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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (10630)	7/17/2003 3:19:41 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) of 95473

OT,,, I was a young engineer at HP in '83 having graduated from UC in '79. You might have met me if you came to the HP recruiting faire we put on at the Faculty Club twice a year in the 1980's. FREE FOOD and WINE! I as on the team for about 9 years, mostly interviewing summer intern positions and doing the product faire. Anyway, my boss's boss, whom I have exchanged email with just today, wanted to give me a $3,000 HP Touchscreen PC that ran DOS as a reward to take home. I remember I had to wait for the new fangled hard drive to be released so I'd have 10Meg rather than 5Meg of storage! (or was it 15Meg?) Heck, that would hold a whole bunch of floppy data and be a ton faster than the past where most of the stuff ran off floppies... I even had one of the first where they did not have the old 8" Floppy but just had the then new "A" drive we are now seeing vanish for USB drives. That PC was really cool. Mine came with a thermal printer in the monitor which was just amazing... but those without it used the space to hold a box of tissues! We sure did have some boom and bust times back then. fade to a "those were the days" song....

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