Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!alberta!cpsc.ucalgary.ca!ajfcal!blender!herb From: herb@blender.uucp (Herb Peyerl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: HP: Why DID you buy Apollo anyway? Message-ID: <1990Dec10.015138.i@T> Date: 10 Dec 90 01:51:38 GMT References: <9012051357.AA02241@umix.cc.umich.edu> <9012091932.AA13025@relay.hp.com> Organization: Home for the Bewildered Lines: 29 graham@hparc0.hp.COM (Graham Eddy) writes: >And what has HP gained from it all? Diddly, as far as I can tell. I've The interesting thing is when you look at the HP Appointment calendar that our purchasing department got. (they got about 50 calendars). Each month features a picture of some piece of HP equipment with a small marketing type description of the picture. One of the months (March I think but the calendar is at work and I'm at home) has a little caption that starts off "The DN2500 blah blah blah" and says something about producing affordable high performance workstations. The funny part of this is that the caption is right next to a picture of a DN10000 with the hi-res display. It appears as though HP bought Apollo, destroyed it and to this day, still doesn't know what it's bought... >really none of my business. Every once in a while (like every month when >Workstation Magazine comes out), I find another reason to get steamed, and You get 'Workstation Magazine'??? I got one about 6 months ago and have never seen another one since. The first one was addressed to myself so I'm assuming HP knows of my existance. Especially since I get propaganda from an HP marketing department regularly about the new 400's. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- UUCP: herb@blender.UUCP || #define Janitor Administrator ICBM: 51 03 N / 114 05 W || Apollo System_Janitor, Novatel Communications "I spilled spot remover on my dog and now he's gone..."