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he was right. ugly and SLOWWWWW...

looks like a Compaq. searched google for images for '1998 compaq persario desktop' which is what it looked like to me. results are HERE and i see a few that match. best of luck.
 
Looks like a Presario 5150 to be exact ;-)

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Japanese spec-sheet - http://www.inversenet.co.jp/pclist/product/COMPAQ/SC515000.html
 
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