At the time, price was everything. With the latest and greatest PC often $4000 and up, or in the $8000 and up range when the 386 came along, if you could get a

At the time, price was everything. With the latest and greatest PC often $4000 and up, or in the $8000 and up range when the 386 came along, if you could get a Packard Bell for $1000 then you’d take it.