[time-nuts] HP 10811 stabilizing time

[Richard (Rick) Karlquist]

IIRC the internal transfer price was $400.

The whole "business model" of being a captive supplier
was extremely messy, including the calculation of
internal transfer price.  For T&M instruments for
internal consumption, they abandoned "transfer at
cost" decades ago.

This was probably one of the reasons HP abandoned
their traditional vertical integration model.
Jack Kusters used to rant about being jerked
around by the other divisions.

Another issue was that the high end instrument
divisions (eg 8662) wanted the cream of the crop
and the Santa Clara Division had to dispose of
the junk by shipping it with counters.

Rick