Anne Laudel got her start at Hewlett-Packard in 1950 as a receptionist. She later became “personnel interviewer” and, by the late 1950s, had become the company’s personnel manager, showing how women a ...

HP Laboratories officially launched in 1966. The new division was created to give engineers the freedom to pursue research and development without the pressure of needing to find an immediate path to ...

Bill and Dave might have taken their work seriously, but they didn’t take themselves too seriously. They regularly participated in comedy skits at company events, such as this one from the dedication ...

Not every innovation in health technology was connected directly to a patient. The LINC-8 from Digital Equipment Corporation proved important for biomedical laboratories processing data from their exp ...

Hewlett-Packard’s first known blood drives date back to the 1940s. Since then, they have remained common at Hewlett-Packard facilities around the globe.

Mary Henry (center) worked at Hewlett-Packard during World War II producing engineering drawings. The money she saved from that job allowed her to pursue a career as an artist after the war. In 1960, ...

Hewlett-Packard’s Loveland, Colorado, plant was the company’s first U.S. facility to be located outside of the Bay Area. It would be the home of the company’s calculator and PC businesses. Hewlett-Pac ...

Since the Hewlett-Packard logo introduced in 1967 could be too big for some products, the company developed a modified logo to adorn some devices. The rectangle encasing the iconic lowercase italic “h ...

Hewlett-Packard promised that the 3950 Instrumentation Recorder would “take the jitter out of your tape path and all the hassle out of tape recording.” Marketed based on its ease of use, this piece of ...

Noel “Ed” Porter exemplified the tight bonds that characterized Hewlett-Packard’s early years, playing a role in several of the company’s most important moments. A childhood friend of Bill Hewlett, it ...