[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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