Mail Archives: opendos/2000/10/30/03:55:55
If you type the following <esc>@a a HP 150 will print "My mind is
going...."
also works on HP 2625 and HP 2628 terminals.
In April 1995 Compaq sued Packard Bell, claiming that Packard Bell was
shipping used parts in its PCs to enable the company to charge lower
prices. Compaq said that Packard Bell even went so far as altering
serial numbers in order to hide what they were doing. Compaq said it
learned about Packard Bell's operations from former Packard Bell
employees. Compaq also alleged false advertising, unfair competition,
and deceptive trade practices. In an earlier suit, compaq sued Packard
Bell for patent infringement.
Packard Bell had just become the leading supplier of personal computers
to the home market in 1994. It stated, "The complaint is totally without
merit and specifically designed to stall Packard Bell's momentumin the
marketplace".
Of course the FTC caught them out because they had a contract operation
in Sacramento which dismantled all their customer returns and tradeins
and repackaged the parts and shipped them over to the Packard Bell
assemby plant, where they were putting drives, video cards, and sound
cards in the boxes coming off the assembly line. They were forced to pay
a large fine, accept returns of any computers a customer was having
trouble with and giveing the customer a new cpu,
and had to sell any returns as used equipment, with a sticker saying This
unit may contain used parts. They still have a connection with the
dismantler in Sacramento.
The company pays $7.00 an hour for dismantlers who mostly work grave
shift.
BOB 'DOMAN' MOSS "The Best of Everything in Software" (Digital Research)
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 16:42:12 -0500 "Glenn McCorkle" <glennmcc AT cisnet DOT com>
writes:
> Hey.... watch it!!!
> I use nothing but PB machines. ;-)
> 486dx2-66 and P150
>
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 07:16:59 -0800, david rust wrote:
>
> > NO PLEASE NOT THE PACKARD BELL TORTURE!
>
> --
> Glenn
> (your friendly neighborhood compu-nerd)
> http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/
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