It's the Packard Bell appreciation thread!!!

[Deja Q]

Makers of low quality, proprietary garbage for over 2 decades! (maybe Dell learned from them?)

[mainegreen]

1. Ack! How awful. Are they even still in business?

I hope not.

[NewJeffCT]

2. I had one - and it ended up being subjected to the state "Lemon Law"

It died a few months after I bought it. I brought it in to the licensed repair place and they confirmed the problem and put a new motherboard on order...

and I waited and waited and waited.

Finally, I contacted the state Dept of Consumer Protection and within 2 days, I found that it was covered under the Lemon Law and got a brand new PC for the same price as I had paid for the Packard Bell. Only it was an H-P and it was 9 months newer...

[matcom]

3. ah the Tandy Corp of home computers

never owned one

[Deja Q]

4. And here's the Tandy 1000HX

:D

(I used to own one... but never a TRS-80 (aka the "TRaSh-80"):



)

[MedleyMisty]

5. My first computer was a Packard Bell

My brothers got it for me for my 16th birthday, and we got hooked up to the net a month or so later.

My mother actually still has it and it still sort of works, even though it's 10 and a bit years old now.

Currently we have three computers. A Gateway that was pimped out for gaming two years ago (it's still pretty good, but it doesn't blow game requirements out of the water anymore), the emachines that I'm on right now that's pretty much just used for the net, and my husband's iBook laptop.

[hunter]

6. The first Packard Bell was another company entirely.

It went belly-up along with so much of the U.S. consumer electronics industry. The brand name alone was sold to someone else who slapped it onto computers sold to people who still believed there was a U.S. industry.