>>>>>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,
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>>>>seems like the marketers and beancounters started taking over around the turn of the century.
>>Yes. They were led by Carly Fiorina who led the Compaq acquisition.
>I think I came out ahead with the HP demise. In 2015 I got a special dividend for CSC stock of $10.50/share when CSC merged with HP to form DXC. I had accumulated the stock at about $30. I sold most of the stock in late 2017 at about $75 and made a bundle. I still have some of the stock - about $25/share - should have sold it all.
>Could Ah , Would Ah , Should Ah
I owned HP before Carly came along. I sold it at a small loss.