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The HP Garage (2009)
- kps 6y agoHP, 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.
- JorgeGT 6y agoThe HP-15c I was handed down from my dad certainly is a testament of (1). The thing will just keep going.
- FullyFunctional 6y agoThe 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.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoI second the feel of the keys. They were great.
- qz2 6y agoIt's a shame really. Their new calculators are crap made by the lowest bidder (Kinpo Electronics) who make TI and Casio stuff too.
- zwieback 6y agoI 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.
- abawany 6y agoI have a Pavilion 17" laptop from 2014 that is on 24/7 and still works[1] as of this day :) . I am also a big fan of the prosumer/business products (e.g. Elite) - love the easy user maintainability and support. Thank you. [1] Battery dead/removed, hard drive replaced with ssd for performance, cooling fan replaced once but the always-on duty cycle accelerated wear I expect.
- protomyth 6y agoThe bigger HP printers seem to work well for our people who are a bit picky on the subject. We stopped buying any servers from them when they started requiring a service contract for firmware.
- qz2 6y agoHP 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 6y agoAnd then Agilent spun off most of the original HP domain to Keysight.
- rodgerd 6y agoAnd the person responsible for that fuck-up ran for government on the basis of her business expertise.
- qz2 6y agoWell fortunately she fucked that up before she got anywhere!
- rvense 6y agoI was really hoping for a Trump/Fiorina shared ticket. Something about voting for business.
- CamperBob2 6y agoNot funny
- 908B64B197 6y ago> 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.
- timpattinson 6y agoThe best printer in my household is still my dad's hp Laserjet 5MP. It's outlived every one of the multifunction inkjet plastic pieces of crap.
- someonehere 6y agoI 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.
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