And ... after some ex-employees--they claim--pretty much backing-up the scuttlebutt (re the motives behind current Pre-liquidation? State of these remnants of the original Hewlett and Packard edifice)

... some peans to the hP 42S Sci Calculator, successor to the world-beating 41 Series and apare parently containing all the programmability and other bitchin engineering assists. Ah yess.. those days before Muricans replaced all the Corporate scientifically-literate honchos of HP with effete MBA-mill poseurs (and culminated that rapine with the likes of Carly and (that-ebay-killer-CIEIO Meg Whatser?name and her True-brats *spawn.)

* I recall, during Meg's stab at Governor-via-bafflegab, some tales told of the antics of these veritable poster-boys for the generic Spoiled Brat. Another indication of the candidate's ineptness (in other areas than just the Moloch Game of ethics-free bizness.)

Gotta stop following most of these blurbs; each little tale merely confirms Teh Brokenness.
And we knew that. No endorphins there, except in distancing from the details :-/