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Distinguished Citizen Award presented to Bill Hewlett by the City of Palo Alto in 1977.
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Bill Hewlett’s Philanthropy
Bill Hewlett was an active philanthropist as a private citizen in addition to his work through Hewlett-Packard. He and his wife founded their own nonprofit organization, The William and Flora Hewlett ...
Bill Hewlett on stage at a Santa Clara County United Way fundraising event in 1975.
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Bill, a Founder of Santa Clara’s United Fund
Bill Hewlett was one of the founders of Santa Clara County’s United Fund (predecessor to the modern United Way) in 1959, and Hewlett-Packard embraced the new organization from the start. Employee part ...
Lynn Tillman and Janet Loustanou giving Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard a tutorial on the HP 70 financial calculator.
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Calculations: Bill and Dave Tutored on HP 70
Lynn Tillman (second from left) and Janet Loustanou (far right) gave Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard a tutorial on the HP 70 financial calculator. Tillman, a lab development manager, was responsible for ...
Dave Packard speaking with an employee near a CRT monitor displaying 10,000th on its screen in 1977.
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Celebrating 10,000 CRTs
Before the rise of affordable LED systems (which Hewlett-Packard developed), cathode-ray tube (CRT) displays dominated computer monitor technology. Hewlett-Packard had a head start in CRT technology b ...
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Coaching for a Cause
HP employees Craig Walter (left) and Lee Thompson volunteered as coaches for a youth football league in Loveland, Colorado. They were part of a group of 16 HP employees who gave time as coaches or boa ...
A photo of the HP 250 Business Computer with its integrated desk design.
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Computer For Beginners: The HP 250
In a sign of computers’ increasing importance to business, Hewlett-Packard designed the 250 Business Computer to offer small businesses “an approachable computer that is friendly, simple, and interact ...
A woman working on the Comsys system used to communicate with HP facilities all over the globe in 1974.
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Comsys: You’ve Got Electronic Mail
In 1974, Hewlett-Packard launched Comsys, a predecessor to the modern intranet and email. After years in development, Comsys created a network in which computers at Hewlett-Packard facilities all over ...
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Contributions from All the People
Check out this interview from 1977, where several Hewlett-Packard employees describe what makes the company special. Both Bill and Dave make appearances to talk about company culture.
A photo of two computer circuit boards in the foreground and HP employee working in the background.
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Crafted by Hand
Hewlett-Packard first entered the computer market before the invention of the microprocessor, making computer construction and operation all the more challenging. These CPU registers for Hewlett-Packa ...
Photo of Ernest Priestly in front of a workstation taken in 1978.
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Creating an Opportunity Loop
HP’s educational and employment initiatives to improve equality sometimes reinforced one other. In 1975, Howard University engineering student Ernest Priestly began working at Hewlett-Packard the summ ...