Subj : Re: PI to 104 Decimal Places
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Ed Vance
Date : Sat Aug 30 2025 16:31:49



>  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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