[Request] Old Packard Bell Master CD
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I'm looking for an old Packard Bell European Master CD and its associated boot floppy included with some models of Packard Bell computers (Legend, Axcel, Executive 8900 & 9500 series, Force, All-in-One Spectria) in 1995.
Pic of the CD :
Or more precisely from the 486-DX2/DX4 and Pentium 60/75MHz era.
Motherboard : PB450, PB520
Hard disk : 340MB / 420MB / 528MB (maybe 800MB)
Memory : 4MB or 8MB
Video : Cirrus Logic 5428/5429/5434
Sound 16A
It's a red multilingual CD (English / French / German) bundled with following applications :
- Windows for Workgroups 3.11
- MS-DOS 6.22
- MS Works 3.x
- MS Money 3.x
- Sage Moneywise
- Disk Image
- PB Navigator 2.x
- MS Windows Entertainement Pack (Skifree, Rodent's Revenge..)
- 3D Body, 3D Dinosaur, Kid's Zoo, Undersea / Speed / Space Adventure (Knowledge Adventure)
- MegaRace
- Groliers Encylopedia
- Language Learning with Asterix
- Beethoven's 5th Symphony
- Leonardo the Inventor
- Early Jazz Legends
- Worls Atlas
- US Atlas
...
Thanks.
Pic of the CD :
Or more precisely from the 486-DX2/DX4 and Pentium 60/75MHz era.
Motherboard : PB450, PB520
Hard disk : 340MB / 420MB / 528MB (maybe 800MB)
Memory : 4MB or 8MB
Video : Cirrus Logic 5428/5429/5434
Sound 16A
It's a red multilingual CD (English / French / German) bundled with following applications :
- Windows for Workgroups 3.11
- MS-DOS 6.22
- MS Works 3.x
- MS Money 3.x
- Sage Moneywise
- Disk Image
- PB Navigator 2.x
- MS Windows Entertainement Pack (Skifree, Rodent's Revenge..)
- 3D Body, 3D Dinosaur, Kid's Zoo, Undersea / Speed / Space Adventure (Knowledge Adventure)
- MegaRace
- Groliers Encylopedia
- Language Learning with Asterix
- Beethoven's 5th Symphony
- Leonardo the Inventor
- Early Jazz Legends
- Worls Atlas
- US Atlas
...
Thanks.
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If its just for nostalgia then you would almost certainly have more luck downloading the individual components. Note that none of that software is likely to run on a modern computer unless you setup a virtual machine or something.
Just for nostalgia's sake http://postimg.org/image/z4rw5dl6x/
Some softwares, like PB OEM stuff, can not be downloaded individually.
@mac2708 : I saw this torrent but the CD isn't in my language and there's no seeder.
They won't supply it, pre-XP recovery media wasn't available when I worked for DSG and that was about 8-9 years back. It's all down to what their licensing from MS will allow them to redistribute.
That has a lot of downloadable software form that era
I just used to love Microsoft works.
I'm also very skeptical that DOS & Win 3.11 was even distributed on CD I only ever saw it on floppy disk, I even received my first few copies of Win 95 on 3.5" floppies, all 18 of them :eek:.
I'm pretty sure that you are wasting your time here and need to discover some sort of historical group that has a website where you may be able to get anything from this far back in the past.
It came on a CD and floppy.
Thanks Neo,
It would have to be both CD and floppy though, PC's of that vintage didn't boot from CD and even up to Win98 (and I seem to remember early versions of Win2K) you had to boot into DOS from a floppy before you could use the CD drive to install Windows.
For Win 3.11 I would hazard a guess that you would need to install DOS 6 from the floppies making sure that MSCDEX was in autoexec.bat and you had suitable drivers for the CD-ROM (which were all different ) in config.sys before you could even think of putting in a CD to install from.
That's why I was skeptical, CD-ROMs in those days weren't that easy to use.
- MS-DOS 6.22
- MS Works 3.x
- MS Money 3.x
- Sage Moneywise
- Lotus Organizer
- Disk Image
- PB Navigator 2.x
- MS Windows Entertainement Pack (Skifree, Rodent's Revenge..)
- 3D Body, 3D Dinosaur, Kid's Zoo, Undersea / Speed / Space Adventure (Knowledge Adventure)
- The Four Seasons of French Cuisine
- Cyberia Mission Norway (Interplay)
- Multimedia Maestro (Software Dynamics)
- Learn French with Asterix (Eurotalk)
- Beethoven's 5th Symphony
- MS Encarta 95
- MS Fine Artist
OMG look at the prices of computers back then! How much would that computer cost now in 2013 money? :eek: I actually used to have a Packard Bell machine. It was one of my first computers. It was upgraded to Windows 95 though rather than 3.1. How did we ever manage with 4MB RAM and a 528MB hard drive?
The biggest oxymoron ever
I have a lot of ads like this one if you want.
I don't think it came with a Master CD as it was a hand-me-down from my aunt. We didn't have as much money at the time It was a UK model. I'd love to see more ads like that one
Models :
Executive 8901, 8903, 8907, 8909T, 8910, 9501, 9502, 9506
Legend Elite 105S, 102HW, 445G, 900
CD33S & CD50D
What you want is an inflation calculator:
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1633409/Historic-inflation-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.html
Roughly, add a grand onto those 1995 prices to get today's price... My first pc, the Time horror, was about £1500 back then... ugh...
Thanks for the link. I'll see what I can do. I'm absolutely hopeless when it comes to maths but I'll try and come up with something Time Computers were really crap, weren't they? Complaints about them and Tiny used to fill the pages of Computeractive.