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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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