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HP’s oscilloscopes and other electronic lab equipment (at the time their exclusive focus) were beautifully designed and highest quality. Perfectionists would na
by drfuchs 7y ago
HP’s oscilloscopes and other electronic lab equipment (at the time their exclusive focus) were beautifully designed and highest quality. Perfectionists would naturally be drawn to them. Ditto for their first calculators; they were drooled over. Printers came later; all the electronics got jettisoned into Agilent in 1999.
- azalemeth 7y ago...and Agilent spun them out into Keysight, to focus on slightly random bits of lab equipment instead. What was a long and illustrious history is now...not. I much prefer my Rode & Schwarz machines. Incidentally, Agilent did the same thing with Varian -- an NMR company that was involved in the acquisition of data ultimately in several nobel prizes. They didn't make enough money in a two year period, and Excel and MBAs killed a multi-decade business [1], leading to unemployment and a monopoly in the field of preclinical MRI, EPR/ESR, and a duopoly in NMR spectroscopy. Ain't progress grant? [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090780714003395 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109078071...
- pinewurst 7y agohttps://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmr.2014.12.001 https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmr.2014.12.001