I think you hit it on the head there. I think they make far more on consumables than on the hardware. I remember those days of HP calculators (my college days when everyone drooled over them) ;) > > I guess HP has show fairly good flexibility over the years. Some of you > will remember when "Hewlett Packard" made you think immediately of > hand-held calculators. Before that, I think it was mainframes and > so-called mini-computers. Now, as Garrett suggested, it's printers, but > HP has a lot more going on than that. People might not think "printer ink > cartridges" but I would not be surprised if HP makes more total on the > ink-jet cartridges than on the ink-jet printers! > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list