Me too, 
in~vent(clearing toxic gas)?, 
perhaps invent~ory pile up?
1/4 Century ago, I work for HP, It was true,
Now more to invent "$" ?
Just my opinion.

>>> John Korb <[log in to unmask]> 11/16 10:32 AM >>>
I'm confused.  Is that "invent" (notice the lower case) part of "inventing
technology" (would that be "i.t.", as one small step towards "I.T."
[information technology], or "invent", as in the command name that is
probably the most frequently used command of "Adventure", better known as
"Advent")?  Hmmm.  invent? advent? invent? advent?  Where are we going with
this?

And why isn't the LaserJet one of the major innovations for the 1980's?
The ThinkJet, yes (I have two of those at home and they still work great),
but why not the LaserJet?  Wasn't it the HP2686 (original LaserJet) that
killed off the daisy-wheel printers?  Wasn't it the LaserJet that made HP
the major player in the printer market?

Maybe I'm just too used to seeing the old HP logo, but the new HP logo just
doesn't do anything for me, other than make me wonder how much was wasted
on its development.

John

At 11/16/99 12:45 PM , Wirt Atmar wrote:
>Yesterday at COMDEX, Carly unveiled a new HP logo. It's much like the old
>one, but with the names "Hewlett Packard" dropped from the logo and the new
>word "invent" placed underneath the body of the logo so as to emphasize HP's
>long history of innovation.
>
>I'm not sure that adding the word "invent" is going to mean all that much to
>old customers, but it might truly have an effect on new ones. It offers a
>chance to showcase HP's traditional strengths. (However, I must admit when I
>look at the new logo, I tend to see the word "inventory" instead, reminding
>me how hard it has become lately to try to order anything from HP nowadays;
>all the 800 numbers we have traditionally used are now disconnnected and the
>HP El Paso office has vanished without a trace.)
>
>One of the websites for today's feature story is:
>
>     http://www.hp.com/ghp/features/invent/timeline/timeline.html 
>
>You activate a time line slide show by clicking on the dates on the wrench.
>This history is much like the one HP put up a couple of years ago, but
>significantly, the HP3000 is now prominently mentioned as one of the two
>significant inventions of the 1970's (the HP-35 being the other). I couldn't
>agree more.
>
>However, HP marketing itself indirectly makes the case for perhaps changing
>the name of the HP3000, if nothing else to change people's deep-seated
>engrams. HP writes that the HP3000 was a "powerful and versatile computer for
>its day." It's the "for its day" part of the sentence that needs to be erased
>from a lot of people's minds.
>
>On a second subject, Carly has been a force for public recognition of HP (and
>of herself). There were long pieces about her and her new stewardship of HP
>on ABC and NBC morning shows today. The NBC piece was particularly good.
>
>Wirt Atmar


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