14 Feb
2013
14 Feb
'13
1:37 p.m.
Let's not be US centric - I nominate AMSTRAD for one of the worst designed
system boxes. The cables basically blocked all airflow resulting in all
sorts of thermal problems, and the data separator, designed by some UK
consultants who knew nothing about the subject, limit-cycled eating up all
the disk drive margin.
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cisin [mailto:cisin at xenosoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 10:39 AM
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)
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com