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A man and woman seated at a picnic table outdoors.
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HP: First US Company with Flex Time
Hewlett-Packard Company was the first American company to implement flex time in the United States, having observed the benefits of the program at the company’s plant in Böblingen, West Germany, since ...
Harry Portwood teaching an electronics class at the Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1975.
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HP’s Faculty Loan Program at HBCUs
In 1975, Hewlett-Packard launched a faculty loan program in which HP engineers taught at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) with the company’s assistance. Harry Portwood spent at lea ...
Ken Coleman, personnel manager at HP, speaks to an unnamed employee in 1972.
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HP’s First Employee Resource Group
Ken Coleman joined HP as a personnel manager in 1972. Soon thereafter, he co-founded (with Howard Smith, not pictured) Hewlett-Packard’s first employee resource group, a network of Black functional ma ...
A photo of recycling efforts at HP in 1971. A man holds a sign that reads Recycled Office Supplies Here at 3L.
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HP’s First Internal Recycling Program
Hewlett-Packard began its first internal recycling program at its Palo Alto facility in 1966, which continued into the 1970s.
Photo of the top and two sides of the HP 7910 disk drive.
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HP’s First Winchester Drive: The 7910
The 7910 disk drive was Hewlett-Packard’s first use of IBM’s “Winchester” technology, which began an industry standard for memory that continued until 2011. The 7910 offered 12MB of storage and was fi ...
California Industrialist of the Year award bearing the name William Hewlett.
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Industrialists of the Year
Bill and Dave were named California’s Industrialists of the Year in 1973 for their “devotion and dedication to improving the quality of American life both inside and outside of their company.” The awa ...
Jane Evans operating equipment on the cover of the Hewlett-Packard Journal in January 1975.
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Jane Evans: Women Engineers at HP
Jane Evans began her 25-year career at HP as an applications engineer in 1965. She was the first female engineer HP hired with her degree-in-hand, but that wasn’t Evans’ first milestone. When she earn ...
Photo of the HP 65 calculator in its locking cradle with key in the lock.
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Locked Down: HP 65 Locking Cradle
The notion of a personal electronic device small enough to be easily stolen and valuable enough to protect was a novel concept in the 1970s. Hewlett-Packard addressed this new issue by offering a lock ...
Bill Hewlett, Dave Packard and other men during the unveiling of a sign at Hewlett-Packard Malaysia in 1972.
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Made in Malaysia: HP in Malaysia
Hewlett-Packard Malaysia (HPM) started as a semi-conductor Manufacturing Division on September 6, 1972.
A woman goes through rows of magnetic tape reels in a storage room.
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Magnetic Tapes: An Attractive Solution
Magnetic tape reels took up more space than other forms of digital memory, but their stability and favorable cost-per-bit ratio made them a popular early storage medium for enterprise computer backups ...