HP Printer Problem
Jul 18, 2021 19:39:27 #
I am a retired engineer from the electro optics business. When I got into engineering in the early 60s, HP was premier company that made electronic test equipment. Then a lady, Carly Fiorina, took over the company and split it into two parts. One was called Agilent which I believe still makes test equipment, but the HP name went to the computer business. I too have owned many HP products, but most ended up in the trash can because of lack of support. I threw away four totally good flatbed scanners simply because one could not get updated software to run them. I also have had to dump functioning printers for the same reason. HP has not got a nickel out of me in the last 25 years for just having a business model that doesn't support their own equipment for us users. Live and learn.
Jul 18, 2021 19:43:42 #
Boney wrote:
For us old engineers, there was a time that, "Tektronix made Oscilloscopes and HP made everything else"!I am a retired engineer from the electro optics bu... (show quote)
Jul 18, 2021 20:00:59 #
BBurns wrote:
For us old engineers, there was a time that, "Tektronix made Oscilloscopes and HP made everything else"!
👍👍 I spent a dozen years at Tek - it was a great company, both for its customers and its employees. We made great scopes, but many other cool things including microprocessor development systems, logic analyzers, semiconductor test systems and the fastest digitizer ever built as well as specialty companies like Grass Valley (TV studio switchers) and an artificial intelligence development system and language (SmallTalk) 40 years before its time. Tek got out of the computer/graphics business when image storage migrated from on-screen to RAM based. A corporate raider got on the board, and it was all downhill from there. HP was a great company as well and our avowed competitor (made us both better). Both originated in their founder’s garage (HP in Palm Alto and Tek in Portland) and are just a shell of their former test equipment dominance. Some of the others such as John Fluke, Wavetek and Rhode & Schwartz are still around.
Jul 18, 2021 20:05:47 #
TriX wrote:
I remember touring HP and was surprised to see Tek scopes in the engineering lab. 👍👍 I spent a dozen years at Tek - it was a great... (show quote)
I worked at Sony in the late 60s. I remember some kind of a Sony/Tek alliance because of the quality of Tek's time base generators.
Jul 18, 2021 20:08:23 #
BBurns wrote:
I remember touring HP and was surprised to see Tek scopes in the engineering lab.
I worked at Sony in the late 60s. I remember some kind of a Sony/Tek alliance because of the quality of Tek's time base generators.
I worked at Sony in the late 60s. I remember some kind of a Sony/Tek alliance because of the quality of Tek's time base generators.
Yep, Sony-Tek jointly manufactured a line of small (300 series) portable scopes.
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