Back in the day when HP sold prod­ucts, not “solu­tions,” things were dif­fer­ent. Some copy from a 1972 Hewlett-Packard adver­tise­ment:

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. That is the ratio­nale behind every new instru­ment, com­puter or sys­tem that we tell you about in these ads.