Who were the worst of the worst?

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. -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Fred Cisin Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 12:39 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Who were the worst of the worst? 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 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2899 / Virus Database: 2639/6103 - Release Date: 02/14/13 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2899 / Virus Database: 2639/6103 - Release Date: 02/14/13