> On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Joe wrote:
> > Subject: Silicon Valley pioneer William Hewlett dead at 87
>
> Apparently seeing his company deteriorate led to his death. Hewlett
> Packard once produced equipment of very high quality, but, alas, it's
> product quality has greatly deteriorated and HP appears to consist
> mostly of marketing smoke and mirrors, only remaining in business
> because of the once excellent products that are associated with the
> company name.
Well, their home computers are crap, but I love their server line. We just
got a new dual-processor PA-RISC 2.0 L-class and it flies.
Besides, all of the stuff Bill Hewlett was famous for, like electronic testing
equipment and so on, got spun into Agilent, didn't it?
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Received on Sat Jan 13 2001 - 18:42:48 GMT