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Old 5th August 2008
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Originally Posted by dk_netsvil View Post
... I was given a Packard-Bell which was the most temperamental and poorly designed machine I have used to date. I can't remember the model, but I think it was a Pentium 100 MHz processor. Thus began a very long and very dark period of disassembling the PC and rebuilding it - and we have come so far.
My first 3 PC machines were Packard Bells starting with an XT turbo 8088 and ending with a Pentium 66Mhz. If it was for the Packard Bell's design I would never would have learned so much about PC internals. I was kind of sad when the went under. Then I was given a Compaq...now their proprietary internals used to drive me crazy!!
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