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by kristopolous 1392 days ago
HP used to be such a mark of quality. It's a shame how much modern market logic convinced them becoming a rotted husk of a company without any value add was a wonderful corporate strategy.

Their early 90s laserjets are still going. My friend's school was throwing one out a few weeks ago. It was sitting dusty in a closet. I plugged it in and it worked right away. Probably 30 years old.

They stopped making things like that a long time ago. They've got the resources and the public capital to turn the ship around if they wanted to