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-=> Ed Vance wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

 EV> The first calc. shown to me was a HP-30 ( 35?) given to an employee of
 EV> a electronics company.
 EV> He showed me what all it could do and My Jaw Dropped.

 I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, on the peninsula, near the
 garage where Hewlett-Packard was founded. The local Macy's department
 store, less than a mile from that garage, had a display with an
 assortment of Hewlett-Packard calculators. Very odd, I never saw any
 other Macy's selling them. Must have been an early customer.

 Did you notice when Carly Fiorina was CEO of Hewlett-Packard and they
 acquired Compaq, the Hewlett and Packard families were against the
 deal? After that, everything was branded HP. Petty revenge?

 
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