HP Forum Archive 17

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HP Journal Message #1 Posted by Vincze on 20 Aug 2007, 10:05 a.m. I stumble across website last night on HP site that house all old HP Journals. It very nice to read some of these. It look like it go up to 1998, but then stop. What happen to the journal, did it just stop being made?

Re: HP Journal Message #2 Posted by HrastProgrammer on 20 Aug 2007, 3:15 p.m., in response to message #1 by Vincze The answer is on the same site: "The HP Journal was published from 1949 - 1998, earning a well-respected tradition of excellence."

Re: HP Journal Message #3 Posted by Vincze on 20 Aug 2007, 4:05 p.m., in response to message #2 by HrastProgrammer Why they stop publication?

Re: HP Journal Message #4 Posted by Stefan Vorkoetter on 20 Aug 2007, 4:21 p.m., in response to message #3 by Vincze Perhaps 1998 was when they stopped doing anything interesting, thus having something interesting to write about? An interesting coincidence that 49 and 98 were the number of steps of program memory in several of the early HP programmables. Stefan

Re: HP Journal - It's Back (sort of)! Message #5 Posted by Katie Wasserman on 20 Aug 2007, 11:54 p.m., in response to message #4 by Stefan Vorkoetter Stefan, are you a numerologist? :) Well yes, in fact HP did stop doing anything interesting about then because they were about to spin off Agilent and Agilent Labs -- the source of most of the stuff in the journal and almost all the interesting things that HP did. I don't know why Agilent didn't keep the Journal running, perhaps they just didn't have the funding to do so. .... after searching the internet a bit..... Curiously, they seemed to have just recently revived the journal as Agilent Measurement Journal. It's a shame that the calculator division isn't part of Agilent. Edited: 20 Aug 2007, 11:58 p.m.

Re: HP Journal - It's Back (sort of)! Message #6 Posted by Stefan Vorkoetter on 21 Aug 2007, 10:30 a.m., in response to message #5 by Katie Wasserman Quote: Stefan, are you a numerologist? :) No, I just have this runaway pattern matcher always running in the background in my brain. I tend to notice pointless meaningless stuff like that (along with a lot of pointful meaningful stuff too of course). Stefan

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