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HP was never just a printer corp. ;-)
by flo123456 1mo ago
HP was never just a printer corp. ;-)
- CamperBob2 1mo agoHP is long gone. What's left is just a printer and PC company that didn't bother to change the sign on the building. It's as if I bought an old telephone exchange building and called it Bell Labs.
- JAlexoid 1mo agoYou couldn't, mostly because Bell Labs is owned by Nokia now.
- CamperBob2 1mo agoInteresting, TIL! I wonder what Nokia's market cap is... geez, still over $50B. Another surprise.
- formerly_proven 1mo agoThat's basically all Nokia(-Siemens) Networks.
- ahoka 1mo agoIt's Nokia again now, bought out Siemens' share more than a decade ago.
- dreamcompiler 1mo agoAT&T used to exist. Because it was a monopoly, it was broken up into the baby bells in 1982. One of which was Southwestern Bell, which eventually bought up all the other baby bells and what was left of AT&T. And then in 2005 it renamed itself...AT&T.
- InvisibleUp 1mo agoThe fun parts of HP split off years ago into Agilent, Keysight, and HPE. Current HP is just a printer and office PC corp.
- nxobject 1mo agoAs a fun addition, I think the atomic clock/time standards division went HP → Agilent → Symmetricom → Microsemi → Microchip. You could have bought a HP 5071A Cesium Frequency Standard under all of these badges! https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/clock-and-timing/components/atomic-clocks/atomic-system-clocks https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/clock-and-timing/co...
- formerly_proven 1mo agoThose HP System II enclosures introduced in the late 60s sure have a very long lifespan.
- etc-hosts 1mo agodont forget Autonomy !
- fmajid 1mo agoThe most valuable offspring of HP is Broadcom, just as ASML is the most valuable offspring of Philips.