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10 Years of Yokogawa Hewlett-Packard
Lucile Packard and Flora Hewlett joined their husbands and the Hewlett-Packard board of directors on a special trip to Japan to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Yokogawa Hewlett-Packard (later Hewlet ...
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1972–1976: A Series of Calculators
By 1976, just four years after the introduction of the HP 35, calculators had become a booming business at Hewlett-Packard. This opportunity led to an array of products, all of which built upon the de ...
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A Bonsai for the Boss
In 1977, Kyoko Sagimori of Hewlett-Packard’s Santa Clara division gave Hewlett-Packard a glass bonsai tree. A glassblower who pursued art in her spare time, Sagimori crafted the item on lunch breaks a ...
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A Loaded Deck of Cards
To assist the users of its programmable calculators, Hewlett-Packard began offering magnetic card inserts pre-programmed with popular scientific and financial calculation applications. Customers could ...
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A Serious Offering: HP Series E Calculators
Series E was the first collection of Hewlett-Packard handheld calculators with a diagnostic error code system which identified errors made by the user in entering data. With both business (HP 37E and ...
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A Signature Color Scheme
The Hewlett-Packard logo’s blue and white color scheme was first introduced in 1979 as part of a logo redesign. The color scheme would continue to be a part of the company’s brand from that point forw ...
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A Superstar Product: The HP 65 Calculator
The HP 65 programmable pocket calculator was codenamed “Superstar.” At an opening price of $795, a fraction of the cost of a programmable desktop calculator, the HP 65 made computer programming more a ...
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Adding Innovation: The HP 35
The HP 35 was the world’s first handheld scientific calculator, meaning it was capable of performing advanced mathematics. Marketed primarily through the mail, this product was Hewlett-Packard’s first ...
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Avoiding Layoffs: Nine-Day Fortnight
In 1970, the entire electronics industry was in a severe recession. Hewlett-Packard was not immune, but where other companies were implementing layoffs, Hewlett-Packard implemented the famous “nine-da ...
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Barney Oliver: The Boss of HP Labs
The first head of HP Labs was Barney Oliver, who had joined Hewlett-Packard as head of R&D in 1952 and who Bill and Dave had known since their undergraduate days at Stanford. Oliver remained at the he ...