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Title: I bet you thought HP stood for a well known American brand?
Post by: ralphrmartin on December 03, 2018, 12:34:09 pm
Well, not necessarily....

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/HoldPeak-HP-890CN-LCD-Digital-Multimeter-DMM-with-NCV-Detector-DC-AC-Voltage-Current-Meter-Resistance/32610159661.html (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/HoldPeak-HP-890CN-LCD-Digital-Multimeter-DMM-with-NCV-Detector-DC-AC-Voltage-Current-Meter-Resistance/32610159661.html)
Title: Re: I bet you thought HP stood for a well known American brand?
Post by: bd139 on December 03, 2018, 12:36:58 pm
Yeah I get that crap turn up in my ebay feeds. Very annoying. Leveraging another brand name there for sure...
Title: Re: I bet you thought HP stood for a well known American brand?
Post by: RoGeorge on December 03, 2018, 12:38:35 pm
Not at all, the well known brand is called "HPAGILENTKEYSIGHT".  8)
Title: Re: I bet you thought HP stood for a well known American brand?
Post by: ralphrmartin on December 03, 2018, 12:48:32 pm
It sure is an interesting business tactic - build up a well known and trusted brand, then change your name. Maybe they had too many customers and this was a strategy to lose a few of the less bright ones who were confused by the changes?  :D
Title: Re: I bet you thought HP stood for a well known American brand?
Post by: stj on December 03, 2018, 01:49:31 pm
maybe they wanted to get rid of any memory of carly fiorina?  >:D
Title: Re: I bet you thought HP stood for a well known American brand?
Post by: Fungus on December 03, 2018, 02:05:02 pm
My first experience of HP was in a bottle:

(https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/i-bet-you-thought-hp-stood-for-a-well-known-american-brand/?action=dlattach;attach=586964;image)

(...as used by the queen of England, see the royal seal on the neck of the bottle)
Title: Re: I bet you thought HP stood for a well known American brand?
Post by: ralphrmartin on December 03, 2018, 05:27:49 pm
Well, I first came across them because of their biscuits...
Title: Re: I bet you thought HP stood for a well known American brand?
Post by: GregDunn on December 03, 2018, 05:36:04 pm
Quote from: stj on December 03, 2018, 01:49:31 pm
maybe they wanted to get rid of any memory of carly fiorina?  >:D

The person who almost single-handedly destroyed the public HP image of quality engineering and design?  I can't imagine why they'd want to distance themselves from her.

 :rant:
Title: Re: I bet you thought HP stood for a well known American brand?
Post by: coppice on December 03, 2018, 05:39:33 pm
HP == Hindustan Petroleum
Title: Re: I bet you thought HP stood for a well known American brand?
Post by: Stray Electron on December 03, 2018, 05:40:06 pm
Quote from: GregDunn on December 03, 2018, 05:36:04 pm
Quote from: stj on December 03, 2018, 01:49:31 pm
maybe they wanted to get rid of any memory of carly fiorina?  >:D

The person who almost single-handedly destroyed the public HP image of quality engineering and design?

 :rant:

   And then she wants to be president!
Title: Re: I bet you thought HP stood for a well known American brand?
Post by: bd139 on December 03, 2018, 06:41:09 pm
Thus demonstrating that if your don’t flush a turd quickly, everyone suffers.
Title: Re: I bet you thought HP stood for a well known American brand?
Post by: calin on December 04, 2018, 03:47:12 am

I was in Compaq @ the time miss F swallowed us ... Yes I "weathered the storm" and lived under the "dark clouds" (real quote-s from ms-s F mass emails to improve morale :) ) . I bet her morale was sky high ... @ the time the only job opened on the HP site was for "flight attendant (male)"  :-+ 


Or maybe you want to buy a FUKE ?!!!  :-DD
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/FUKE-FK9205X-digital-multimeter-digital-multimeter-electrician-special-table-with-a-buzzer/32431614419.html (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/FUKE-FK9205X-digital-multimeter-digital-multimeter-electrician-special-table-with-a-buzzer/32431614419.html)
Title: Re: I bet you thought HP stood for a well known American brand?
Post by: stj on December 04, 2018, 05:52:16 am
i like the colour - better than "Telecom yellow"  ;D
Title: Re: I bet you thought HP stood for a well known American brand?
Post by: bc888 on December 06, 2018, 12:09:34 am


Could be a co-incidence that the Holdpeak HP760H and the Keysight U1231A both fail in Joe's Transient test at the same point? Spreadsheet is linked in the first post: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/hear-kitty-kitty-kitty-nope-not-that-kind-of-cat/ (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/hear-kitty-kitty-kitty-nope-not-that-kind-of-cat/)
Title: Re: I bet you thought HP stood for a well known American brand?
Post by: Mr. Scram on December 06, 2018, 01:07:11 am
Quote from: RoGeorge on December 03, 2018, 12:38:35 pm
Not at all, the well known brand is called "HPAGILENTKEYSIGHT".  8)
Those lovely people who call it a "Keysight oscilloscope", even though it was only made during the HP era. That's rather annoying.