Who were the worst of the worst?

On 2/14/2013 1:04 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: "In 1986, Israeli investors bought the name for a newly formed personal computer manufacturer. Originally the company produced discount computers in the US and Canada. When it left the North American computer industry in 2000," REading over more of what is there I do recall a fuss about them trashing windows, but they tried to put up a startup thing to assist buyers in the center of the bell curve with no chance of figuring out the product. Microsoft forced that off by changing their licensing, and everyone had only some useless buttons to add, which made the PB marketing people and I think one other obnoxious sort to look the same (as the article points out) as everyone else. With an inferior product, the crashed and regrouped. I know at least them leaving involved this area (Southern California) because the Packard Bell junk wave was one of many I can name. Not as useful as most, but did produce a lot of cheap video cards, and the like. I think they had something going in Thousand Oaks from some memory. The article says a call center in Utah, but that was unlikely to have any shipping involved. The investors were Israeli from the article, not sure if they drove tanks. as a thread hijack if anyone reads this far, name the "junk waves" you have seen / are seeing. I mean if one junk dealer has it they all have it. In Orange County Packard bell was one. Kaypro Grid Drivetec 2 or three OC based S-100 operations. Vector Hamliton liquidating their Sun hardware / design consulting division. In the Bay area: Who remembers the Godbout Auction in Santa Clara, trying to pump up business at one of the swap meets there. Later same when compupro sold out and crashed. One of my friends and I visited on it years ago, and he said "they won't consider me as a viable supplier of parts when they have money and are on the way up, why should I treat them special when they are screwed and come to me with junk". Jim