{"id":45,"date":"2012-09-07T21:38:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T01:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computeroblivion.com\/testsite\/?p=45"},"modified":"2012-09-07T23:43:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T03:43:46","slug":"packard-bell-force-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.computeroblivion.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Packard Bell Force 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This little computer was a great &#8220;find&#8221;. I was out visiting my favorite local used computer store when I found a big pile of junk in front of the door. Closer inspection revealed that the pile was actually seven or eight Packard Bell 286&#8217;s that the store personnel had stripped of their video cards, and of their 3.5&#8243; floppy and hard drives. They were destined, as it turns out, for the trash. However, much to my joy, they all still had their motherboards, processors, 30 pin memory, 5.25&#8243; drives, power supplies, cases, cables, and screws galore. After getting the store&#8217;s permission, I loaded as many into my car as I could fit, then took them all to work with me.<\/p>\n<p>When I arrived at work, I promptly set about stripping the majority of them for parts. What a goldmine! I have plenty of spare case screws now! I did, however, save the computer with the best case for a rebuild. I cleaned up the parts, and installed a spare 3.5&#8243; floppy and 40meg hard drive. The last thing I dug up for it was an old full-length CGA card. I hooked it up to a keyboard and one of my 5151 MDA monitors, slipped in a boot disk from my 386s, and I&#8217;ll be damned if it didn&#8217;t fire right up.<\/p>\n<p>It currently is running PCDOS 7.0 from IBM. This is my first experience with PCDOS, and so far I really like it. The little Force 1 is a great machine to test things like this on. 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