358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.

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LVB ◴[12 Oct 25 05:46 UTC] No.45555605[source]▶

HP TouchPad

Just on principle, I'd have liked to see it on the market for more than 49 days! It pains me as an engineer to think of the effort to bring a hardware device to market for such a minuscule run.

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1. Hobadee ◴[14 Oct 25 04:07 UTC] No.45576170[source]▶

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My dad had one. He was an HP employee and they opened them up to internal purchases when they took them off the market.

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