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. ;)

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



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