14 Feb
2013
14 Feb
'13
11:58 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus" <sales at elecplus.com>
To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:21 PM
Subject: RE: Who were the worst of the worst?
From a standpoint of local computer repairs for the
past 15 years, Packard
Bell (we called them Crappy Bells) were absolutely the worst. Gateway PI
and PII machines, Emachines 486 thru PIII, and HP and Compaq laptops 486
thru P4 are a close second. The Compaq Presario 1200 was notoriously bad
(a
Windows 98 machine); mine had to be sent back to Compaq 3 times, after
which
I told them to replace it with something else. They did, and I had no
more
problems. We have replaced countless HP and Compaq motherboards over the
years due to bad caps. Dell P4 machines also had a run of bad caps when
the
usual supply ran out, and they switched vendors.
My first new brand name PC was a Packard Bell 286, they were selling like
crazy at Sears because they were cheap. It was reliable for me, and to a
friend I sold it to when I built my first 386. They did have crappy
keyboards and the worst monitors out there (.39DP VGA for example when most
others were using .28). You get what you pay for , and that was at a time
when there was a decent profit margin to be made selling cheap computers.