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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 10/25/2006, you wrote:
> Don, these guys were down in your neck of the woods.  Do you remember who
> was who down there?

I remember the company but not the particulars.

> No relation between Dave Packard and Packard-Bell.

None what so ever.  HP bought/merged with Compact who had previously bought 
DEC.  There are a few other companies in there but those are the better known.



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Any connection, however distant, between either of
these Packards and the Parckard auto?

--- DSanner106 AT aol.com wrote:

>  
> 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
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