Re: HP2000 AMD laptop

From	philo <philo@privacy.net>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Re: HP2000 AMD laptop
Date	2013-11-03 15:36 -0600
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On 11/03/2013 10:30 AM, Michael Black wrote:
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>> HP is certainly not the company it used to be...
>> but since the machine came with Win8 that might be the reason for the
>> bad rating.
>>
Yep, back in the vacuum days (and beyond) they were top of the line.
I still have one of these in my workshop:
http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/hewlett_pa_rack_mount_oscilloscope_1.html
(not in use)

One of my friends from HS ...the school genius worked for HP writing 
printer drivers. They released him just before he turned 60 and though 
with his talents had no trouble getting employment elsewhere...it sure 
left him quite bitter.

He told me that HP used to make equipment that no one else could 
build...and now they make equipment no one else would bother to build.

> HP can never be the company it used to be. It was a test equipment and
> then high end calculator business, then later got into computers,
> eventually the company split.  The computer business keeps the HP name,
> but the test equipment and the like that were the cornerstone of the
> business are no longer part of the business.  HP basically spun off the
> consumer computer division, and gave the name away with it.
>
>    Michael

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HP2000 AMD laptop notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-11-02 20:28 +0000
  Re: HP2000 AMD laptop philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2013-11-03 05:13 -0600
    Re: HP2000 AMD laptop Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2013-11-03 11:30 -0500
      Re: HP2000 AMD laptop notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-11-03 16:57 +0000
        Re: HP2000 AMD laptop Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2013-11-03 19:40 +0000
          Re: HP2000 AMD laptop notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-11-03 20:37 +0000
            Re: HP2000 AMD laptop Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com> - 2013-11-03 12:43 -0800
              Re: HP2000 AMD laptop notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2013-11-03 22:13 +0000
                Re: HP2000 AMD laptop Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com> - 2013-11-03 16:47 -0800
                Re: HP2000 AMD laptop Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net> - 2013-11-04 20:18 +0000
            Re: HP2000 AMD laptop philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2013-11-03 15:38 -0600
          Re: HP2000 AMD laptop Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com> - 2013-11-03 12:41 -0800
      Re: HP2000 AMD laptop philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2013-11-03 15:36 -0600

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