From the HP Archives…
Bill Hewlett did not give as many speeches as did Dave Packard. His long-time secretary told me he did not enjoy speaking, but he did write his own speeches, and worked very hard on them. So there are not as many quotes from him as there are from Dave
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It’s Photo Day, this being Friday, and this month I will feature Bill Hewlett. This may be the earliest photo we have of Bill in the HP Archives. He is pictured rappelling on Mt. Owen, California, in 1930, the year he entered Stanford University. Bill
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Hello, I’m sorry I’ve been gone for a while; HP moved to a new blogging platform, but I am back up now. Since I wrote about David and Lucile Packard last month, this month I will concentrate on Bill Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Company. To start
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Monday is “Quote Day” in the HP Archives, and since we’ve been talking about Dave and Lucile and their contributions, I thought I would start with a quote from Dave Packard about contribution. In 1960 he addressed an HP management training session and
I’ve referred several times to “Valued Partners,” the current exhibit at the Los Altos History Museum. The exhibit is a real eye-opener about the contributions David and Lucile Packard made to the community separately and together. The next program in
Well, it happened again. Today someone dropped by the archives, and I got distracted by something totally interesting. Turns out my visitor is a “ham”—a ham radio operator. He asked me if I knew Dave Packard’s ham radio call number. Dave was a ham, as
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As mentioned in my last blog, last week I attended a program called “The HP Phenomenon,” sponsored by the Los Altos History Museum. It featured a panel of gentlemen who had worked for HP as contemporaries and friends of Dave Packard, and basically, they
A couple of weeks ago I attended a very moving event put on by the Los Altos History Museum. It was held in the local high school auditorium, and it was called “Lucile Packard, Woman of Grace.” A panel of 6 people (one of her daughters, and five men who
Hello, and welcome to my blog! I’m Anna Mancini, and I’m Hewlett Packard’s corporate archivist. That means that I track the history of HP, and do my best to share HP’s exciting story with employees, customers, and the rest of the world. I thought a blog
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