[mastermind48451]

@Smokepoprocks Probably Not, just a history piece.

[caroline0204]

what was the original hard drive and what OS was installed on it?

[mastermind48451]

@caroline0204 Please See Description, its all in there, thanks for your comment.

[ae35zzx]

love this video fixing to buy old computer to run linux 5.2 deluxe hope i can get it to work haha

[mastermind48451]

@ae35zzx Just give it a try and find out.

[MusEman246]

WOW.. my iPhone has more than 100 times more ram than this monster :o

[funandthegamemaster]

@Smokepoprocks I wants it!!

[drkinferno72]

was it worth it?

[mastermind48451]

@LunaVorax At this time I have no plans, however that could change. Thanks for your comment.

[LunaVorax]

That was the first real computer I had back in 1995 when I was 5yrs old (a not sure if it was a 408CD but definitely a Packard Bell Legend, mine was 133mhz).

I remember dreaming about how could would it be to surf the internet.

I got the internet at home 9years later. 5years after that I finally dropped Windows to discover the power of Linux and the Unix-like distros.

Do you have any plans for this compy ?