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Front of the HP 9121 3.5-inch floppy disk drive.
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The 3.5″ Floppy Disk: HP 9121
Hewlett-Packard’s 9121 drive was among the first devices in the United States to use 3.5″ floppy disk drives. It was also the first Hewlett-Packard product to use a new sort of slim, stackable form fa ...
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard standing beside the historic marker in front of 367 Addison Avenue.
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The Birthplace of Silicon Valley
On May 19, 1989, a historic marker was put in front 367 Addison Avenue. It recognized the site’s landmark status as “the birthplace of the world’s first high-technology region, ‘Silicon Valley.’” ...
Aaron Kennedy, Bess Stevens, Tony G. Coleman, Claude Robinson Jr. & Alice Morrison of the Black functional managers network.
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The Black Functional Managers Network
By the 1980s, the Black functional managers network that began in the previous decade had grown more sophisticated and, while still unofficial, was gaining recognition in company publications and beco ...
Photo of the Compaq Portable from 1983.
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The Compaq Portable: A Milestone in Mobility
The Compaq Portable was a milestone for both portable computing and personal computing; it was one of the first and most successful PCs to clone the IBM PC platform and was easily transportable, thoug ...
A man works with a stylus on the HP 520/9000 desktop computer.
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The Desktop Mainframe: The HP 9000
The HP 9000 Technical Desktop series was the beginning of a new level of involvement from Hewlett-Packard in the workstation and server markets. The first computer in the HP 9000 series, the 520/9000 ...
Close-up view of a chip package featuring Hewlett-Packard's reduced instruction set computing (RISC) architecture.
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The First RISC Chip
Hewlett-Packard’s first use of reduced instruction set computing (RISC) required the company’s biggest R&D project ever to that point. Codenamed Spectrum and released under the name Precision Architec ...
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard entering the garage on Addison Avenue in 1989.
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The Founders Return to Addison Avenue
A half-century after Hewlett-Packard was founded, Bill and Dave returned to the garage where their incredible journey began.
A small promotional toy that resembles the HP 150 touchscreen computer. The 150's screen is a digital clock.
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The HP 150 Touchscreen Computer
The HP 150 touchscreen computer caused a sensation when it was released in 1983, becoming the first Hewlett-Packard product to be advertised on television. This promotional tchotchke with a clock buil ...
Monitor for the HP 150 Desktop with infrared sensors visible along the right edge of the screen.
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The HP 150: The “Magic” Monitor & More ...
The monitor for the HP 150 desktop, codenamed “Magic,” contained one of the earliest uses of touchscreen technology. The device used infrared scanners to detect the position of the user’s finger on th ...
Photo of the HP 2225 ThinkJet printer with a clear plastic plaque describing the device.
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The HP 2225: Jetting into the Future
Printing changed forever with the first inkjet, the 2225 ThinkJet released in 1984. It was Hewlett-Packard’s first commercial desktop printer to use inkjet technology and the first to use the Hewlett- ...