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In <30E99B94.6E9E@jax.jaxnet.com> Beddingfield <habedd@jax.jaxnet.com>
writes: 

>  Two businessmen (I think 2, but not sure) got a few 
>computer engineers together and told them to come up with the cheapest

>computer they could build that would actually work.  They then had to 
>come up with a good name.  So, they took the Packard (sp?) out of
Hewlett 
>Packard and the Bell from Ma Bell (obviously) trying to get people to 
>think that the PB was a merger between HP and Bell Phones. 

Packard Bell, the company, has been around for dozens of years...maybe
even
fifty. They made electronic equipment and/or training courses sold by
mail order for many years. Go back to a 1960's or 70's issue of Popular
Electronics or Popular Science magazine and you'll see their ads. The
company went or almost went bankrupt in the mid 80's and was
resurrected
as a low cost PC clone company. I have nothing constructive to say on
the
quality of their PC's (having no first hand knowledge). But your idea
as to where the name came from is totally bogus.

Mike Schmit

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