10 years

From: Mike <kenziem_at_sympatico.ca>
Date: Sun Oct 6 14:54:01 2002

On Sunday 06 October 2002 13:01, John Allain wrote:
> > I have a PB that I keep as a sample of bad design,
> > along with the IBM Aptiva, and AST Bravo.
>
> Could you expound a bit on its pitfalls?
> I picked up a otherwise nice looking PB P75 this
> weekend for free.

One of the first machines I had to work on was a PB. They had shipped it
without connecting the serial ports to the back of the case. Most of
that shipment was returned with in a week.

My complaints with it are the daughter board and the layout of the
insides, it's very difficult to add an drive to the machine, or change
the one in it. The aptiva has similar problems along with the Mwave
modem/sound-card combo. The Bravo used daughter boards for the soldered
on CPU, and a few of the other add-ons as well as a none standard
motherboard. I view these machines as single use disposable machines.
Received on Sun Oct 06 2002 - 14:54:01 BST