That HP is still very much alive in their spin-off of lab and testing equipment, Agilent Technologies Inc

What sort of stuff are they doing now? In the consumer's eye, they make mediocre printers and PCs.

In my university days I happily used a HP calculator and scope, in addition to HPUX. Are those businesses still going strong?

Who makes better printers? I've always been a fan of HP due to their work on HPLIP.

Perhaps I was unfair - that's just my perspective of the current state of affairs. I've used some HP printers and some non-HP printers in the last few years, and the HP ones did nothing to stand out of the pack.

I guess what I mean to say is that HP just seems like yet-another consumer electronics company. It isn't apparent to me if people have brand-loyalty to HP in the consumer segment.

The calculator group was shut down, an HP division in Australia tried to revive it a while back. I think the HP calculators that are still being sold are done by a Korean OEM.