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["Jerry W. Shepperd" <shepperd AT austincc.edu>]

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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Jerry W. Shepperd, Ph. D.
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