Hmm, the BIOS infers that they are the same Packard Bell that made TV's and radios, but it's not.. :/ That's strange.
I remember seeing fine print in Packard Bell computer ads saying that they had no affiliation with any other companies using the same name. I took that to mean they had no affiliation with the Bell telephone companies (given the "listening to us" slogan), since I was young enough that I had never heard of or seen any Packard Bell radios or TVs.
As Wikipedia says, my confusion -- even having read that disclaimer -- was not uncommon: "Packard Bell sometimes benefited from misplaced name recognition, with consumers (especially first-time computer buyers) and even some salespeople erroneously associating the company with others of similar name, such as Hewlett-Packard, Pacific Bell, and Bell Laboratories. Packard Bell's old slogan, 'America grew up listening to us. It still does', may have facilitated the confusion."
