In 1938, Bill Hewlett and David Packard built an audio oscillator in a garage behind a house. The sold some oscillators to Walt Disney who used them in the movie "Fantasia". That was the start of Hewlett-Packard which became a giant company based in Palo Alto before there was a Silicon Valley. When I was a young technician, I wanted nothing more than to work at HP. One of their salesmen taught me about ethical sales practices. The garage and house have been restored and here is a
photo essay. The captions are on the right side.
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