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| The HP Way | "We have trust and respect for individuals..." |
| "The Great Innovators" | Business Week: "...the birthplace of a new approach to management" |
| "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." |
| "Origins" watch order | HP's 2005 film – photographs, oral histories, film footage, and interviews with former employees |
| HP History and Facts | HP: Timeline, Virtual Museum |
| Bill Hewlett on Management | "The Human Side Of Management" by Bill Hewlett – on private site of Ed Sharpe |
| Packard on Management | David Packard's "11 Simple Rules... for getting along with others" – 1958 |
| HP Way | "The HP Way was a way of life" |
| Agilent History | Agilent: Timeline |
| HP CEOs | HP: Biographies of all HP CEOs |
| HP Garage | HP: History of the garage and the first years of the company |
| Acquisitions, Divestitures | HPAA's list of dates when HP acquired and divested companies |
| William R. Hewlett | "...ceaseless desire to inspire excellence." |
| William R. Hewlett | "His greatest gift... was not the compass he could build with his hands, but his moral compass." |
| Remembering Bill Hewlett | "...philanthropy, curiosity, love of nature and music, good humor and stubborn streak." |
| Hewlett Oral History | Transcript of 1984 IEEE History Center interview – A. Michal McMahon |
| Bill Hewlett on Creativity | "Random Thoughts on Creativity" – Commencement Speech at MIT, 1986 |
| Bill Hewlett Tribute | "Remembering Bill Hewlett" by John Minck |
| David Packard | "...where he had taken a job washing dishes." |
| Farewell to David Packard | "Dave was a decider, not a ducker. He knew what he thought, and he made decisions that worked." |
| David Packard | "...wasn't afraid to point out what was wrong and suggest improvements." |
| "Big Dave's Legacy" | The Packards and Monterey County... "Dave said, 'That's fine, but where are the birds?' " |
| David Packard Tribute | "In appreciation of David Packard" by John Minck |
| Fred Terman | Mentor to Hewlett and Packard |
| Silent Partners | "Bill and Dave had two silent partners... their wives." |
| Lucile Packard | "Lucile Packard's ideals and paycheck fueled the HP start-up, then shaped community history." |
| Bill's and Dave's Offices | An online photo tour of Bill's and Dave's preserved offices – including the famous "open doors." |
| Hewlett-Packard 1938-2002 | Statement by David Woodley Packard, May 2002 |
| Hewlett Foundation | "...to address the most serious social and environmental problems facing society, where risk capital, responsibly invested, may make a difference over time." |
| Packard Foundation | "...provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the following program areas: Conservation and Science; Population; and Children, Families, and Communities." |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium | David Packard helped create exhibits at his forge in Big Sur. |
| 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 |
| Forums on HP history and products | HPAA's directory of independent online forums on vintage HP equipment, publications, and manuals. |
| 200A Audio Oscillator |
The first HP product, Bill Hewlett's oscillator – from HP's "virtual museum" |
| Inside HP (revised 2/11) | A personal narrative history of HP from 1939-1990 – John Minck (2MB pdf, 103 pages) |
| Memoirs of Hewlett-Packard people |
Learn from what went right – and what went wrong
– at HP over the years. For example, the first two HP laser
printers were not very successful. Articles by key HP engineers and managers: - Hank Taylor – Information technology visionary. - Art Fong – Adventures of the engineer who created many of HP's most successful products. - Chuck House – Engineering politics – management, customers, and engineering team. - John Minck – A work culture trip through the Golden Age of high tech. - Dave Cochran – How the blockbuster HP-35 handheld came about. - Ray Smelek – Management, opening new operations overseas, growing successful leaders. - Bob DeVries – The perspective of an inventive mechanical engineer and product designer. - George Stanley – Crucial role of customer and sales training. - Jim Hall – The difficult route to the LaserJet's "overnight success." - Ed Phillips – Overcoming a continuing string of challenging design issues. Developed and introduced by John Minck. On Marc Mislanghe's personal HP Memory Project site. |
| Barney Oliver | Oral history by Barney Oliver, founder of HP Labs – Charles Babbage Institute |
| HP Early Years | Rough draft and source materials – private site of Ed Sharpe |
| "HP Memory Project" | History of HP in products from 1939-2000 – private site by Marc Mislanghe |
| HP Computer History | "HP: The Accidentally On-Purpose Computer Company" – Steve Leibson |
| HP Computer History | "HP and Compaq: A Trip Down Memory Lane" – Loyd Case |
| HP Test Equipment | Online museum and technical history of HP instruments – Kenneth Kuhn |
| "HP Archive" Site | Searchable pdf files: 15,000 pages of catalogs, manuals, periodicals, app notes... – Glenn Robb |
