-=> JEAN PARROT wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-
 
 JP>      Good morning, Wayne.

 WC> Mine is low profile desk top.
 WC> Had me stumped for a time until on a hunch I unscrewed one
 WC> screw that obviously held the subchassis and two that appeared to
 WC> hold the main chasis together.

 JP>         Ha ! ha ! that is it. I still have one of those too and it is a
 JP>         bugger to get at the MoBo as all the devices sit on top of it.
 JP>         The towers are a much easier setup to work on.

Oh I don't know, mileage may vary.
I can move everything from this low profile 
Packard Bell into my original P.B. computer's desktop chassis and case
and mount two accessable hard drives in addition to A and the 
CD-ROM but that's contingent on finding a reliable source for cheap 
used drives otherwise it's not worth the effort.
There's actually room for yet a third hard drive to be kludged in.
I've an NEC Pentium tower here and everything is in the way.
Worst bit is per my research they ID the motherboard
on the underside so I'll have to remove absolutely everything,
motherboard included to get at that M.B. ID number to research 
how far I can push that salvaged puppy. Just to replace the CMOS
battery I'll have to pull out the A drive and all the hardware for 
mounting the CD-ROM and hard drives.
Of course Packard Bell and NEC are proprietary systems
and as such aren't laid out for the average computerphile
who wants to mess around with things a bit.
On the Plus side because people get fed up with these systems
and toss them, I trade some sweat equity and haven't had to buy a 
component in over 6 years.
This changes in January when I buy a large hard drive new and possibly
two used ones for the Packard Bell which may well become, again, a 
DOS - Win 3.1 - Linux dual boot platform.
The NEC will become Win 98 - Linux dual boot.
 
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