I was never with HP but I bought (using Hughes Aircraft and US government money)
megabucks worth of HP Instruments. The whole facility bought millions more.
The local Tucson HP sales office had a salesman assigned just to Hughes. They
showered us with catalogs, app notes, training programs, seminars and I even
traveled a few times to attend programs elsewhere. We paid for our own airfare
and hotel, but breakfasts, lunches, dinners, girly shows, etc were on HP. In
discussing travel expense reporting with the rep, unlike Hughes where every
penny had to be accounted for, he said his reporting consisted of counting the
money in his wallet when he left and counting it again when he got back. The
difference was his expense.
Wes N7WS
On 2/14/2016 4:05 PM, Jeremy Nichols wrote:
I was with HP 1972-79, when it was still a great company. The vertical
integration was such that there was a joke about HP plant site landscaping,
which always seemed to feature ferns. The reply was , "We're making our own
coal!" We not only had packaging engineers but made our own cabinets. We made
our own integrated circuits; I made the photomasks for those ICs in the Santa
Clara Division (02, the old Frequency&Time Division) in building 51-Lower,
next to the line where the counters were wired. Good times, free coffee.
Jeremy
N6WFO
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