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In article <30E99B94.6E9E@jax.jaxnet.com>, Beddingfield
<habedd@jax.jaxnet.com> wrote:
[snip]

> Microsoft only makes their money b/c of advertisement and inflated 
> prices.  Apple/Mac would have been better off now if they had publicized 
> their code earlier so more software would be available.  Microsoft also 
> is well off financially b/c of their monopoly with vendors (Packard Bell 
> and all those piece of crap store computers).  Packard Bell is sort of 
> like Windows, though.  Their computers were built soley for 
> advertisement.  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.  They're now 
> one of the best selling computers for people first buying a computer b/c 
> they're at WalMart's and KMart's all over.
> 
Packard-Bell made television sets and other electronics many years
ago.  It eventually folded and the present owners bought the name.
The Bells were a well-known family in LA.

-- 
Don McKenzie, Hollywood, CA
"The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself
is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all
evil that is in the world."   Max Born, physicist.