[HN Gopher] The HP Garage (2009) ___________________________________________________________________ The HP Garage (2009) Author : swatson741 Score : 40 points Date : 2020-11-03 18:26 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.hpmuseum.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.hpmuseum.org) | someonehere wrote: | I attended a friendly get together there with someone who was a | caretaker of the home briefly. It's weird drinking margaritas in | a historical landmark. Especially in its garage. | kps wrote: | HP, when it was controlled by the founders, was famous for three | things: (1) uncompromising product quality, (2) cutting edge | research, and (3) treating employees well -- they wouldn't even | fire people for incompetence, just reassign them, on the grounds | that a hiring mistake was the fault of the company. | | Today, they're just a label on minimum-cost consumer junk. | | Comparison to current SV companies is left as an exercise for the | reader. | zwieback wrote: | I won't try to convince you of the quality of our consumer | products but we also build industrial printing presses and 3D | printers that are actually kind of cool. | 908B64B197 wrote: | > they wouldn't even fire people for incompetence, just | reassign them, on the grounds that a hiring mistake was the | fault of the company. | | I wonder how often the problem isn't with a hire but with the | team. | JorgeGT wrote: | The HP-15c I was handed down from my dad certainly is a | testament of (1). The thing will just keep going. | FullyFunctional wrote: | The HP-11C (which I bought ~ 30 years ago to replace a HP-15C | that took one too many drops) is still going strong on the | ORIGINAL battery from the factory. | | I marvel frequently that while CPUs, storage, and displays | are unphantomly better, the physical design and feel of the | keys on the 30+ year old calculator is still _unsurpassed_. | qz2 wrote: | It's a shame really. Their new calculators are crap made by | the lowest bidder (Kinpo Electronics) who make TI and Casio | stuff too. | qz2 wrote: | HP ejected the three major "old HP" concerns you mentioned in | 1999 into a company called Agilent and proceeded to make a | complete universal fuck up of everything that was left. | kps wrote: | And then Agilent spun off most of the original HP domain to | Keysight. | Aloha wrote: | I consider the real owner of the HP heritage to be | Keysight. | qz2 wrote: | They still sell a big chunk of original HP parts as well. | I got a couple of bits for a 25 year old power supply a | few months back. | rodgerd wrote: | And the person responsible for that fuck-up ran for | government on the basis of her business expertise. | qz2 wrote: | Well fortunately she fucked that up before she got | anywhere! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-11-03 23:00 UTC)