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Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 25 Sep 2000 19:48:40 EDT
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Gavin writes:

> I happened to see a big display of cheap ($50 after rebate) HP printers at a
>  store the other day.
>
>  The thing that made this interesting was that this pile of HP printers was
>  in the produce department of my local supermarket.
>
>  Actually these particular printers carried the "Apollo" brand which HP has
>  recycled from their takeover of the Apollo computer workstation company as
a
>  brand name for their line of printers which are so cheap that they don't
>  want their own name on them.  I'm sure this goes over big with ex-Apollo
>  employees :-)

In that regard (associated with pleasing ex-Apollo employees), see:

     http://www.myapollo.com/products/barbie.htm

BTW, Apollo is a wholly-owned independent subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard, very
much in line with the model that I have occasionally suggested for CSY.

Wirt Atmar

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