Road Shows were an innovation from Norm Neely, who handled Hewlett-Packard’s sales from 1939–1972. They would later evolve into mobile demonstration labs.

Hewlett-Packard began issuing profit-sharing bonuses in its second year of operation. Bill and Dave handed out the checks personally well into the 1950s.

Even early in Hewlett-Packard history, women were not excluded from technician roles. This included jobs involving the circuit etching process at the Palo Alto facility.

Norm Neely (seated at the head of the conference table) created Hewlett-Packard’s first sales operation and ran sales in the American West and Southwest from 1939–1972. At first, Neely Enterprises ope ...

Dave Packard bought a bulldozer and personally helped clear more than 20 miles of road for the San Felipe Ranch, a functioning cattle ranch he and Bill purchased and ran together. At the time, Dave wa ...

In the mid-1950s, Bill and Dave bought their first ranch together, at San Felipe. It was an active cattle ranch that both men loved to work, as well as to use to host visitors and employees. They woul ...

Hewlett-Packard’s first piece of equipment was a used Craftsman drill press that fit on a standard workbench and was valued at $38. A multi-ton punch press from one of Hewlett-Packard’s Page Mill faci ...

As with most company campaigns, employee safety at Hewlett-Packard facilities relied on a participatory culture, where managers and employees worked together to ensure a safe and healthy workplace.

Eight production teams operated at the Stanford Plant in the late 1950s. Women were well-represented on many teams, especially pre-fabrication and assembly and wiring.

Even as Hewlett-Packard branched out into countless new avenues, it continued to thrive on the oscillator market that had first put it on the map. In 1952, the company released the 200AB and the 200CD ...