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  • From: "Jerry W. Shepperd" <shepperd AT austincc.edu>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org, <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] More on Hewlett-Packard
  • Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:07:05 -0500

Also, there is the old Packard Bell company, who made radios, and was active in the early days of computers in the US.

Jerry Shepperd

At 03:13 PM 10/26/2006, Wendy Gulliver wrote:
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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