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2020-12-03 Economy

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Posted by Bobby 2020-12-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Good. Army Futures Command around the corner as well

Posted by Clem 2020-12-03 06:40|| 2020-12-03 06:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Can't remember which one, but one or the other founder's trust fund lefty heirs can be expected to whine about this to an attentive media...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-12-03 06:48|| 2020-12-03 06:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Going to lose Texas like you did Arizona. There should be a quota limit on Cali business allowed to relocate to any red state.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-12-03 07:07|| 2020-12-03 07:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Will this move make their Laser Jets suck less than they do now?

Posted by Raj 2020-12-03 08:16|| 2020-12-03 08:16|| Front Page Top

#5 HPe isn't the entity that makes the printers.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-12-03 08:29|| 2020-12-03 08:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Any sane company with a sentient board of directors should have left California years ago...just a good business decision.

As for the hypocrites who leave California due to taxes and f' up a good, decent state, well, that's another matter.

Posted by Clem 2020-12-03 08:40|| 2020-12-03 08:40|| Front Page Top

#7 As I recall, HP began in a garage in San Mateo, CA. After its successful rise it tried to create a world-class polytechnical highschool in San Mateo that would feed the growing computer-electronics economy. However, the good citizens, even then elitist to the core, declared it would not happen. Their kids would have preparation to go to Stanford. The poly school was scrapped.

Posted by b 2020-12-03 08:53|| 2020-12-03 08:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Had a workhorse of a HP LaserJet 4. Good, old stuff.

Posted by Clem 2020-12-03 08:55|| 2020-12-03 08:55|| Front Page Top

#9 I worked for a CPA who had a LaserJet 4P; he got over one million pages from that thing. It was still running until he upgraded to Windows XP (yes, this was about 10+ years ago), when the printer no longer made the Windows HCL (hardware compatibility list). This LaserJet Pro 400 that I have now blows donkey cock - it'll do four labels and not fuse the toner on the third & fourth label correctly, so I gotta run it through twice or use tape to cover it.

HP & their suppliers can go suck it.

Posted by Raj 2020-12-03 09:18|| 2020-12-03 09:18|| Front Page Top

#10 We've been using the Sharp MX Series laser printers/copiers in our offices for years with few issues, and 100,000+ pages/year, Raj. (No, I don't get a royalty)

Last HP we had was 12-15 years ago.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-12-03 10:55|| 2020-12-03 10:55|| Front Page Top

#11 I had an HP 4something that handled tabloid sized paper. It was a beast. The Office Space dudes would have broken their baseball bat if they'd tried to bash it.

Posted by Wholutle Grutch1040 2020-12-03 11:20|| 2020-12-03 11:20|| Front Page Top

#12 Of course your old HP Laser Jets were work horses that performed for years with few problems. That was the old HP before Carly Fiorina. But these days HP has everything Made in China. They are hypocrites to move to Texas. They should move the whole damn company to China. The last printer I bought was a Brother, Made in Malaysia. The laptop that I bought recently is an ASUS. It was Made in China but at least it's not an HP.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-12-03 12:00|| 2020-12-03 12:00|| Front Page Top

#13 Wow. Lotta HP hatred going on here. In 1977, a co-worker demonstrated the ruggedness of an early HP expensive engineering calculator by throwing it all the way across the bullpen, some 50-60 feet. It worked fine. I still have a 1986 model HP11C engineering calculator, although it doesn't get a lot of use, since I retired. I can still work in RPN, however.

Posted by Bobby 2020-12-03 16:56|| 2020-12-03 16:56|| Front Page Top

#14 Bobby - fair point. I hate the dropoff in printer quality but I'll say this - I still have an HP 12C calculator; got it in college to help me with the finance courses. It kicks ass.

Posted by Raj 2020-12-03 17:28|| 2020-12-03 17:28|| Front Page Top

#15 The worry is they will bring the politics that destroyed CA with them. Like stowed away rats bringing the plague.

The old HP was a good company. I have a HP48SX that turned 30 this year and still has a better equation writer than most common computer software. And I have my pride and joy, my HP15c, which is still unmatched in my opinion. It handles statistics, complex math (imaginary numbers for you non-math folks), is programmable, and better yet, had built-in handling for matrix math, including determinants, inverse, and LU decomposition. Great field tool. And although its neary 40 years, its only on its 3rd set of batteries. They key-feel is snappy even after all this time and the key caps are in better shape than they have any right to be. I even bought a spare when they stopped making them, and its sitting in the closet (with the 48SX) in a faraday wrapper (if there is an EMP even, they will be life saving).

My only hope is that whoever inherits them will appreciate them as much as I did.

And my other hope is that most of the hard lefties will take severance and stay in California.

Posted by Theager Borgia1057 2020-12-03 17:35|| 2020-12-03 17:35|| Front Page Top

#16 Oh, and Texas Instrupments in Plano says Welcome, leave your politics, but bring your engineers and chip fab.

Posted by Theager Borgia1057 2020-12-03 17:38|| 2020-12-03 17:38|| Front Page Top

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