Hewlett-Packard’s leadership continued to embrace a hands-on, interpersonal approach even as it grew to be a large global company and after Bill and Dave retired from day-to-day management. Here, John ...

During a visit to China by then-Hewlett-Packard CEO John Young in 1984, Hewlett-Packard’s history of good relations with the country culminated in an agreement to establish China Hewlett-Packard, a jo ...

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award in the United States. President Ronald Reagan presented the medal to Dave in 1988. Reagan’s citation for Dave was as follows: “Accomplis ...

Dave and Lu Packard established the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in 1964 to help manage their philanthropic giving. After Dave died in 1996 (Lu predeceased him in 1987), he left the bulk of his ...

Hewlett-Packard’s Hong Kong subsidiary opened on May 1, 1979, following years of the company doing business in the area through local distributors. By the time this picture was taken in 1981, the Hong ...

The HP 9114 was a portable (floppy) disk drive designed as a companion to the company’s first laptop, the 110. Limitations in wireless technology and semiconductor memory in the mid-1980s made a porta ...

Hewlett-Packard often garnered lifelong loyalty from its employees, giving them the chance to grow and advance over the course of an entire career spent within the company. Few rose as high as Enrique ...

Since semiconductor memory was still in development to allow computers to retain instructions without a continuous power source, early calculators received their instructions through special magnetic ...

Shirley Hufstedler (center) lived a trailblazing life. Her accomplishments included serving as the only woman among 120 Superior Court judges in California, the first United States Secretary of Educat ...

Swedish King Carl XVI visited Hewlett-Packard’s facilities at Stanford Research Park on March 13, 1984.