9 May
2012
9 May
'12
11:36 a.m.
On 08/05/12 10:21 PM, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
I thought they did. I have seen HP calcualtors with 'made in Brazil' on
them,. and a 'B' in the serial number.
Old HP serial numbers have a letter in them that gives the coutry of
manufacture. A = America (USA), B = Brazil, F = France, G = (West)
Germany, 'Q' or 'U' =s England/United Kingdom, S = Singapore, etc.
Mind you, this doesn't imply that HP had a factory in the speiifeid
country. Ecan in the classic era, some products were built by other
companies. I have seen 'J' (Japan) in the serial number of an 'HP' dot
matrix printer which was clearly an Epson with different firmwre and an
HPIL interface board added. And 'K' (Korea) on a monitor which was
clearly a Samsung chassis built to an HP sprcification (It had connectors
for an HP-HIL touchscreen option, etc). It was not built like a 'real'
HP, and was downright painful to repair...
But I think they did have a factory in Brazil
-tony
At least here in Brazil, too expensive to be considered.
HP should have had the, uh, foresight to build a factory there, like Dell.