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On 31/03/2017 09:05, Piotr Wyderski wrote:
> bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:
>
>> He talks about "excellent" companies - Hewlett Packard,
>> and IBM at that time - who could charge half-as-much-again
>> more than the competition for essentially the same product
>> because they had built up a reputation for quality and reliability.
>
> I have recently thrown away an HP notebook (Pavilion x2, if
> that matters), exactly because of its "quality" and "reliability".

That is modern HP still trading on a once great brandname as a former 
innovative scientific instrument maker but mainly flogging cheap 
consumer PCs and printers. My ancient true HP 5300C scanner is still 
going strong and will still give modern ones a run for their money - the 
miserable curs stopped supporting when Vista came out.

> I hated it so much that I was actually happy when it developed
> a failure. It was still protected by the warranty, but the worst
> thing they could do for me was to fix it.
>
> I'll never, ever, buy anything from HP.

+1

But in the past they made some very nifty kit indeed.

-- 
Regards,
Martin Brown

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  Re: pricing Tim Wescott <tim@seemywebsite.com> - 2017-03-28 12:05 -0500
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  Re: pricing Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2017-03-28 18:19 +0100
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    Re: pricing John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-28 13:06 -0700
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        Re: pricing John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-28 15:44 -0700
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            Re: pricing Piotr Wyderski <peter.pan@neverland.mil> - 2017-03-30 17:53 +0200
              Re: pricing Lasse Langwadt Christensen <langwadt@fonz.dk> - 2017-03-30 09:12 -0700
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                Re: pricing Piotr Wyderski <peter.pan@neverland.mil> - 2017-03-31 08:32 +0200
                Re: pricing John Devereux <john@devereux.me.uk> - 2017-03-31 08:36 +0100
                Re: pricing Piotr Wyderski <peter.pan@neverland.mil> - 2017-03-31 09:57 +0200
                Re: pricing John Devereux <john@devereux.me.uk> - 2017-03-31 09:42 +0100
                Re: pricing rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-31 05:30 -0400
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  Re: pricing Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2017-03-28 12:39 -0700
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  Re: pricing Piotr Wyderski <peter.pan@neverland.mil> - 2017-03-30 17:47 +0200
    Re: pricing Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nezumi.demon.co.uk> - 2017-03-30 17:03 +0100
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        Re: pricing Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nezumi.demon.co.uk> - 2017-03-31 09:20 +0100
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        Re: pricing rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-30 23:45 -0400
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            Re: pricing Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2017-03-31 15:55 +1100
            Re: pricing rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-31 01:30 -0400
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            Re: pricing Piotr Wyderski <peter.pan@neverland.mil> - 2017-03-31 10:11 +0200
            Re: pricing Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2017-03-31 10:20 +0100
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        Re: pricing Piotr Wyderski <peter.pan@neverland.mil> - 2017-03-31 10:05 +0200
          Re: pricing Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2017-03-31 10:21 +0100
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