Carol Darnell wrote:
>ok, dreaming... but darn, I'd like to see the HP name continue to mean
something! Maybe us old-timers shouldn't remember how good it WAS...
Please forgive my personal reminisces.

A few years back I had cause to be in the hospital. The blood pressure cuff
that was part of my hospital garb had a big HP logo on it. When my friends
from work saw that they laughed and commented on the appropriateness of it.
I, however, had different thoughts.

All around me were devices and equipment from HP. It caused me to remember
all of the HP equipment I used to see as a child in my father's lab at Cal.
HP equipment was right there in the room with major scientific and
engineering breakthroughs, all around the world.

It also gave me a sense of well being knowing that my medical condition was
being monitored by the folks that brought us MPE. I knew this stuff was
going to work. I knew it wouldn't panic or crash at a critical juncture. (I
will admit that this is before I ever used HP-UX. I would still like to
believe that most of HP-UX problems are caused more by the UX part than by
the HP part.) Will a "commodity" company make me feel like that? I wonder.

I too would like to see the name HP continue to mean something and I can't
help but remember how good it was.


The opinions expressed herein are my own and not necessarily those of my
employer.
Yosef Rosenblatt

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