On Saturday 16 August 2025 07:41:41 am Richard Owlett wrote: > The local Staples has a sale on of overstocked laptops. There is a > selection of Lenovo [used the brand before] and HP [used their > instrumentation in the 70's] machines.
That HP back then has nothing to do with the computers bearing that branding now. There's a machine sitting in the other room here with that brand, I forget what's in the box, unused. I may configure it as a "test bench" machine one of these days, maybe. Oh, and I won't do business with Staples. Long story and I won't get into it here. -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
