I hate that everything now is a subscription service instead of buying it and do whatever you want.

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    The HP you mention still exists today as Hewlett-Packard Enterprises, a separate company from HP Inc, which is the consumer-facing brand. It’s very similar to what Motorola did in splitting into enterprise and consumer companies.

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      Fun fact! Motorola started out as a company making record players specifically for cars. The big name in record players at the time was Victrola, and since they were making them for motorcars they called themselves MotoRola.

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        I didn’t know that! Having vinyl in the car tho… hmmm… seemed to work out just fine for them though.

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          Even more fun! In-car record players were made upside-down so that the weight of the record held it against the needle. These are all of my record player facts.

    • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.ml
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      I’m fairly sure that HP Enterprises includes their IT outsourcing arm and anybody who’s had experience with them will confirm how shit they are too.