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["Wendy Gulliver" <crazygardens AT verizon.net>]

Now I'm confused.  Back in the 70's, when I was a young tech, I had some old 
Hewlett test equipment, I had some old Packard test equipment, and I had 
some Hewlett Packard test equipment.  I wonder if HP had made some stuff 
just under one name or perhaps neither of this old stuff I had was related. 
In the case of the later, I will retract anything good I ever said about HP, 
because I loved the old Hewlett stuff.

Wendy


> Wendy writes:
>
> > Which Mr. Packard was the
> Packard that started Packard electronics?  They made test equipment like
> signal generators and tracers, calibration equipment and the like?  This 
> was
> back in the day when Hewlett was a solo act and made some of the best
> electrometers, differential chart recorders and other precision equipment
> available.  I've used some of each.
> **************************************
>
> Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started HP shortly after finishing grad 
> school
> at Stanford. Their first product, an audio oscillator, was used by Disney 
> in
> making Fantasia. To the best of my knowlege, neither was a solo act.
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-packard)
>
> It is a shame that the computers and peripherals that bear the HP label 
> are
> not up to the same standards as their old instrumentation and calculator
> lines. I still have a 41C, which has served me well for many years. There
> is, indeed, no equal!
>
> Karen Black
> Blodgett, OR
>
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