HP Origins - Hewlett Packard Documentary

How Bill Hewlett and David Packard formed Hewlett Packard.
From a HP documentary DVD from 2006
#History #HP #SiliconValley

[@wayneparris3439]

Dave, THANKS! I love these type of videos. I have loved HP equipment since I can remember ever hearing of it and I am now retired with most of my test gear bearing the HP logo. GREAT equipment designed to last. I spent over 36 years with McDonnell Douglas and later Boeing, they TRIED to instill this ethic, the HP way, but the guys in the middle top just could not let go. When I was in tooling inspection, I was fortunate enough to have several supervisors who would assign the work at the start of the day then you did not see them again unless you needed something and went to them. They expected you to do the job and do it well. If you needed equipment they would do their best to get it to you. At the time of the plant closing in 2015, I had been the Boeing representative for years, serving the entire Southern California vendor network. If Boeing contracted work out to be done, it was me that went out to inspect the work at the vendor shops, I was free to say yes or no to accept the work as I saw fit that it met the requirements. Management backed me up every time good or bad. When an employee knows the "boss has his back" you can expect them to go above and beyond to get the job done in the best way possible. Good times, happy times. Management attitude makes ALL the difference!

[@donepearce]

I'm sure it was OK in the States, but their mains transformers were always short of inductance when it came to handling 50Hz mains, and you could rely on them dying at some point.

[@brendagermosen5331]

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[@Austyn-Kaleb]

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[@IMSAIGuy]

I worked at HP for 23 years. It was truly an honor.

[@IMSAIGuy]

@StellarClick don't go to HP now. the good stuff went to Keysight. Still OK place to work

[@bigtexbbq6347]

Same number of years for me. Early days new hires were able to meet Bill and Dave during onboarding, I was so proud to be a new hire right out of college.

[@martinstolle6124]

Being a German hp engineer for 29 years, leaving in peace I still admire the hp way. Thanks Bill, thank Dave

[@iuries]

"The purpose of the company is not the money" - this is powerful!

[@hannescamitz8575]

Didn't the founder of Bosch say something among the lines, "I would rather lose money than reputation."

[@yolandavasquez9990]

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[@user-zc8sd8jx8s]

yeah. it _was_ not the money.

[@gustavfenk4021]

The brown sauce was their best product.

[@hoofie2002]

That sound you hear is Hewlett and Packard spinning like tops in their graves over how their legacy and purpose was completely trashed by subsequent management. When companies bought their products the price was immaterial - just like IBM used to be. Apart from their test gear I bought some of their early laser printers - absolutely bomb proof kit.

[@oambrosia]

The problem is back then there was no competition for a lot of those products. Now days you're competing against Tek & Rohde so price definitely has to enter the equation. Not that either of them are "affordable" either but you definitely have choices in high-end test equipment.

[@JerryBiehler]

@@oambrosia Tek has been around since 1946. Tek also had a diverse portfolio of products just like HP and was very similar in nature. They encouraged employees to go and start companies to provide parts to Tek and others. R&S has been around since 1933. They have always been competitors. The issue with HP is they got some idiots in charge that just screwed everything up. And Tek got bought by danaher and the same thing happened.

[@oambrosia]

@@JerryBiehler Valid points. Tek were traditionally the scope people and HP were the RF people. R&S has been trying to penetrate the RF market and as such are very aggressive on pricing in recent years. Aside from price the products are really good.

[@markarca6360]

And the PC and the System x server lineup of IBM was sold to a Chinese company called Lenovo. Shame!!!

[@JerryBiehler]

Oliver Ambrosia A fiend actually picked up a really nice R&S spectrum analyzer at the Tek company store. Internally Tek uses whatever brand they needed to get the job done.

[@BigDaddy_MRI]

I met them both as a technician on board the USS America. In the avionics shop we used nothing but HP products and they worked as hard as we did, day-in and day-out. I was working on my BSEE at the time. It was mostly a PR sweep through the ship, and the Navy purchased a lot of their test equipment. A few days later I met John Fluke and his sales group trying to sell a very nice hand-held 4 digit DVM to the Navy. I got to use it for a few hours and then they came and collected it. It was pretty good, but needed one more digit. A year later, we had 5 digit Fluke meters all over the ship. It was truly interesting times. When I left the Navy, I finally got an HP-35. It’s in my desk drawer. It needs some new buttons and a good tear down and cleaning, but it still works. It did a lot of calculations for me over the years. Thank you for this film. Very well done.

