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. -Steve On Jan 7, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Joshua Marsh wrote: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Daniel Fussell <dfuss...@byu.edu> wrote: > >> You're certain you bought a Packard Bell? They were often confused with >> other machines, like a Hewlett Packard machine, a Macintosh machine, a >> sewing machine, a scanner, an abacus and a deck of playing cards... >> > > haha! I found a pic of the model I had: > > http://img816.imageshack.us/img816/9060/legend100cd.jpg > > I remember thinking how versatile it was being able to screw the speakers > into the monitor or leave them off to the side. The mouse buttons were wavy > which I took to be "modern". I convinced my mom that getting our own modem > from Ultimate Electronics would make AOL exponentially faster. How times > have changed.
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