>>>>>>>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.
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>My big loss in Tech was Lumen bought at about $10. Things were going good 7-8% dividend then no dividend and hello $4.00 - now $1.50. Why sell - too late. I'll keep it just to remind myself to not get stuck on stupid. As for the DXC - they never recovered from COVID. But, with a market cap of about 4 billion they have a little less than 2 billion in cash and equivalents. They have a new CEO so we will see.

They're competing with Apple on one hand and Dell on the other.