On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 04:28 AM, G8JCF wrote:
Hi Dave
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Total respect. HP was the finest company to work for, in my degree course the business part of the course was HP and it's management philosophy which I still absolutely believe in, unfortunately HP today is not the HP I once revered.I
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A different world these days
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That was just a really tiny part of their business but my HP48 calculator my dad gifted me in 1993 as I was studying engineering is still on my desk ! The keyboard can have small faults, nevertheless I fear the day it will die as I am twice as fast using the HP48 rather than a more "modern" calculator and I am the kind of guy who needs to do "back of the enveloppe" calcs. These were competently and truly engineered to last before planning obsolescence was a real thing...
