"Bill & Dave" M. Malone discusses HP Bio. - Page 1
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author: SgtRock
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 17, 2011, 02:46:00 am
content: Greetings EEVBees:--Michael Malone discusses his new book "Bill and Dave" a history of HP. Chris and Dave should try to get this guy for the Amp Hour. See link below:http://fora.tv/2007/05/18/History_of_Hewlett_Packard"Three weeks in the lab will save you a day in the library every time" Stanley Williams, HP LabsBest RegardsClear Ether

author: Lawsen
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 18, 2011, 08:25:26 pm
content: The Hewlett-Packard Company was founded during the great depression. The family's most notable contribution is to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. None of the children of the Packard's are involved in hardware electrical engineering. Most are involved in software service industry, business, or charity. I enjoyed the Monterey Bay Aquarium very much and the research place near by for the giant sun fish (Moa Moa). The family protested the merger between Compaq and Hewlett-Packard and lost. Their only place is now more in the slump tech investment business, aquarium, and charity. They lost their place in the electronics industry.Surf here:http://www.packard.org/about-the-foundation/our-people/board-of-trustees/julie-e-packard/http://www.packard.org/about-the-foundation/our-people/board-of-trustees/susan-packard-orr/http://www.packard.org/about-the-foundation/our-people/board-of-trustees/david-orr/Hewlett-Packard Company started in a humble garage in Palo Alto during the 1930s Great Depression. Bill Hewlett slept in a dirt floor room by the garage and house in Palo Alto, California. It was not a big brand name as presently. The company hardly made things today, more of a brand name. It does not makes test and measurement instruments, which what started Hewlett-Packard, an audio signal generator. HP was not a computers, printers, and calculator company originally. What is left of the HP legacy is Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, Cupertino, and Singapore, Indonesia.

author: Lanman
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2011, 03:29:41 am
content: Well it depends on which family you are referring. I think most would agree the Packard's most notable contribution has been the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. A huge asset to the medical community and to pediatric medicine as a whole.I consider myself very fortunate to have worked with Bill and Dave on occasion. Mostly doing dog & pony shows when HP released the first RISC based computer systems. I worked for HP Labs during that time under Joel Birnbaum. I remember the first time we showed the Spectrum Architecture to the public and the International Sales force. When idle, the four digit status display showed "F0FF". Hex for something but I can't remember for what exactly. The third digit displayed cpu activity. The marketing guys threw a fit because they thought some people might read the display as saying "F off". I had to write a piece of code to eat up some cpu cycles so the status display wouldn't tell everyone to F OFF.As to the merger, not only were Bill & Dave against the Compaq merger, everyone was against it. I know some people who left HP because they felt the merge was the beginning of the end. At least the end to a working philosophy that Bill & Dave fostered. Carly was seen as a wrecking ball making changes for the sake of change. I had already moved on by then, but I heard all about it from friends. Carly Fiorina made a lot of enemies over that merger and the mention of her name is still like nails on a chaulk board to me.Dave,