PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

More pics of the Packard Bell before and during the dismantling process...

 

The hard drive from the Packard Bell...



I presently keep my collection of Chevy and GMC truck photos on a Seagate external hard drive...

Best drive I've ever owned!

 

I believe this is the Packard Bell's motherboard...

 

@LocoLocal

About to watch the episode of King of the Hill where Connie gets her first period!

 

Here is the best picture I could find of my dads nice Toyota pickup from 1981.

 

The truck is a 1981, the picture was taken in 1981, or both?

 

This picture was taken in 1989. MY dad bought it used in 1985.

 

I would like to track it down and buy it again, that is if it's not scrapped in a junk yard.

 

It's either well-preserved or rusted to nothing. There's no happy medium with old Toyota trucks!

 

If it still exists, it might possibly run better than my current 2008! This truck was mostly Japanese parts and was manufactured in Japan. I think.

 

Still waiting on the plates! I’ll keep y’all updated.

 

Love your mmr sticker on the back window. Preston and steve are the best. O and nice job

 

Here is the '02 Dell, on which my cousin and I spent hours at a time playing The Sims when we were younger.

 

The Dell was built like a brick shithouse!

 

But it was fairly easy to open up...

 

I was amazed by how much dust there was inside this computer!

 

The Dell's hard drive had a staggering 40GB of space...

I'm amazed it could handle The Sims!

 

I got that sticker from Pierre Robert himself five years ago, at a car show!

 

Don't destroy that Packard Bell. Its probably worth at least $150 in the retro gaming community. Also don't destroy the hard drives. Those smaller drives are worth money now too as older computers won't recognize larger drives that are still easily available. Low level format them if you're worried about sensitive data. I've been liquidating some old late 80's and 90's IBM computers I never got around to recycling 20 years ago and it is unbelievable what people will pay now for a computer of that era. I've gotten over $300 for 386 processor computers.

 

Also, that Dell isn't built like a brick shit house. Its made of flimsy thin metal and plastic. This IBM is built like one. The case is made of 1/8th inch plate steel and weighs nearly 100 lbs. The configuration on this one cost some company more than $20,000 in early 1994.