The 12C platinum is a (still) living proof of that.
In a 1972 advertisement about the hp-35 you can read:
Quote:
Many people know us as an instrument manufacturer: we make more than 2,000 products for measurement, test and analysis. Others know us as a computer company: more than 10,000 own our programmable calculators and computers. We prefer to think that our business is to serve measurement, analysis and computation needs . . . in science, industry, medicine and education.
Current HP does not "serve measurement, analysis and computation needs . . . in science, industry, medicine and education". Current HP is a consumer and corporate products company. Former HP was a company providing products for R&D teams, working at customer core-business projects. Current HP printers come with ink cartridges containing 1/3 ink of regular capacity.
IMO, Agilent is all that is still left of former HP.
Just read the quote above another time, and I guess you´ll agree that technical calculators (opposed from consumer calculators) should be Agilent products.