CW> I was a bit of a late starter to the computer world, I   
    CW> didn't get my first PC unil like 1990 I think. It was a   
    CW> Packard Bell 286 with 1 meg of RAM and MS-DOS. It was   
    CW> pretty crappy, and I think it was refurbished. We would   
    CW> often get WDC Adapter failures and have to reboot the PC   
    CW> over and over until it booted properly again. A nightmare,   
    CW> and yet I still miss those days. Funny how we don't notice   
    CW> our own insanity. ;)   
      
    Packard Bell was once a respected name in electronics. Even in   
    computers, at first. Then they came up with some money saving   
    techniques, and their computers were so bad they went out of   
    business in this country. Sad, but the bean counters struck   
    again.   
      
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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