Replying to a message of BOB KLAHN to CRYSTAL WALTERS:

 CW>> I was a bit of a late starter to the computer world, I
 CW>> didn't get my first PC unil like 1990 I think. It was a
 CW>> Packard Bell 286 with 1 meg of RAM and MS-DOS. It was
 CW>> pretty crappy, and I think it was refurbished. We would
 CW>> often get WDC Adapter failures and have to reboot the PC
 CW>> over and over until it booted properly again. A nightmare,
 CW>> and yet I still miss those days. Funny how we don't notice
 CW>> our own insanity. ;)

 BK>  Packard Bell was once a respected name in electronics. Even in
 BK>  computers, at first. Then they came up with some money saving
 BK>  techniques, and their computers were so bad they went out of
 BK>  business in this country. Sad, but the bean counters struck
 BK>  again.

The outfit that put the Packard Bell label on its computers was/is totally unrelated
to the defunct, highly respected, electronics manufacturer.  It picked up
the abandoned
trademark and used it.

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