| Museum of HP Calculators | Displays and describes HP calculators introduced from 1968 to 1986 – Dave Hicks |
| HP-01 | Wrist Instrument Opens New Dimension in Personal Information – HP Journal |
| HP-35 | A personal history of the breakthrough handheld device – John Minck (pages 71-75) |
| HP 80 Series | Documentation and software for HP-85 family of BASIC microcomputers – Vassilis Prevelakis |
| HP 9100 | How the Model 9100A Was Developed – Barney Oliver |
| HP 9825 | The HP 9825 desktop computer was way before its time – Steve Leibson |
| HP 9845 | The HP 9845 Preservation Project |
| HP Computer Museum | Photos, documentation, literature, and downloadable software – Jon Johnston |
| HP Computer Manuals | Service manuals and other documentation for many HP computers – Al Kossow |
| HP's Early Computers | Interview with Barney Oliver – Kip Crosby |
| HP's Early Computers | Interview with Joe Schoendorf – Kip Crosby |
| HP 1000 | "25 Years of Real-Time Computing – the HP 1000" – Todd Poynor, updated by Don Pottenger |
| HP 3000 | The History of the HP 3000 – Bob Green |
| HP 3000 humor | "Lunch, the HP Way" – parody by Stephen Harrison and Noel Magee |
| HP 3000 | "The Rise, Fall and Rise of the 3000" – Christopher Edler |
| HP 9000 | "The HP 9000 Computer" – Frank McConnell |
| HP 9000 | HP 9000 model history in the Wikipedia* |
| PA-RISC | PA-RISC model history in the Wikipedia* |
| HP-UX | HP-UX release history in the Wikipedia* |
| HP 250/260 | HP 250/260 Preservation Project |
| HP 300 | HP 300 (Amigo) note in the Wikipedia* |
| Plotters and Recorders | San Diego Division and F. L. Moseley Co. |
| The Jet Set Turns 20 | HP: History of the ThinkJet, LaserJet, and DeskJet product lines |
| Inkjet Printers | "Printing Enters the Jet Age" – from American Heritage Invention & Technology |
| Inkjet Printers | "Close-up on color printing" – from HP Labs |
| LaserJet | HP LaserJet – The Early History. By Jim Hall |
| Semiconductors at HP | History of HP's semiconductor business – from Avago Technologies |
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* Note: Wikipedia articles change over time, may not cover all aspects of the topic consistently, and may not be written from a neutral point of view. |
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| Catalogs | 15,000 pages of catalogs, manuals, periodicals, app notes... Searchable pdf files – Glenn Robb |
| HP Journal |
All issues – 1949-1998 – HP Labs.
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| HP Journal Indexes | Searchable pdf files – Glenn Robb |
| Measure | HP employee magazine. Searchable pdf files – Glenn Robb |
| Manuals | Manuals, Bench Briefs, Application Notes, more. Searchable pdf files – Glenn Robb |
| Digital Technical Journal | Issues from 1991-1998 in pdf form – HP Labs |
| Tandem Systems Review | All issues in pdf form – HP Labs |
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HP- Tandem- and EDS-Related Business Books |
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| For a directory of business books about HP, click here: HP Books | |
| For a directory of business books about Tandem, click here: Tandem Books | |
| For a directory of business books about EDS, click here: EDS Books | |
| See Social and Networking Directory and Directory of Acquisitions and Divestitures | |
| 3Com | 3Com acquisitions |
| 3Com | 3Com history |
| Agilent | Agilent timeline |
| Agilent | Agilent Wikipedia* article – with references and links |
| Apollo | Apollo Wikipedia* article – with references and links |
| Apollo | University of Michigan Apollo Archive – with many links |
| Compaq | Compaq company history (via the Internet Archive) |
| Compaq | Compaq/DEC Timeline |
| Compaq | Compaq Wikipedia* article – with references and links |
| Convex | Convex Wikipedia* article – with references and links |
| Convex | Danny Faught's Convex Archives |
| DEC | Gordon Bell's "CyberMuseum for DEC" – with many references and links |
| DEC | Timelines, archival documents, trivia quiz, cartoon |
| DEC | DEC contributions in architecture, Internet, services, storage, software, semiconductors, networking |
| DEC | DEC Wikipedia* article – with references and links |
| DEC | DEC Connection history pages. Data, photos, links, books about DEC. |
| EDS | Electronic Data Systems Wikipedia* article – with references and links |
| EDS | EDS history on HP's retiree site |
| Mercury Interactive | Mercury Interactive Wikipedia* article – with references and links |
| Tandem | Tandem Wikipedia* article – with references and links |
| Tandem Systems Review | "Technical information about Tandem software releases and products" (1983 -1994) |
| Tandem Value System | "Tandem Value System – Core Values and Business Relationships" |
| VeriFone | VeriFone Wikipedia* article – with references and links |
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* Note: Wikipedia articles change over time, may not cover all aspects of the topic consistently, and may not be written from a neutral point of view. |
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