14 Feb
2013
14 Feb
'13
11:53 a.m.
On 02/14/2013 10:38 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Packard Bell's sales were ALL due to unsavvy
consumers assuming an
affiliation with the original radio company, Hewlett-Packard, Bell Labs,
Bell aircraft, etc.
"An excellent name, on a crappy company."
PCWorld claimed that Packard Bell was the worst of all time.
The funny thing is that there is the PB250 which is a very early
minicomputer (I'll call it that, even though the term didn't yet exist)
and the PB500 PC, related, I suppose, only in that if you bang on the
side of either, you drop bits.
There were definitely some bad PB models, sometimes with used components
in them. The average 5160 Taiwanese clone motherboard, on the other
hand, was pretty respectable. Many have lasted to this day in fine fettle.
--Chuck