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Real HP LaserJet Presentation from 1985.
Same faded videos and odd haircuts of the fake one. I'm not sure why them haven't used an HP '80s laser printer. Maybe because the comparision between a dot matrix printer and al laser wasn't so funny? Or because if you connect a PCL-speaking printer to a machine that acts as a printer server you could print from a cellphone anyway?

At one point, HP had a division called Dymec, which manufactured custom test gear, early digital data acquisition systems, and similar niche market stuff. Their logo was simply the HP logo of the day, turned upside down so it became "DY"...

http://hpmemoryproject.org/new...

http://www.hpmuseum.net/divisi...

https://www.hpplotter.co.uk/wo...

Serial?
Old?
Bah!

If my instruments have Serial it's high tech. Most of them use IEEE-488, and I'm controlling them with a HP-226.
That's this badboy right here: http://www.hpmuseum.net/upload...

In Arlington County, Virginia of the mid-1970's, 7th and 8th grade math students were treated to a week-long exploration of BASIC programming, complete with access to a
HP 9830A, and an HP 7260A Optical Mark Reader. We used HP Educational BASIC Cards.
So, the drill was: write your program on paper, transcribe it to the cards with #2 pencil, then get in line to put your cards in the reader. Inevitably the Reader would choke on a card, and issue a "Pick Fail" error. That could be due to a damaged card or to the number of erasures and rewrites on a card. Pick Fails were always accompanied by three honks from an alarm inside the Reader. Moans from students waiting in line for card reading usually followed. The best you could hope for was one iteration of your program per day, but realistically you got 2 or 3 runs during programming week, what with all the Pick Fails.

Actually there is an HP mini laptop series. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Mini By the way the first HP mini was developed in 1966, the 2116 http://hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=95

It started with Carly who gutted their R&D.

Naw. It ended when they split off what became Agilent. That's when HP became a shit company. And the way the Corvallis Division was basically allowed to just wither and die was a big disappointment, too.

Do some Googling for the HP 7906A hard drive, cabinet version - although it was 20MB rather than 10, I was misremembering that.

Here's a relevant link from the HP Computer Museum. On that page there's a link to an ad for the HP1000 computer plus the disk drive - the disk is on the left.

Engineering equipment like scopes and test tools and calculators. Then they added printers. Then they added PCs...Don't remember when they added workstations and minicomputers to the mix, but they aren't doing PA-RISC systems anymore.

HP started making computers in 1966.

Apparently "The problem with HP..." is that the vast majority of people who want to tell us all what "The problem with HP..." is don't know anything about HP.

I thought what AC liked about /. was that he could troll anonymously...who knew. And as far as backing up my "opinion" take a gander at this ad for their original hp Vectra series giving away a free LaserJet printer with every purchase. It was a shame hp got into the PC business. Until then they were a really good networking and test & measurement company.

I thought what AC liked about /. was that he could troll anonymously...who knew. And as far as backing up my "opinion" take a gander at this ad for their original hp Vectra series giving away a free LaserJet printer with every purchase. It was a shame hp got into the PC business. Until then they were a really good networking and test & measurement company.

You mean like touch screens? http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=43 When I first started working at Kodak people had these touch screen terminals/PCs. They complained that the screens got full of fingerprints and looked ugly after a while. Not well liked, but at least they had a real keyboard.

Ok, maybe it isn't really the same thing. However, take a look at this:

HP Computer From 1993
The hardware is somewhere between a laptop and a TI calculator. However, it ran DOS natively, included a PCMCIA expander slot. And in one way it is far superior to current netbooks: it could run for 90+ hours on battery. It just had a slot that you put in off the shelf AA's into it. (I wonder why none of the laptops today do that? Sure, perhaps lower performance than packaged up, but so much cheaper and easy to replace when the life decays.)

I've got an odd hunch the HP Omnibook 300 had a custom Windows build:
http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=123