14 Feb
2013
14 Feb
'13
4:36 p.m.
On 2/14/13 11:38 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Packard Bell was also too late (1986)
They bought the name from Teledyne, and otherwise had no relation to the
respected original Packard Bell company (which dates from the 1920s)
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.
So, who WERE the worst EARLY clones?
There WERE much worse machines than Sanyo. (which suffered more from
incompatability than quality)
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
I would have to say, without a doubt,Packard Bell (actually owned two of
those crap-boxes), early Compaq Presario 'all-in-ones', and PC-Chips mobos.
They were probably some of the worst motherboards to ever come off an assembly
line. Driver support was almost nil, and they seemed to be plagued with hard-
ware problems, i.e. bad capacitors and such. Surprisingly, I never had any
problems with E-machines, other than general configuration stuff and the
occasional 'self-induced' problems. Speaking of Compaq all-in-ones, my sister-
in-law had one of those that ended up costing me about $200 in tech support and
eventually a trip back to Compaq to replace the motherboard because I had the
foresight to open it up and blow some of the dust bunnies out of it before I
upgraded it. They really had heating problems and this one fried the video chip,
and I guess I finished it off when I opened it up. :P
Dave Land
Land Computer Service