Word: hp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quality consultant for Hewlett-Packard, Shelley Comes, 47, was thinking seriously in 1995 about leaving it. Comes was concerned about her 74-year-old mother, who has a heart condition and diabetes and was living all alone on a remote farm five hours away. Then Comes learned that HP was offering telecommuting as an option to its employees. She told her boss she would like to give that elective a whirl. She struck a deal to work three weeks a month from the family farm in Garberville, Calif., and one week from her Mountain View office; then she relocated with...
...manufactured Slingsby T-3 and made it mandatory for all cadets to fly the craft if they want to earn their wings. It is a tiny plane, half the length and one-tenth the weight of the F-16, the Air Force's smallest fighter. But its standard, 160-hp engine was not powerful enough to do spins and loops in the thin Rocky Mountain air over the mile-high academy. So a 7.7-liter, 260-hp engine was crammed into the 25-ft.-long plastic fuselage. With its enhanced power, the two-seat T-3 can fly 200 m.p.h...
...Hewlett-Packard Home PC Pavilion "Sibling Rivalry" Using a pair of warring 10-somethings, this TV spot inventively shows us just how much an HP PC can do. Little sis wants her diary back, big brother won't budge, so she evens the score the way any '90s child would: the kid snaps a photo of her sibling playing air guitar, scans it into her computer and E-mails the image to his crush...
...winner HP Vectra 500 Series...
...buzz WENDY TAYLOR, PC Computing: "HP's Vectra is a solid machine with some of the best networking smarts available in a PC today. Plug it in, follow the instructions, and you've got your own small-office or home-office network--and you don't need a nerd...