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Jef Poskanzer
FeralRobots@jef @katieonviolin @njudah makes me feel old to point this out but there was a time when a used HP printer was a wonderful find. Ah but that was many years ago, & long before the war, to crib Stan Ridgeway.
Pax Ahimsa Gethen@FeralRobots @jef @katieonviolin @njudah
I have an HP LaserJet 2100 that I bought in the late 90s that still works. Outlasted my first marriage.
J.H.Noyes@funcrunch
Must be before they started coding obsolescence into their machines.
I bought a printer at a Goodwill about ten years ago when I traveled for work all the time. Use it a dozen times or so before actually connecting it to the Internet. When I finally did that was the end of it. Never worked again. Hard for me to believe that it just broke as it was fresh out the box and only stopped working after its first update.
@noyes
Oh man, HP used to make bulletproof, obsolescence-proof stuff. They were known for it, almost INFAMOUS for it. It earned them rock steady stock price increases year over year up until the dotcom/tech booms, when rock solid 15% growth wasn't good enough anymore. That's approximately when they went to the dark side.
@funcrunch @jef @katieonviolin @njudah @merileedkarr
Oh man, HP used to make bulletproof, obsolescence-proof stuff. They were known for it, almost INFAMOUS for it. It earned them rock steady stock price increases year over year up until the dotcom/tech booms, when rock solid 15% growth wasn't good enough anymore. That's approximately when they went to the dark side.
@funcrunch @jef @katieonviolin @njudah @merileedkarr
ashley@FeralRobots @jef @katieonviolin @njudah they were outstanding, and then the internet took off in the mid 90s and they decided to target the cheap masses as well, and then just a few years later it was all crap. brother laser printers ftw!
@rabcyr
IIRC that was all happening around the same time that HP shareholders decided that an unbroken, decades-long record of steadily increasing value wasn't enough - HP was a failure because it hadn't achieved overnight 1000% increases in valuation along with petfood.com.
@jef @katieonviolin @njudah
IIRC that was all happening around the same time that HP shareholders decided that an unbroken, decades-long record of steadily increasing value wasn't enough - HP was a failure because it hadn't achieved overnight 1000% increases in valuation along with petfood.com.
@jef @katieonviolin @njudah
Cegorach
Kate@FeralRobots their pro grade lasers are still decent. but I wouldn't touch any of their inkjets or consumer level lasers.
Bobsee@njudah @katieonviolin @FeralRobots @jef I have a Laserjet 5P from my wife’s office which opened in 1993 or so. It is our main printer at home. Change the cartridge about once every other year or so, Connected by a little print server that has a parallel interface on one side.
@Bobsee @njudah @katieonviolin @jef
I installed a bunch of those print servers here & there over the years. I think they haven't fundamentally changed since mid-90s, though I'm sure they use faster (& cheaper) ethernet chipsets now.
I installed a bunch of those print servers here & there over the years. I think they haven't fundamentally changed since mid-90s, though I'm sure they use faster (& cheaper) ethernet chipsets now.
Schrödinger's Prat@jef @katieonviolin @njudah Whenever I print from the staff room, I have to chant "This is our HP printer, there are many like it but this is by far the worst."
Hewlett-Packard 
Krupo@katieonviolin @njudah very apt commentary