[@PanduPoluan]

Awesome story! John Fluke sounds like another great engineer... and according to Wikipedia he was once a roommate of David Packard (yes, the "P" of H-P). The age of the Great Engineers seems to have passed... so sad...

[@Giblet535]

I was on the phone with a customer in the Atlanta support facility, felt a hand pat me on the shoulder, turned around and it was Dave Packard. I told the customer "Dave Packard says hi." They called this 'management by walking around'. Pre-Carly HP had the highest employee to manager ratio of any company I've worked for, and it was the most successful business model I've seen. HP isn't dead. It did change names. Agilent, Keysight, etc., all have the Bill & Dave Show to thank.

[@funnlivinit]

A little anecdote about HP. I wish that it were first hand but, it is from my brother. In 1975 I was a Sophomore in High School my brother was a freshman at UCLA, majoring in Physics. One day a HP rep. came to the lecture hall, I believe that it might have been Royce Hall, to demonstrate their newest calculator. I think it was the HP25. Well, the first time any of the students actually saw the calculator it was flying in through the door and across the room directly in front of the chalk boards. It had been thrown hard enough to hit the wall on the opposite side of the room. The rep. picked up the calculator, which was still on and unharmed, and used that same one for the entire demonstration. The calculator was demonstrated at the bottom of a bucket of water as well. He still has one and it still functions flawlessly. Sadly, I don't think that HP is still the great company that it was back then.

[@qurrotatechnology2073]

Yeah they lose the hp way

[@Tenneilly775]

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[@arthurroberts491]

Very nice history lesson. I worked at Hughes Aircraft and one year my little department of 50 people bought $10 million of HP equipment,which was one tenth of one percet of HP's annual business that year. The HP downfall came about when the founders retired and the bankers and lawyers took over.

[@jwalker277]

These guys really knew the value of their employees and we always gave our best. CEOs following them never understood the true value and how to make the world a better place.

[@dell177]

I'm 73 and I've been buying HP products for over 50 years. I remember the owner of the company buying the HP35 for $400, I bought mine when the price got down to $300. The battery died but I still have that calculator and it still works. I dealt with the Boston Hp office for test equipment and always got superb service, it made no difference if it was a schematic for 20 year old HP test gear or a brand new oscilloscope. They were the best company I ever dealt with.

[@PanduPoluan]

Thank you for this amazing video, Dave! I remember a story about Bill ... it was said that one day, on a Saturday, he came to the H-P Labs and saw the door being padlocked. He went back to his car, grabbed the largest bolt cutter he brought, gathered the Building Security around, and cut that padlock. Then he said, "This door must remain open at all time so our engineers can come in at any time if they want to experiment." H-P was an amazing company. What existed now is a sad shell, a mere echo of what it once was...

[@v8pilot]

I remember being told that story and it was the component store that was padlocked. He wanted some resistors or something on a Sunday. He cut the padlock took the resistors he wanted and left a note "This door must not be locked. Bill Hewlett". The Bill and Dave view was that if engineers were building some electronics in their spare time, the company benefited from their increased experience and their new ideas.

[@mikemike7001]

Thanks, Dave. AFAIK, this was available only on DVD. The HP website once had a form that let you request a copy, which I did, but they never acknowledged my request, and I never received a DVD. This may have been when the Wicked Witch was CEO. It used to be pretty darn cool to get your hardcover HP Test & Measurement Catalog in the mail every year and marvel at the enormous range of products they produced. And one could learn a lot from the HP Journal. It's been sad to see mighty HP broken up and sold off in pieces. Now HP's just a brand of mediocre PCs and printers that don't last and use expensive ink.

[@russbellew6378]

Yup. I share those fond memories of the HP Journal and the HP catalog. Their test equipment was superb. Though I haven't used it in decades, I still remember classic HP test equipment model numbers: 5245A, 606, 608...

[@blave549]

The HP Journal was my gateway drug into the company. The study room in the EE building at WSU had a stack of them back in 1980-ish, and I would read them instead of doing the studying that I was supposed to be doing. Right then and there, one of my bucket list items became to get published in the Journal. Which, I am happy to report, I was able to do! Chalk that as "done". That's a "never forget" memory.

[@rob1248996]

Everyone knows who the "Wicked Witch" is that you're refering to.

[@ibensubber3826]

Had the privilege of working there for more than 30 years ❤

[@X-OR_]

The HP 606b signal generator was the best engineered instrument I ever worked with.

[@jethrobo3581]

We still use the HP-4145 (~38 years old) and hp-4156 (~30 years old) semiconductor parameter analyzers on a daily basis -- i.e. they are both still working great!

[@leesully1669]

Thank you Dave for posting this. HP equipment used to be top notch, and would last forever. Unfortunately in our "now", our planned obsolescence society, companies live and die by their product only lasting 2 or 3 years. We have HP laser printers pushing 20 years, that are still running. Laptops that are pushing 13 years old. Why? Because we're a school district and we don't have all the money in the world to replace them every 3 years. HP was a brand of quality.

[@haddadthemaestro2856]

Yeah, especially Apple-who is the "king of planned obsolescence". Please consider Lenovo's ThinkPad line of personal laptops. They too are long lasting too, but the older ones prior to 2012 are more classic than modern ones.

[@Randrew]

My brother has been with HP (now at HPE) since 1984. Seems like he was there to see the beginning of the end, from what he's shared over the years. He did speak of "The HP Way" early on and yes, he was entrusted to important products and projects right away. "Change" in his era has progressively gotten worse and morphed into one of the worst examples of "business for the the sake of the shareholder", perverting the company's purpose to it without actually delivering on it. Some 25 years ago they closed the regional sales office he worked from, but since his work had shifted to both remote and on-site customer support, he switched to working from home. Recent legend has it a certain previous CEO stepped into a facility in California to see empty cubes and made an edict that *everybody* had to show up in an HP office during every week. Hard for my brother because the nearest office is about 110 miles and that office is/was for medical stuff and he only had (HIPPA related) clearance to connect to the guest Wi-Fi. But he did do that commute twice a week until the most recent HP / HPE split.

[@EdsynProducts]

Wow! What a refreshing documentary! Bill and Dave were certainly incredible innovators and leaders of the human spirit. It brought back some memories of the kinds of people I grew up with. There is an old saying I heard a lot growing up, “we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” My Dad and Mom fought hard to build a business centered around this type of philosophy. We still use the upside down organization chart. Management sits at the bottom to support those who help build the business sitting at the top, the employees. Thanks for sharing and highlighting this story; truly words to live by.

[@faithinverity8523]

I bought a used HP Elitebook. Its design and build-quality are superb. And it works flawlessly. That, in essence, is what HP does.

[@welderfixer]

Am I the only who thinks that there will never be another business like the old HP that will build equipment with such quality, reliability and ease of repair. Today: brake it - toss it.

[@noferblatz]

At some point, HP morphed into a regular ocmpany, probably after the founders moved on. This often happens. Some vestiges of the original values remain, but the founders must constantly infuse the company with these values to keep it that way.

[@spwicks1980]

I guess a lot of things changed. The formation of Agilent probably took a lot of the innovators. HP dont build much more than mediocre PC's and half decent printers these days but the HP DNA got passed onto Agilent and then Keysight. Agilent arent that much better these days though.

[@oambrosia]

@@spwicks1980 that's why Agilent = medical and Keysight = Test & Measurement. Guess they want to separate themselves from the now soiled HP name :P

[@rok1475]

Milton Friedman introduced the theory in a 1970 essay for The New York Times titled "A Friedman Doctrine: The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits". In it, he argued that a company has no social responsibility to the public or society; its only responsibility is to its shareholders. People that took over HP ( and most American companies) follow this doctrine. Profits is all that matters.

[@Plm322]

Oliver Ambrosia Agilent sold the medical divisions to Philips within a year of being spun off from HP in 2000.

[@rob1248996]

I had come home from active duty in the Navy in 1972 and saw an ad in a magazine for the HP35. I scraped up every penny I could get my hands on and drove to the HP office outside Atllanta and gave it to them ($395.00) to order one. I never looked back. It taught me alot of math just by playing with it. Thank Bill & Dave.

[@jeanniehobbs1433]

Proud to still be working at HP(E) since 1984. At one time, a few years after I started, I was in charge of the inventory of what we called "school stock," meaning old-but-still-working equipment that was intended for donations to various colleges. Unfortunately I was too young at the time to recognize the full import of what I was handling, although I did feel that little twinge of pride when those boxes of oscillators and voltmeters and spectrum analyzers went out the door. :)

[@TomWuck]

Worked for „Bill and Dave“ for 7+10 years and looking back, it was really an amazing time. Clearly a role model. Thanks for everything. Thomas

[@Herby-1620]

I was an employee there in the 2012-2014 timeframe, but I point out that Bill's son (Walter) was in the same Cub Scout pack as my older brother. It is a small world.

[@mosfet500]

Dave, thanks! I remember the 35, I even have the reissue. My favorite around the time was the HP 11 which I bought in 1985 and spent lots of hours programming. I started with a slide rule in college but when the HP calculators came out it changed the world- literally! I have lots of Agilent and Keysight instruments today but those first freq counters and generators were something special.

[@machintelligence]

A small footnote about H-P calculators. The most successful was the HP 12C financial calculator. Introduced in 1980 it is still in production today and has become a standard of the Real Estate industry. I bought one in the 1980's and still use it to this day. RPN logic ... it has no equals.

[@makerspace533]

I started at Texas Instruments in 1973. It was the calculator department in the Semiconductor Division. Every department acted as if it was it's own small company. The model was perfect, innovation was more important than rank, much like HP's. When Bucy took over, everything changed. It wasn't the employee's company any more, it was the upper management's company. Too bad. BTW, TI was often referred to as Training Institute, because of all the start-up that sprung up. I guess the same thing happened at HP, it just took a little longer.

[@flecom5309]

sad that such a great company is basically now a smouldering crater... hopefully the good people escaped to keysight

[@TheFrenchMansControl]

I really wish their laptops held up to the values portrayed in this video. Overheating GPU de-soldering itself and then being told it was my problem really burned a bridge for me.

[@oambrosia]

It is sad their name was removed from the products that define their legacy. Sticking their name on PCs kinda cheapens it I think.

[@schwinn434]

I had the same problem of overheating with a $1200 laptop; over and over I was told, by phone, from India, that nothing was wrong with this laptop; finally, a class action lawsuit got me a $200 replacement laptop from HP, which also broke down very quickly. I won't even by something used with HP on it, now - very sad

[@JurassicJungle]

It was so great to work for HP/HPE for almost 25 years and on HP test equipment at the start of my career. I am so proud of that. There were bumps in the road for the company during my time but mostly amazing. I hope they can become great again.

[@terry6131]

It never ceases to amaze me how much HP stuff was made. Between this and Curious Marc, I see some really exotic HP equipment.

[@156dave]

Fluke for DMM’s ,Tektronix for Scopes ,HP for everything else

[@PyroRob69]

"Medal of Defiance" Awesome!

[@TheDrunkenMug]

Haha, yeah. How about that, I doubt any modern boss would be so forgiving and forthcomming 🙄😯

[@PyroRob69]

@@TheDrunkenMug If they still gave them out, I could wall paper my home office with them. Quality vs quantity.

[@pqjim]

Thank you for sharing this. The HP Way does live on, it is just that the name of that core is now Keysight. Since the Agilent spin off which begat Keysight, "HP" is just a name. The same HP Loveland Division, Colorado Springs Division, Santa Rosa Division and other HP instrument divisions are still there and many of the same people are working at those sites. They just have the Keysight name on them now. I have been fortunate to spend my entire post college career with HP then Agilent, and Keysight since getting hired at HP in 1978. There are many many employees like me who have been there since the HP days. Which is another indication of the continuation of the HP Way -- employees are treated with respect and valued for their contributions no matter their age. It seems like we all have a "Bill and Dave" story that we share.

[@156dave]

Is the key sight equipment still made in USA I was in Taiwan a few years ago and saw HP spectrum analyser being manufactured there

[@pqjim]

@@156dave Sorry, you may be mistaken or your information is out of date. We manufacture in the US for small pilot runs or for some high end instruments. Mostly we use Malaysia. Some of our lower cost instruments are made in Chengdu China. And for TAA compliance we assemble some products in Singapore. It is possible some are made in Finland (Anite products) or Italy (Prisma products). You can tell country of origin by looking at the letters that form the prefix of the serial number. For example, "MY" for Malaysia.

[@solotron7390]

Superb video on the original silicon valley garage startup! The best resource for any company is a motivated workforce. What a great way to build a company! Nice to see you, Woz.

[@HomoSapiensMember]

pretty much why my first scope was the 1740A; they understand the purpose of entrepreneurship which identifies with my family traditions very well - so it made sense to support this idea. Note: the unit purchased is old, not new - HP of today is not HP from back then.

[@jethrobo3581]

Thanks Dave for the link to this story. Ah memories... Back in the 70's, we rigorously tested HP calculators in all kinds of environments to try to understand the engineering endurance and excellence. Absolutely superb products. Always loved the HP 9835 and 9845. Also, still love Keysight products - they had two fantastic exhibitions at the 2020 CES --- hope to see them again at CES in 2022...

[@isleifoterogarcia4478]

If one company change my conception of computers, was HP. The calculators and mini computers made a lasting impression in my whole life, excellence, attention to detail and sense of purpose. I was an HP3000 operator during the mid 1980s and 1990s. Those times let me, a self thought person to live the personal computer revolution. Thank you for everything Bill and Dave!

[@hwervenbos9712]

What a wonderfull video of HP. It was my desire to work for HP as a T&M sales engineer in the good old days of the company. It formed me to the person I became to start my own company as a specialized reseller for datacom test equipment. A big thank you to Bill & Dave..

[@hollybrereton3140]

thank you so much for sharing this.

[@platinumphonesandcomputers]

Am a Laptop repair self taught Technician, and I would tell you hp laptops a more fixable than the rest am even watching this video on a 2012 hp EliteBook 840 G1 that I fixed from the dead and works extremely perfect, Thank you Dev and Bill, RIP

[@leoakirakblo]

Dave, just THANKS!!

[@Starphot]

Thanks for sharing! I was on the USS JFK and on the home base of my squadron from 1972-1975. We had a myriad of brand name test equipment. The HP were the newer types as most of the other equipment still had vacuum tubes in it. My oscilloscope is a 1968 era 1710A I repaired then bought it from my company. It is still being used. Message sent from an HP computer.

[@Petertronic]

FYI Packard Bell is not related to HP. That was a different Packard.

[@pqrstzxerty1296]

Very Correct.

[@FrozenHaxor]

And acer owns his ass now anyway.

[@denamaharani6479]

when i was little i thought PB is a part of HP because Packard name

[@brianangel8201]

Thank you Dave for the history lesson. do more videos along this line of info.

[@supadupahilton6848]

I put off buying HP for years due to my Horrific experinces with poor quality and reneiged warranty coverage, etc. under Nazis Carley Fiorona and Meg Whitman. Putting those two at the helm was a dire mistake. Going to Best Buy in a few hours to drop 2k on one of HPs new all in one's. Something I NEVER would have done 10 -15 years ago. Glad the old HP is back!!

[@hoofie2002]

HP Calculator : "marketing says don't do it"😆

[@DavePoo]

Yeah, i think this comes down to market research sometimes being worthless. If you asked someone in 1850 how you could improve their transport, they would tell you they wanted a faster horse. At the time when poeple used slide rules, nobody was asking for a calculator as it would be too alien a concept to even dream about. But if you put one in their hands and show them what it could do, they would change their mind in seconds.

[@Drew-Dastardly]

@@DavePoo And that's even with Reverse Polish Hungarian Austrian notation too!

[@MdAsif-ue7ru]

How two legends are making a world together.

[@amaroninspecting]

Worked at Hp for 14 years, they taught us the Hp way. Now we have a Start up that started in a Garage! If we are heard in the future, you will hear about the Hp way again!

[@J.B24]

Sounds like HP was the place to work if you were an electrical engineer back in the day.

[@Samuel-ge7im]

Thanks for the video Dave.

[@bricolomaniafr]

Thanks for sharing this with us ! Even as a HP "fanboy" I had no idea that this kind of video existed.

[@quicksilver462]

Still using my HP PAV. slimline from 2011, win 7, 1T HD, 8GB ram, its on 24/7/365!! It is not a gaming comp. but does what I need, only problem was a failed power supply 4 years in, since then it has worked rock solid with good AV protection!!!

