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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 ...
A still photo from a Hewlett-Packard company video on racism and sexism used in the company's equal opportunity workshop.
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Education Efforts: Diversity Training
Many of HP’s diversity efforts were well ahead of their time. In 1975, the company produced a new video to help employees understand not just the obvious injustices of conscious discrimination, but th ...
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.
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A print ad for the HP-21 calculator.
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The HP 21: Uncompromising Innovation
Building on the success of the HP 35 product line, the company introduced a new, more advanced generation of pocket calculators in 1975. One Hewlett-Packard publication noted that the HP 21 would be a ...