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From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Who is Packard Bell and why are they making clones?
Keywords: Packard Bell PC Clone
Message-ID: <1989Nov3.052840.5457@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: 3 Nov 89 05:28:40 GMT
References: <1153@elmgate.UUCP>
Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA
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In article <1153@elmgate.UUCP> frh@elmgate.UUCP (Frank Hubbell SOFT) writes:
>Who is Packard Bell? Does anyone know anything about them?

They're a TV manufacturer from way back.  They made a nice little mini,
the PB 250, around 1960 that had 22-bit words, delay line memory, a
hard-wired integer square root instruction and almost no lights and switches.
(One read in the octal utility tape from the Flexowriter.)

They sold that product line to Raytheon and went back to TVs for 25 years.
The current Packard Bell computer is some Korean clone.
-- 
John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 864 9650
johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {ima|lotus|spdcc}!esegue!johnl
Massachusetts has over 100,000 unlicensed drivers.  -The Globe