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Company |
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The HP Way |
"We have trust and respect
for individuals..." |
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"The Great Innovators" |
Business Week: "...the
birthplace of a new approach to management" |
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"Great Garages" |
Forbes: "...the key
to the greatness of Bill Hewlett and David Packard was that
they held no attachment to things, only people." |
| "Founding Fathers" |
Stanford Magazine: "...their contribution... was as
much organizational as technological." |
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HP
History and Facts |
HP: Timeline, Virtual Museum |
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Bill Hewlett on Management |
"The Human Side Of Management" by
Bill Hewlett – on private site of Ed Sharpe |
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Packard on Management |
David Packard's "11 Simple Rules...
for getting along with others" – 1958 |
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HP Way |
"The HP Way was a way of life" |
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Agilent History |
Agilent: Timeline |
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HP CEOs |
HP: Biographies of all HP CEOs |
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"A Trek through Time" |
HP: History of the garage and
the first years of the company |
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Acquisitions, Divestitures |
HPAA's list of dates when HP acquired and
divested companies |
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Founders |
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William R. Hewlett
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"...ceaseless desire to inspire
excellence." |
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William R. Hewlett |
"His greatest gift... was not the compass he could build with his
hands, but his moral compass."
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Remembering Bill Hewlett |
"...philanthropy,
curiosity, love of nature and music, good humor and stubborn
streak."
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Hewlett Oral History |
Transcript of 1984 IEEE History
Center interview – A. Michal McMahon |
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Bill Hewlett on Creativity |
"Random Thoughts on Creativity" –
Commencement Speech at MIT, 1986 |
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David Packard |
"...where he had taken a job washing
dishes." |
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Farewell to David Packard |
"Dave was a decider, not a ducker.
He knew what he thought, and he made decisions that worked." |
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David Packard |
"...wasn't afraid to point out what
was wrong and suggest improvements." |
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"Big Dave's Legacy" |
The Packards and Monterey County... "Dave
said, 'That's fine, but where are the birds?' " |
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Fred Terman |
Mentor to Hewlett and Packard |
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Silent Partners |
"Bill and Dave had two
silent partners... their wives." |
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Bill's and Dave's Offices |
An online photo tour of Bill's and
Dave's preserved offices – including the famous "open doors." |
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Hewlett-Packard 1938-2002 |
Statement by David Woodley Packard,
May 2002 |
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Hewlett
Foundation |
"...to address the most
serious social and environmental problems facing society,
where risk capital, responsibly invested, may make a
difference over time." |
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Packard
Foundation |
"...provides grants to nonprofit
organizations in the following program areas: Conservation
and Science; Population; and Children, Families, and
Communities." |
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Monterey Bay Aquarium |
David Packard helped create exhibits
at his forge in Big Sur. |
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute |
"Take risks. Ask big questions.
Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes,
you're not reaching far enough." – David Packard |
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Products and Reminiscences |
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History and
Products |
HPAA's directory of
independent online forums on vintage HP equipment,
publications, and manuals. |
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200A Audio Oscillator |
The first HP product, Bill
Hewlett's oscillator – from HP's "virtual museum"
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Inside HP
(revised 10/06) |
A 96-page personal narrative history of HP
from 1939-1990 – John Minck (1.4MB pdf) |
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Barney Oliver |
Oral history by Barney Oliver,
founder of HP Labs –
Charles Babbage Institute |
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HP Early Years |
Rough draft and source materials –
private site of Ed Sharpe |
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"HP Memory
Project" |
History of HP in products from
1939-2000 – private site by Marc Mislanghe |
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HP
Computer History |
"HP: The Accidentally On-Purpose
Computer Company" – Steve Leibson |
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HP
Computer History |
"HP and Compaq: A Trip Down Memory
Lane" – Loyd Case |
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HP Test Equipment |
Online museum and technical history
of HP instruments – Kenneth Kuhn |
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"HP Archive"
Site |
Searchable pdf files: 15,000 pages
of catalogs, manuals, periodicals, app notes... – Glenn Robb |
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Museum of HP
Calculators |
Displays and describes HP
calculators introduced from 1968 to 1986 – Dave Hicks
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HP-01 |
Wrist Instrument Opens New Dimension
in Personal Information – HP Journal |
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HP-35 |
A history of the HP 35 – John Minck
(pages 65-69) |
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HP 80 Series |
Documentation and software for HP-85
family of BASIC microcomputers – Vassilis Prevelakis |
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HP
9100 |
How the Model 9100A Was Developed –
Barney Oliver |
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HP 9825 |
The HP 9825 desktop computer was way
before its time – Steve Leibson |
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HP Computer
Museum |
Photos, documentation, literature,
and downloadable software – Jon Johnston |
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HP
Computer Manuals |
Service manuals and other documentation for many
HP computers
– Al Kossow |
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HP's Early Computers |
Interview with Barney Oliver – Kip
Crosby |
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HP's Early Computers |
Interview with Joe Schoendorf – Kip
Crosby |
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HP
1000 |
"25 Years of Real-Time Computing – the HP
1000" – Todd Poynor, updated by Don Pottenger |
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HP 3000 |
The History of the HP 3000 – Bob Green |
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HP 3000 |
"Lunch, the HP Way" – parody by
Stephen Harrison and Noel Magee |
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HP 3000 |
"The Rise, Fall and Rise of the
3000" – Christopher Edler |
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HP 9000 |
"The HP 9000 Computer" –
Frank
McConnell |
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HP 9000 |
HP 9000 model history in the
Wikipedia |
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PA-RISC |
PA-RISC model history in the
Wikipedia |
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HP-UX |
HP-UX release history in the
Wikipedia |
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HP
300 |
HP 300 (Amigo) note in the
Wikipedia |
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Plotters and Recorders |
San Diego Division and F. L. Moseley
Co. |
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The Jet Set Turns 20 |
HP: History of the ThinkJet,
LaserJet, and DeskJet product lines |
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Inkjet Printers |
"Printing Enters the Jet Age" – from
American Heritage Invention & Technology |
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Inkjet Printers |
"Close-up on color printing" – from
HP Labs |
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LaserJet |
Early laser printer history – from
printer parts company Printer Works |
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Semiconductors at HP |
History of HP's semiconductor
business – from Avago Technologies |
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Computer History Links
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Many HP and DEC sites listed –
Computer History Association of California |
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HP Publications |
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Catalogs |
15,000 pages of catalogs, manuals,
periodicals, app notes... Searchable pdf files – Glenn Robb |
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HP Journal |
All issues – 1949-1998 – HP Labs.
