Stan wrote:

>> HP's new says they invented e-mail, the atomic clock and inkjet printing.
>
>Must have been when Al Gore was working for them :)
>
>
>I seem to recall using some form of email on the ARPAnet in the mid/late 70s.

GE Timesharing was using email for intra-company messages at least as
long ago as 1969, and probably before. (They didn't let non-employees use
it for fear of upsetting the Post Office, with its monopoly on
first-class mail.)

They did not invent the atomic clock. They did create the first portable
atomic clock.

They did not invent inkjet printing; I was using inkjet printers well
before HP came out with the ThinkJet. HP and Canon together did invent
*thermal* inkjet printing, but there are lots of other ways of getting
ink from a printhead to a page.

-- Bruce


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