Acer owns them now. I think they only use that name in Europe. Before moving back to Utah, 22 years ago, I worked at a computer store that was an authorized service center for Packard Bell. They refused to pay for most of it so we dropped them. I am guessing they did that to many others.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Joseph Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Steve Alligood <[email protected]> > wrote: > > back in the day, Sears sold these and Compaq computers, with a 4% > commission on the Compaq and a 12% commission on the Packard Bell. Of > course, Compaq had a 5% return rate, while Packard Bell had a 25% return > rate. > > > > There were good reasons why they left the US market in 2000. > > There are definitely good reasons why PB left the market, and I for > one don't miss them. But I have heard numerous reports that the few > notebooks that they released were generally really solid. > Unfortunately, they weren't really in the notebook market. Let's all > just be glad they never entered the server market. > > -- > "In order to create, you have to have the willingness, the desire to > be challenged, to be learning." -- Ferran Adria (speaking at Harvard, > 2011) > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