The search box on the page does not work. Enter this into Google
search:
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site:hpl.hp.com ] |
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HP
Journal Indexes |
Searchable pdf files – Glenn Robb |
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Measure |
HP employee magazine. Searchable pdf files – Glenn Robb |
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Manuals |
Manuals, Bench Briefs, Application
Notes, more. Searchable pdf files – Glenn Robb |
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Digital Technical Journal |
Issues from 1991-1998 in pdf form –
HP Labs |
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Tandem Systems Review |
All issues in pdf form – HP Labs |
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Books About HP (most recently published first) |
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Bill & Dave by Michael S.
Malone
Portfolio Hardcover (April 5, 2007) ISBN-10: 1591841526
Portfolio Paperback
(March 25, 2008) ISBN-10: 1591841879
Limited preview at
Google Book Search |
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Bill & Dave's Memos
by Albert Yuen
Self-Published via Amazon's BookSurge Publishing (February 8,
2007) ISBN-10: 1424327814
Search inside the book at
Amazon |
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Tough Choices: A Memoir
by Carly Fiorina
Portfolio Hardcover (October 9, 2006) ISBN-10: 159184133X
Portfolio Paperback (September 25,
2007) ISBN-10: 159184181X
Limited preview at
Google Book Search |
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Backfire: Carly Fiorina's
High-Stakes Battle for the Soul of Hewlett-Packard
by Peter Burrows
Wiley Hardcover (February 15, 2003) ISBN-10: 0471267651
Limited preview at
Google Book Search |
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Perfect Enough: Carly
Fiorina and the Reinvention of Hewlett Packard
by George Anders
Out of print.
Portfolio Hardcover (January 23, 2003) ISBN-10: 1591840031
Portfolio Paperback (January 27, 2004) ISBN-10: 1591840325
Snippet view at
Google Book Search
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The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and
I Built Our Company by David Packard, David Kirby, Karen
Lewis
Collins Hardcover (May 24, 1995) ISBN-10: 0887307477
Collins Paperback (January 3, 2006) ISBN-10: 0060845791 (New
forward by Jim Collins.)
Search inside the book at
Amazon |
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Built to Last: Successful
Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim
Collins and Jerry I. Porras (HP is extensively discussed.)
Collins Hardcover (October 26, 1994) ISBN-10: 0060566108 for 2nd
edition
Collins Paperback (August 20, 2002) ISBN-10: 0060516402
Limited preview at
Google Book Search
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The Gamesman: The New
Corporate Leaders by Michael Maccoby
(Dick Hackborn is the thinly-disguised example.)
Out of print.
Bantam Paperback (January 1978) ISBN-10: 0553114506 or
0553230999
Simon & Schuster Hardcover (January 31, 1977) ISBN-10:
0671223534
Snippet view at
Google Book Search |
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Acquisitions
and Spinoffs |
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Also see HPAA's directory of
independent networks, groups, and websites for current and
former Hewlett-Packard people. |
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Agilent |
Agilent timeline |
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Agilent |
Agilent Wikipedia* article – with references
and links |
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Apollo |
Apollo Wikipedia* article – with references
and links |
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Apollo |
University of Michigan Apollo Archive – with many links
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Compaq |
Compaq company history (via the
Internet Archive) |
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Compaq |
Compaq/DEC Timeline |
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Compaq |
Compaq Wikipedia* article – with references
and links |
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Convex |
Convex Wikipedia* article – with references
and links |
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Convex |
Danny Faught's Convex Archives |
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DEC |
Gordon Bell's "CyberMuseum for DEC"
– with many references and links |
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DEC |
Timelines, archival documents,
trivia quiz, cartoon |
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DEC |
DEC contributions in architecture,
Internet, services, storage, software, semiconductors,
networking |
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DEC |
DEC Wikipedia* article – with references
and links |
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DEC |
DEC Connection history pages. Data,
photos, links, books about DEC. |
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EDS |
Electronic Data Systems Wikipedia* article – with references
and links |
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EDS |
Company history on EDS website
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EDS |
Timeline on EDS website
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Mercury Interactive |
Mercury Interactive Wikipedia* article – with references
and links |
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Tandem |
Tandem Wikipedia* article – with references
and links |
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VeriFone |
VeriFone Wikipedia* article – with references
and links |
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