that’s really not the point of the article though. Agreed?
HP was a great company when the founders were running it. I work in a R&D lab of a large semiconductor company, and I use HP (now Agilent) equipment to this day, but dealing with that vender has really deteriorated over the past 10 years since the Agilent spin-off. I don't even want to think about the consumer electronics side of the company.
There were giants in those days.