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In a message dated 10/26/2006 1:07:00 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
lurine AT softcom.net writes:

HP was  up at my end of the state and was the brainchild of two guys in Palo 
Alto,  Hewlett and Dave Packard.  He of Asst. Secretary of Defence fame or  
enfamcy <g>  They opened one of their printer plants in Santa  Rosa (I think 
they closed that plant).

No relation between Dave  Packard and Packard-Bell.



Nope, 
   no relation. I knew Bill Hewlett and was at a conference with  he and 
Steve Jobs many years ago. They were joking while we ate lunch over their  
first 
meeting. Jobs, a kid at the time, came to Mr. Hewlett with the plans for a  
PC 
computer, the original apple. Bill basically told him they had designs of  
their own for a PC, patted him on the head and told him he could stop by the  
parts room and go through the parts they didn't need.
 
Drew