10 Jun
1998
10 Jun
'98
2:48 p.m.
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, John Higginbotham wrote:
Packard Bell: Today's headache, tomorrow's
obscure collectible. Hey, you
never know: People might start collecting only the badly designed systems.
It could happen.
It's already happening. Most people that I've talked to that had to use
the Altair hated it because of design problems. The Apple Lisa failed
because it was too slow. It's kind of self-fullfilling rarity: a bad
computer generally means one that they didn't make many of and not many
people wanted to buy. The PC-Jr will probably be a prized collectible.
If VW's Bug can make a come-back, why not Packard Bell's bugs?
-- Doug