Tech District · VIDEO ESSAY

The Rise and Fall of Packard Bell: The PC Brand Millions of American Families Brought Home

Packard Bell was once one of the biggest names in American home computing. From affordable PCs in millions of family homes to mounting criticism, fierce competition, and its eventual decline, this video explores the dramatic rise and fall of Packard Bell—and how a California computer brand became a defining name of the 1990s PC era.