The 10 Worst PCs of All Time.

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The 10 Worst PCs of All Time
Remember these clunkers? Many of them were so bad they're hard to forget.
By Dan Tynan, PCWorld    Mar 19, 2007 1:00 am
#1. Packard Bell PCs (1986-1996)

A Packard Bell PCWhen PC World decided to name the ten worst PCs of all time, it was a virtual lock that a Packard Bell machine would grace the list at number one. The only question was, which model? It was an impossible choice.    ...

A Packard Bell. No surprise.

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Ha!  Packard Bell being at the top of that list makes me chuckle a bit because I owned two of them.  One was a 486 CPU machine, originally running Window 3.1, and the other was a Pentium running Windows 95.  Even funnier is the fact that Pentium I owned was the Legend 406CD model mentioned in the article. 

I used the Legend 406CD for a long time, about 7 years as I recall.  During that time, I upgraded the CPU by installing an "overdrive processor" to raise processor speed from 75MHz to 200MHz.  And, I upgraded the hard drive two times and increased RAM from the original 8MB to 128MB (the maximum it would handle).  I also upgraded the OS to Windows 98SE. 

Actually, Packard Bell was a strong seller in the consumer market in the U.S. before it started its rapid decline.  My impression was that they let quality and customer support decline and that was their demise in the market here.