Heh, back in the day they made the best calculators, test equipment, disk drives, workstations (early PA-risc snakes), etc. Even their printers were a unique t

Heh, back in the day they made the best calculators, test equipment, disk drives, workstations (early PA-risc snakes), etc. Even their printers were a unique technology using an HP print engine that was wonderfully durable. Then they killed off the calc division, not because it wasn't profitable, but because it wasn't as profitable as ink. Years later they decided to upgrade the calculator (TI had won the market in the meantime), instead of doing something innovative they bought a new arm chip and ran an emulator of the old chip and used the old software stack with minimum polish under the emulator. Not surprisingly Texas Instruments laughed all the way to the bank. Their laser printers were starved as well, again not as profitable as selling ink for ink jets. So the print engine was killed off and now uses the same print engine that you get in a Dell printer. Which was sad, they weren't nearly as durable. It was sad to watch