[Info-vax] Did HP get rid of VMS to make itself a more attractive takeover target for Xerox?

[JohnF]

Arne Vajh??j <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 11/8/2019 3:06 PM, David Turner wrote:
>> On 11/6/2019 8:03 AM, seasoned_geek wrote:
>>> https://www.thestreet.com/markets/
>>>       xerox-reportedly-mulls-takeover-of-hp-inc-15155605 
>>
>> HP was always a printer company that got a hankering for real computing.
>> This company is beyond a joke. I would be selling IBM if it wasn't for 
>> our lack of vendors
> 
> I thought HP did some OK stuff back in the old days (>25 years ago).
> Instruments, hand calculators, 3000 series and MPE,
> early Laserjet printers, early PC's etc..
> Some may even have liked PA and HP-UX.
> But around mid 1990's they started making all the wrong decisions.
> Arne

Back in the real old days, some ~50 yrs ago in the early 1970's,
I was a grad student working at the Lamont-Doherty Geological
Observatory of Columbia University, in the Atmospheric Sciences
division, observing and studying gravity waves in the ionosphere.
Just about all our equipment was HP, and it was pretty much all
100% terrific, e.g., way up in NY we routinely measured atmospheric
gravity waves from Apollo moon launches in FL. No computers, no
printers, just HP electronic lab equipment. And, speaking of "Apollo",
some 20 yrs later the HP/Apollo workstations didn't totally suck either.
But today there's pretty much nothing HP-labelled that I'd even
remotely consider purchasing.
-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j at f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )