14 Feb
2013
14 Feb
'13
11:25 a.m.
On Feb 14, 2013, at 1:38 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> 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?
Not exactly clones, and not exactly "early" for some stricter
definitions of the term, but there were a number of woefully
bad motherboards, especially back in the 384/486 era. The
worst I can recall were the PC Chips boards which were both
under-engineered and occasionally contained fake cache chips
and a BIOS that lied about their presence:
http://redhill.net.au/b/b-bad.html
- Dave