>>>https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/19/hps_ceo_spells_it_out
>>>How perverse is that thinking: that if a customer buys an HP product, but not HP consumables, then the *customer* is somehow a "bad investment"? WTAF?
>>>H and P didn't build their company on that kind of attitude. I, for one, remember when HP was justifiably admired.
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>>That was when, last time? Twenty years ago, at least, in my experience.
>My first programming was on an RPN-based HP 29C, so I'll always have a soft spot for what HP used to be - but that was around 1978. They had some good, even great product in later years but yeah, seems like the marketers and beancounters started taking over around the turn of the century.

Yup, the timeline fits what I remember. Around the time they bought Compaq and we saw nothing good come from it.