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					"1982" - 8 Total Result(s)
				
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										A Meaningful Medal: HP’s Deming Prize									
									
										Yokogawa Hewlett-Packard was only the third Japanese company with American ties to win the Deming prize, an esteemed award for quality management.									
								
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										A Total Quality Tieclip									
									
										The Deming Prize medal, which Hewlett-Packard won in 1982, was one of the highest honors for Total Quality Management in the world, but it wasn’t easy to carry around. This Deming Prize tieclip allowe ...									
								
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										Hand Picked: HP 75C Handheld Computer									
									
										The HP 75C was the first product Hewlett-Packard designed and marketed as a full-blown handheld computer rather than a calculator. The 75C was programmable in BASIC, had a magnetic card reader and use ...									
								
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										Plotting: HP 7470A Pen Plotter									
									
										Hewlett-Packard’s 7470A graphics pen plotter from 1982 sought a practical solution to a prominent printing challenge. Plotters had previously held the paper still while a mechanical arm drew an image. ...									
								
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										Remembering A Game Changer: HP 35 Pin									
									
										By the time Hewlett-Packard issued this pin commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the HP 35, the device had transformed the company — and the tech industry.									
								
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										Sketched Out: Compaq Portable PC									
									
										Sometimes, big breakthroughs in technology can take place outside the office. Ted Papajohn designed the original Compaq Portable PC on a placemat from the House of Pies in Houston in 1982. This illust ...									
								
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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 ...									
								
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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  ...									
								 
				 
										 
										 
										 
										 
										 
										 
										