(Packard Bell, The Netherlands) A major PC manufacturer that is the consumer brand of NEC Computers International and the home computing market leader in the U.K. and much of Western Europe.

The stickers' authenticity can hardly be guaranteed; if you still have a Packard Bell PC, it might now be worth more than you paid for it. Previously: • Thousands of vintage computers emerge ...

Also in 1939, William Hewlett and Dave Packard founded Hewlett ... The transistor is now known as the computer processor. In 1956, Shockley left Bell and founded his own company — Shockley ...