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Top-down view of a blue ashtray with the 200A schematic etched in its center.
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Hewlett-Packard’s Oscillator Ashtray
Even as Hewlett-Packard grew to be a global operation and a world-renowned leader in R&D, the company remembered its roots. This ashtray from Hewlett-Packard’s first boardroom featured a diagram of th ...
The HP 9100A programmable desktop calculator (left/front view).
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HP 9100A: The Premiere of the PC
One of the most important inventions of the twentieth century, the 9100A was the world’s first commercially available programmable desktop calculator and the first commercial scientific calculator, me ...
Two women working the Hewlett-Packard exhibit at the Fourth Tokyo International Trade Fair.
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HP at Fourth Tokyo International Trade Fair
Two women worked the Hewlett-Packard exhibit at the Fourth Tokyo International Trade Fair. The booth featured a scale model of the company’s main plant. “The model plus the flanking color transparenci ...
Dave Packard speaking with a female employee in the 1960s.
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HP Emphasizes Culture and Community
As part of the HP Way, Bill and Dave sought to build community and positive culture within the company. A key component of their plan was to encourage employees of all ranks to socialize, which includ ...
A group of HP Frequency & Time Division employees cheering on as miniature cars go down a track.
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HP Engineers at Play
Associates in Hewlett-Packard’s Frequency & Time (F&T) Division could apply their technological knowledge and resources to all sorts of creative activities around the office, including a miniature car ...
Man works on the SC4400 magnetic tape recorder.
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HP Enters Computer Storage Market
Hewlett-Packard first entered the market for producing computer storage solutions with the acquisition of Datamec, Inc. in 1965. Datamec produced magnetic tape recorders such as the SC4400. As a part ...
Trade show display for the products of Hewlett-Packard's Moseley Division.
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HP Establishes Moseley Division
Hewlett-Packard’s first move into printing came with the 1958 acquisition of FL Moseley Company, which made graphic printing devices. The new Moseley division became in effect Hewlett-Packard’s first ...
The Douglass DC-6B airplane custom-outfitted as the Flying Demonstration Lab for Hewlett-Packard.
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HP Flying Demonstration Lab
Around 1969, Hewlett-Packard deployed its Flying Demonstration Lab, a Douglass DC-6B custom-outfitted to exhibit Hewlett-Packard products, on a 110-day trip around the world. It stopped at 46 cities i ...
A internal communication from Dave Packard discussing the non-discrimination policy.
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HP Formalizes Nondiscrimination Policy
Hewlett-Packard operated on a policy of nondiscrimination from its beginnings, but in the early years the policy was unstated. On March 6, 1964, amid the tumult of the Civil Rights movement, Dave Pack ...
Photo of unnamed Blue Star team members in front of the Blue Star House building.
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HP Making Inroads in India
Hewlett-Packard’s presence in India began in 1964, but the company’s business in India really began to take off with a company agreement with Blue Star, Ltd. in 1970. Founded as a refrigeration equipm ...