The Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute were two of Dave’s favorite philanthropic projects. Founded with the support the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Dave an ...

During the company’s first year of operations, Bill and Dave’s former classmate Noel “Ed” Porter worked for a local air conditioning company and farmed out work to the young Hewlett-Packard Company de ...

Hewlett-Packard began issuing profit-sharing bonuses in its second year of operation. Bill and Dave handed out the checks personally well into the 1950s.

Ahead of Hewlett-Packard’s 50th anniversary, the company’s early leaders reflected on HP’s past in an exclusive interview. Hear more from Bill, Dave, Lucile Packard and Norm Neely.

Dave Packard bought a bulldozer and personally helped clear more than 20 miles of road for the San Felipe Ranch, a functioning cattle ranch he and Bill purchased and ran together. At the time, Dave wa ...

In the mid-1950s, Bill and Dave bought their first ranch together, at San Felipe. It was an active cattle ranch that both men loved to work, as well as to use to host visitors and employees. They woul ...

Dave Packard showed off his athletic skills as a teenager while playing for the Centennial High School basketball team in Pueblo, Colorado. He also excelled at football. In an interview in 1995, Packa ...

Building on the success of the revolutionary 8020A, by 1975 Hewlett-Packard had introduced an updated, noninvasive fetal heart monitor, the 8030A. The new device offered medical professionals four dif ...

Hewlett-Packard stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on March 17, 1961, just four years after its 1957 initial public offering.

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.’” ...