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-=> Ed Vance wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-
EV> The first calc. shown to me was a HP-30 ( 35?) given to an employee of
EV> a electronics company.
EV> He showed me what all it could do and My Jaw Dropped.
I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, on the peninsula, near the
garage where Hewlett-Packard was founded. The local Macy`s department
store, less than a mile from that garage, had a display with an
assortment of Hewlett-Packard calculators. Very odd, I never saw any
other Macy`s selling them. Must have been an early customer.
Did you notice when Carly Fiorina was CEO of Hewlett-Packard and they
acquired Compaq, the Hewlett and Packard families were against the
deal? After that, everything was branded HP. Petty revenge?
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