Hello,

The system I am working on is very old. Packard Bell 486 33 Mghtz. I'm not sure if it's a DX or SX. System is not in front of me at this time. I installed 32 megs of 72 pin ram which is max for it (the good news is it can handle 72 pin ram at 70NS and I got tons of that old stuff). It says on a original sticker on the box that it's a Pack-Mate 1918C. It originally had a 200 meg hard drive and windows 3.11 loaded. I loaded Windows 95 OSR2 on it, on a wd 850 meg drive and it went pretty smooth / no problems. The video has to go to make this internet capable as it can do 800x600 at only 256 colors. Otherwise I have to drop down to 640X480 resolution to get more colors. Both senarios are bad for displaying current internet content. For now I am going to go with 800X600 resolution and 256 colors.

The bios has a limitation of 540 meg hard drive. I used a 850 meg old WD I had laying around and the ezdrive overlay program to work around the bios limitation. Couldn't find a bios flash for it.

Most of the information on this machine is no longer available from just about any sources on the internet. Any help anybody can give such as links to information, I would surely appreciate it.

This system is probably not worth the effort but I cannot scrap it for parts (the parts simply arn't worth anything) and I hate to throw it away and create more landfill. It still has very limmited life in it. I think people who are poor or of not very much money can still use it. Since the internet is free up here I would really like a family with children be able to use it for school work and such.

So if you can link me to some info on this system I would appreciate it. Thanks