Acer, Gateway Continue To Roll Up Every Has-Been PC Maker
from the who-else-is-out-there...? dept
Anyone have a circa 1993 copy of Computer Shopper magazine/catalog out there? You might want to open to any random old page and see who Gateway is going to merge with next. Back in August, Acer announced plans to buy Gateway -- and while the announcement included some info about intentions to also roll Packard Bell into the deal, that part of the deal has only just been confirmed. Basically, Acer is giving Gateway the money to buy Packard Bell, which will then be included in the Acer acquisition. Of course, Gateway also bought eMachines a few years back, though that's one company that didn't exist back in the 1993 Computer Shopper era. However, if you do remember Computer Shopper in those days, it was dominated by ads from these companies, along with Dell and Micron. Are there still any other mostly forgotten also-ran PC makers from the early 90's that are available for the new Acer/Gateway/PackardBell to buy?Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: computers
Companies: acer, gateway, packard bell
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Micron...
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Packard Bell
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But I really did, back around '98. I learned the majority of my PC troubleshooting skills doing phone tech support for them. Once you knew how to finagle those machines, they really weren't too bad, but I felt bad for the end user who didn't have our resources.
As for computer companies to buy..is Kaypro still around to buy? My first PC was an 8088 Kaypro...
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Packard Bell
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As a matter of fact, it was my first comp, lowly little 75mhz Pentium running dos and windows 3.11. Those were the days.
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Having worked in retail the past few years in computers, I can tell you Acers/Gateways/e-machines blow major balls. I think id rather not have a computer and use the type writer and newspaper
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old computers that haven't died...
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I had a Packard-Bell 486 with a whopping 420 MB hard drive, 4 MB RAM and a super-speedy 2x CD-ROM. It never gave me a problem. Over the years, I upgraded the HDD, RAM, CD, video memory and processor -- even managed to replace the BIOS after a failed flashing -- still with no difficulties whatsoever.
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All of google and this is the only instance of text I could find on Canon desktop computers.
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It was a 286 that ran at the blazing speed of 8MHz, and had 1K of RAM, the max available. All DOS could use was 640K, so I used the balance for a disk cache (smartdrv). Hard drive was a whopping 20MB - I thought I'd never be able to fill that sucker up. It was very reliable.
PCs Limited later changed it's name to Dell.
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rollup KB3172985 KB3172988 emachine
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