Posted on 03/09/2010 12:22:04 AM PST by UAConservative
The granddaughter of one of Hewlett-Packard’s founders wrote a letter Monday trashing California GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina’s leadership of the company.
Arianna Packard, the granddaughter of HP co-founder David Packard, wrote the letter to the three Republican senators who recently endorsed Fiorina – James Inhofe and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma as well as Jon Kyl of Arizona – over former Rep. Tom Campbell and state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore.
Packard has a long feud with Fiorina, publicly criticizing her leadership of the company and pushing for her ouster in 2005. In 2002, Packard teamed with Bill Hewlett – son of co-founder Walter Hewlett – in an attempt to kill Fiorina’s planned merger with Compaq.
“As I'm sure you've seen over the past year, voters don't like Senators who don't read bills before they vote on them,” Packard wrote in a letter first posted on the conservative blog RedState. “Voters (and donors) also don't like Senators who get involved in contested primaries, especially without having done their homework. I would respectfully suggest that in the future you conduct more detailed research on candidates before endorsing them.”
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Absolutely. HP used to be a great company that produced outstanding products. It’s unfortunate that she was able to just walk away after the damage she did to it. If she’d have been a man, she’d never have been able to live it down. (I know that sentance looks weird.) I wouldn’t vote for this affirmative-action hire if she were the last politician on the planet.
Well, that's partially true. They also had a lot of specialized hardware for different niche applications. I really wish I still had a copy of HP's "Test and Measurement" catalog. It was a hard-bound volume with just about every type of hardware you could imaging. At the time I was drooling over their atomic clock. At one time HP actually made more processors than any other company on the planet. No one knew it, because they don't really think about the fact that things like ociliscopes and other test equipment are actually computers in their own right.
There are folks out there still using 30 year old calculators made by HP.
Fiorina and I went to same High School.
Fiorina is a walking disaster, she has no business, if the GOP is remotely serious about governance, being on the ballot. If in the entire state of California, this is the best they can muster, then they deserve to lose the state.
This woman needs gone, ASAP.
Yup. See my previous post on this.
I recall back in the day, when the Coyote series of hard drives was being introduced. HP requested that any failure in the field be shipped back to them so they could run forensics on exactly why it failed so they could make them better.
We used HP-1000 computers at the company I worked at into the late 80s and early 90s because they were good at what they did, and were solid devices. These things were just a couple of steps away from having tubes in them, but they kept on chugging along. You'd be surprised at how much of the national telecom infrastructure depended on HP1000s for control and monitoring back in the day.
According to my friends who worked at HP Carly was on a par with Satan.
My HP 11 is used almost daily and it sits right next the keyboard of a work station computer. I’ll be seriously bummed when it finally dies.
Agilent (what used to be HP's T & M division) still makes great test equipment, and they still service the good old stuff. My company still has HP8590L spectrum analyzers from the 90's, and they still work great and calibrate perfectly every year.
There are folks out there still using 30 year old calculators made by HP.
I'm one of them. Well, not 30, but 20 years. I've still got my HP48SX on my desk. Used all the time. Just clean it once in awhile, and change the batteries.
Who knows she might be the next Joe Biden?
>Fiorina and I went to same High School.
Was she “unmitigated disaster” back then too?
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