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It's a mug's auction Message #1 Posted by Julian Bucknall on 30 Apr 2004, 10:51 a.m. Check out this eBay auction for a coffee mug celebrating that its owner loves his/her HP 49G+. It's a shame that "Hewlett" is wrongly spelt. I wonder how many he has? Will it be subject to a recall? Will it be collectible because of the error? Inquiring minds want to know. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=50577&item=3094393241&rd=1 Cheers, Julian

Re: It's a mug's auction Message #2 Posted by Chan Tran on 30 Apr 2004, 11:16 a.m., in response to message #1 by Julian Bucknall Is it possible that he made the mugs himself. I which case the mug has little value. I doubted that HP would make misspelled mug.

Re: It's a mug's auction Message #3 Posted by Richard Garner on 30 Apr 2004, 11:30 a.m., in response to message #2 by Chan Tran Actually this is exactly what I would expect from the New Hewllett Packard run by Carly.

Re: It's a mug's auction Message #4 Posted by Arnaud Amiel on 30 Apr 2004, 11:49 a.m., in response to message #2 by Chan Tran If it was made by hp it would have the hp logo and not Hewl(l)ett Packard written on it. Arnaud

Re: It's a mug's auction Message #5 Posted by Raymond Del Tondo on 30 Apr 2004, 12:11 p.m., in response to message #2 by Chan Tran Unfortunately, today it's even possible that someone made it for HP, but I think it's homebrewn. The 'new hp' uses lowercease initials, a different font for the company name, and the logo. And, of course, they should know how to spell the name of the company. However, even in the 49g+ manual, or was it the 33s prelim manual, were errors: The writer did actually write the company name with wrong letters !!! Raymond

Re: It's a mug's auction Message #6 Posted by james summers (uk) on 30 Apr 2004, 12:21 p.m., in response to message #2 by Chan Tran I wonder if the use of capitals for HP and the spelling is a misguided (and probably unsuccessful) attempt to foil hp's legal eagles from trying to do him for copyright or it could be just plain carelessness...

LOL Message #7 Posted by Hans Brueggemann on 30 Apr 2004, 1:01 p.m., in response to message #2 by Chan Tran "I doubted that HP would make misspelled mug." ----> well, did you ever take a closer look on the frontplates of agilent digital scopes? on some of them you find the brand name "infiniium", while on boot-up, the display is showing "infinium". what a wonderful world. single letters can get "en vogue". maybe next intel processor is then named "pentiiiium", although i'd rather prefer "pentivm" for the 4GHz version, just in order to avoid punishment from my former latin/greek teacher... cheers, hans (designers, get out of your deliriium!)

Re: LOL Message #8 Posted by kamyar on 30 Apr 2004, 4:36 p.m., in response to message #7 by Hans Brueggemann There is a very good chance that the Mug or the calculator manuals are contracted to non-HP individuals or companies. Hey, since the merger with Compaq, some of that cross-breeding should affect the performance of HP :)

Re: LOL Message #9 Posted by David Smith on 30 Apr 2004, 6:09 p.m., in response to message #7 by Hans Brueggemann I am Pentium of Borg. You shall be aproximated.

Re: It's a mug's auction Message #10 Posted by Dave Shaffer on 30 Apr 2004, 12:38 p.m., in response to message #1 by Julian Bucknall "It's a shame that "Hewlett" is wrongly spelt." Maybe that's how it's spelled in Greek!

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