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This site is simply a collection of information about Packard Bell that I have collected from around the internet or based on my personal experiences with products and services.
When I bought my system the 133 MHZ pentiums were going for greater then $2,000. There was no way we could ever afford something like a computer, so we charge it (we finally paid that credit card off in April 1998, Thank God). Because we were charging it price was an issue, so we bought a Packard Bell which was significantly less then any competitors similar models.
This was my first real computer, all I had ever owned before was a Vic 20 back when I was 12. I have had no formal training in computers, I basically tough myself everything I know (including the html to make this web site). I work as a Household Hazardous Waste Specialist during the day and spend some of my spare time making this web site, unfortunately I don't have too much spare time or the site could be a lot better.
As time went on I wanted to upgrade, but the information from Packard Bell did not tell me enough so I turned to the net to find my answers. All I could find for the longest time was Packard Hell pages and PB sucks pages. I thought I bought the worst computer in the whole world after reading those pages. They made me feel so bad and offered nothing for advice, they simply wanted to complain.
Eventually I ended up finding a place on the web called PBUser. PBUser was great, everything I ever needed was there in the free message base, plus they had a number of free pages on various Packard Bell topics. I was all set and I upgraded my L2 cache and I thought I had a decent little computer.
The next thing that happened was someone opened the PB Newsgroups (which I love and recommend you all visit) and Aaron announced the end to the free side of the PBUser site. I did not know what I was going to do. My wife would kill me if I asked for a membership to PBUser, I already spent enough on this computer. So I found a page where you could get a free membership to PBUser if you wrote a web page on various topics. I wrote "How to change the Start Menu in Windows 95" and submitted it hoping for a free membership. Eventually I got an email back from Aaron saying that the free membership program was discontinued.
What could I do now? I decided that I spent 3 hours writing my first web page and it was not going to waste. I found geocities where I could post web pages for free and I followed the instructions they gave to create my first web site. The original site was my Environmental Science web site and a page about the PB 640 System. This was all located off my Environmental Science Web Site.
The Packard Bell section started out as nothing more then ONE web page of what I could do to upgrade my Packard Bell computer, how to tune it up and to maintain it. As time went buy I kept getting more and more info. Then I expanded to a few pages, created the Wintune Project and PB 2020 pages. What I could not believe was that people were coming to my web site and they would help me out by giving me information to add. I was also fascinated that people were interested in the information I have posted.
Eventually the site became many pages and people were asking me to make pages for their systems, so I did. Then I created this site to hold all these new pages. The response from all my visitors has been great, your many encouragement and thank you keep me going. If it were not for your thank you notes and encouragement I might have continued to keep these pages going. I probably would have wrote web pages on a different subject (Such as Environmental Science or Religion). More then once I was ready to shut the site down, because it is so much much work.
In the Spring of 1998 I began reviewing products and reporting my experiences to the visitors of my web site. PowerLeap was the first company to allow me to review their product. Since that time I have reviewed products for Evergreen Technologies, and Unicore Software. I can review a product for your company if you want, read this web page for details.
Eventually the site may be big enough where I can do something serious with it. But for now this is where I will stay. Make sure you subscribe to my newsletter so you will know about any important changes to my site and get the latest information on Packard Bell.
For example, if my site displays 1000 banners, then my LinkExchange account earns 500 credits, and their system will display my banner 500 times on other LinkExchange member sites.
I hope you all do not mind, I am simply trying to get the word out to others which is hard to do as the internet is a big place. Think of it this way, for every two banners you see on my site, you are allowing one other person to see my add and for every 155 or so of my adds shown I get one visitor. Hopefully they are another Packard Bell Owner that needs some help and will find my site useful. I think the viewing of this add is a small price to pay to help other Packard Bell Owners find my site. I get no money from the internet Link Exchange.
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