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To: DB
For me, HP was the leader in quality test equipment and was HP’s very identity.

Absolutely! A company could only dream to enjoy the stellar reputation that HP had in that field when I started my engineering career in '81.

But the traded that in to hawk cheap printers and ink cartridges.

It may have been good for short term gains, but in the medium to long term it's a total folly.

19 posted on 03/09/2010 5:11:49 AM PST by The Duke
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To: The Duke
Absolutely! A company could only dream to enjoy the stellar reputation that HP had in that field when I started my engineering career in '81.

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.

25 posted on 03/09/2010 8:09:36 AM PST by zeugma (Proofread a page a day: http://www.pgdp.net/)
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