7 Feb
2013
7 Feb
'13
1:46 p.m.
HP maintained a technocracy for quite a while.
But now? A CEO who, despite spending more than any other political
campaign in the history of mankind, was unable to buy the California
Guvnorship. (among opther things, she promised to eliminate teacher
retirement benefits) Was exterminating the nerds and geeks, and
abolishing innovation her stated agenda at HP?
A couple of years ago I gave a talk on the HP9866A thermal printer. Much
of the talk was serious, for example I described all 32 states of the
control state machine. But at the start I compared the printer to its
most obvious competitor, the ASR33 and pointed out how quiet the HP
thermal printer was.
I then mentioed that there was a continuous backgorund whirring noise.
You might think that's just the cooling fan. In fact it's 'Bill and
Dave' rotating in thair graves in repsonse to recent changes at the
once-great company :-)
-tony