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The HP 5100A: A New Approach to R&D

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Date: 1963

The 5100A Synthesizer generated electrical signals with unprecedented precision. According to Bill Hewlett, its technical demands were so great it was also Hewlett-Packard’s first product to be developed by a large group: “The development of the synthesizer … marked a change in Hewlett-Packard’s product-development procedure. Most prior developments were basically a one-person, or at most a small-team, short-term effort. In contrast, development of the frequency synthesizer was distinctly a team effort, requiring almost 40-man-years of engineering spread over a period of about three years — a major commitment to a new technology.”

Tags: 1960s • 1963 • Synthesizer

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