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   >  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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   I never read about the CEO and the Hewletts and Packards disagreement .   
      
   The first HP product I saw was ib the Radio Room on the USS Midway.   
   A HP Oscilloscope, it had lots of "Bells&Whistles" built into it.   
   Ed   
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