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HP Calcs Live On Under PalmOS

Posted by timothy on from the symbolic-replacement dept.

philipsblows writes "Emulators for HP Calcs have been around for a while, but HP is actually getting behind this one, allowing ROM images to be included to support emulation of 48sx, 48gx and 49g (all separately and at the same time) on your PalmOS device. Unfortunately, it has to be a color device, but this is great news anyone who would otherwise miss out on using an HP calc. Check out Power48 here." And unlike a calculator, the software is free (and Free).

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  1. revised URLs from "I'm not dead yet!" + comments by Multics · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The amended URLs are:

    http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2003/03012 3b.html

    and

    http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2002/02103 1a.html

    ----

    HP is slowly rotting. We'll clearly see huge layoffs soon. Examples:

    In a major bid for PCs recently (1000+ systems) they were 150+% of the lowest bid. So much for what one sales executive said in the press, "we will loose no bids because of price."

    Shipping of I2 products started amazingly late.

    The ever-diminishing quality of Scanjets. "Oh you mean that you used it a couple of hours a day? They aren't designed for that!", said the help desk. Funny, the old ones were. I'd like those designs updated and then leave the hell alone. And yes, sell parts for the damn things so when the bulb dies we just replace the bulb, not the whole scanner.

    Even their own folks admit that the Laserjet 9000 mechanics are awful.

    It all adds up to HP management not sticking to their core business, but instead messing around with mergers and other things they don't understand.

    I have been hopeing that someone would purchase the corpse of HP calculators and return to the innovation that made them great. They'll have to restart the IR printers and the IO cards. They'll also have to reassemble the team that made the designs things one took months to grow into. Making HP calculators a success would be a delightful proof of concept that Carlie is a by the numbers, not by the ideas manager. HP was made by ideas, not numbers.

    Soon Dell+Lexmark will have gotten the costs down, the quality up and the delivered cost per page halved. Then HP will not be able to live off the cash cow that printing and imaging currently is. Then there will be trouble in the core of the business that no amount of MBA money manipulation will be able to fix. Ideas still count in high tech, a thought lost on the HP front office.

    Finally, I was very bumbed that Agilent didn't get to keep the HP name. The HP way is still alive over there. HP should have lost the right to have the name of two wonderful engineers in their name when they spun Agilent off. Talk about dumping the date that brought you to the dance!

    HP will survive; they have too many bright people and a good portfolio of Intellectual Property. The path to survival is going to get really really ugly and there is little now that can be done to prevent that.

    -- Multics