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Photo of Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-10 featuring large teal units and several terminals.
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Growth of Digital Equipment: PDP-10
Digital Equipment Corporation’s PDP-10, first released in 1966 and shown here as part of the company’s DECsystem line, was one of the most important computers ever produced. It made time-share computi ...
A letter from Bill Hewlett discussing Hewlett-Packard’s “open door policy” and its importance to the company culture.
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Hewlett-Packard’s Open Door Policy
This letter from Bill Hewlett discussed Hewlett-Packard’s “open door policy” and its importance to the company culture.
HP 25C calculator with continuous memory.
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HP 25C: A Calculator Worth C-ing
The HP 25C handheld calculator was Hewlett-Packard’s first programmable handheld product with “continuous memory,” meaning that it could retain information after the device was turned off without requ ...
An ad for the HP 35 featuring the device held in one hand with text emphasizing its portability, power and reasonable price.
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HP 35: Marketed to the Consumer
On January 4, 1972, Hewlett-Packard introduced the HP 35, the first handheld scientific calculator. Designed to fit into a shirt pocket (under Bill Hewlett’s direction), the device was the first produ ...
A man in an office works on the HP 9830A programmable calculator, considered by some to be HP's first desktop PC.
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HP 9830A: The Dawn of the Desktop
The 9830A programmable calculator was arguably Hewlett-Packard’s first desktop PC, which would also make it one of the earliest devices in the history of desktop computing. At the top of Hewlett-Packa ...
Top view of the HP 9862A plotter, one of the company's earliest personal printers.
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HP 9862A: Personal Printing
The HP 9862A plotter was designed to work with desktop calculators, specifically Hewlett-Packard’s 9800 series, making it one of the company’s earliest personal printers.
Pettus Hickman working at Hewlett-Packard as part of the FAME program in 1978.
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HP Avondale Division and FAME
Many HP diversity initiatives launched at the local level. In 1978, the Avondale division began participating in FAME, the Forum to Advance Minorities in Engineering, which sought to provide education ...
Bill Hewlett, Linda Standley and Paul Ely attending an employee meeting in 1974.
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HP Discusses Equal Opportunity
In 1974, Hewlett-Packard leaders Bill Hewlett, Linda Standley and Paul Ely answered direct questions from employees about the company’s equal opportunity employment practices. Standley, who worked in ...
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 ...
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HP-65 Gets With the Medical Program
HP calculators could be programmed to perform medical functions. These cards for the HP-65 programmable scientific calculator contained programs for cardiopulmonary applications. Other HP-65 programs ...