>>Scott McNealy memorably described the HP-Compaq merger as "two garbage trucks colliding".
LOL. FWIW I still have some Compaq desktops from the early 2000s. They were solidly made and highly prestigious with really nice 14" and 15" LCDs as well. Every so often I bring one of the machines out and marvel how heavy it is, and how expensively all the insides rotate and slide apart so you can add an extra floppy drive or whatever is needed.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
