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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 ...