[rescue] Wow, 30k Graphics Card From Sun
Dave McGuire
mcguire at neurotica.com
Fri Jul 26 21:51:23 CDT 2002
On July 26, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > > Am I the only one that remembers Packard Bell as the company making
> > > good, high quality 386 clones?
> >
> > What universe are YOU from?
>
> Their early machines were actually built quite well. Their 286s were
> extremely well-shielded and very expandable. Their 386s were a bit
> spotty. The larger ones were okay. The tiny ones (in the form factor
> that was just wider than a 13" monitor) were proprietary crap.
Packard Bell's EARLY machines were built from discrete transistors in
the 1960s. They've been around a *long* time and used build some
pretty nice stuff.
-Dave
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