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Packard Bell Laptops
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Packard Bell was a Dutch radio manufacturer who founded his company in 1926 in Los Angeles. The company was later hired as a defense contractor and other consumer electronics such as TV sets. In 1968, the company was bought by Teledyne. In 1986, a man named Beny Alagem and his investors bought back the name Packard Bell from Teledyne and set them up as manufacturers of low cost personal computers.
The computers they manufacture red were IBM PC compatibles that were available in retail electronic chain stores, Sears being one of them. The computers soon got a reputation as being a poor quality and that reputation only got worse over time. Packard Bell computers used mother boards and power supplies in strange form factors and it made replacement parts very hard to get.
Packard Bell, from time to time benefitted from people misspelling their name, consumers mistook them for Hewlett Packard, Pacific Bell and Bell Labs. In 1996, Packard Bell bought Zenith Data Systems from Groupe Bull. The deal brought in $ 4.5 billion dollars but at the time Compaq was at the top of the computer game. In the year 2000 Packard bell took it’s name out of the computer game here in the United States, you can still get Packard Bell computers in Europe. Here in the United States, they use Packard Bell for TV’s and media players.
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