[@markarca6360]

As far as I know, HP manufactures patient monitors before. Then they transferred this to Agilent Technologies, and then the entire product line was finally sold to Philips.

[@JasonAdank]

I worked at HP for a few years in the late 90s / early 00's. There was still a distant echo of The HP Way, but the corruption of incompetence was already there at that point. The fact that it has crumbled to the point of irrelevance is a sad thing.

[@Giblet535]

Then, all of a sudden, Carly. She ruined it all. She turned the best company in the US into crap. It took her only two years to wreck everything Dave and Bill built.

[@AQuietNight]

The world had changed.

[@RememberingMaryEvely]

36 years with HP and its successors. I can hardly believe my good fortune to have been hired in '73.

[@richfiles]

I got this on DVD... Somehow ended up with 2 copies sent to me. Always appreciated HP's early days. HP of yesteryear was the stuff of legend

[@davewright3088]

I remember in the very early days of MBARI, when Dave was still with us, he would drop in around the holidays. He would wander into your meeting, pass out dried apricots from his ranch, and say thanks for the work you do. And then he was gone...

[@briankolner9986]

I was fortunate to be given a Packard Foundation Fellowship as a new professor at UCLA. Our annual meetings were at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. One year (1992,3?) we made a trip up the coast to MBARI to see the new building and have a reception (the paint was so fresh you could smell it). Dave was very proud and we got great tours and met fascinating people. The MBA and MBARI are true gems and exemplify the vision of Dave Packard.

[@Choralone422]

Thank you for sharing this. The HP of today is quite a bit different than it was even back in 2005 when this video was created. They really seemed to have lost their way. That being said I am typing this on a nearly 8 year old HP Envy PC so it's not like they release junk, but they sure seemed to have lost their trailblazing ways of decades past!

[@mwethereld]

Really enjoyed this

[@TheDefpom]

Very interesting, thanks Dave.

[@jacquilougido9285]

hp way is an exemplary way. Great job. 💕

[@blueballsbkueballs]

I joined HP 6 month ago as a contractor in sales, everyday I ask myself, what went wrong. The most process oriented enterprise in the world and exactly opposite of client centric. It takes hell of a beating to make sale.

[@kryhard]

People who work on other companies that has a "Sales Departement" will say the same thing about it.. It is what it is, your occupation as a Salesman is to sell by the mark...

[@niallflynn1833]

Amazing how their philosophy has changed since then, thanks Dave

[@ptronix]

One of my favourites was the hp 141t spectrum analyzer , designed in the early 70's I think, it would still give good results today. I think the original price would have bought you a small house in the UK! Of course things have moved on & I now use a Siglent, a hell of a lot lighter! The hp weighed around 85 pounds with the plug ins

[@peterschmidt9942]

Thanks for the doco Dave. Their test gear was always top notch. It's a shame that all their gear (like computers and printers) and pretty much your average garbage and really shouldn't even have a HP badge on it. I know when I was working for Alcatel in the 90's, the R&D departments pretty much had the same philosophy in that management would assign tasks and you didn't see them unless you had a problem and expected you'd do your job. It's really a lost art these days in companies which is a shame. It taught you to take ownership of your projects.

[@typxxilps]

Welcome slowness of being. You could identify the HP and BOSCH students among all other students from ibm, Porsche, Daimler. They were different in behaviour even though not incompetitive. The HP guys were different. The products back then were made to live long and then the HP ink started to limit the life - that's when I stopped buying their products. And still I don't trust them if their products needs supplies - lesson for life.

[@circuitblog01]

Thanks for posting very nice 🌷🌷🌷

[@MrKrabat95]

HP is great. As long we're not talking about printers

[@HarrisFS]

My Dad worked at HP back in the day before I was born. Theres a picture on my wall of my mom and dad at an HP company picnic

[@MrPhilip796]

Absolutely phenomenal If you have any more of these documentaries, then please do share :)

[@paulschroeter8051]

I don't know if there are any more documentaries, but you might be interested in the HP Museum site: www.hpmuseum.net/

[@jaimecosta2966]

I remember back in the 80 when I goined a British company and there was a maxi e HP desk computer in the middle of the toom now one was using and at the time interested in computers got together with a technical and gave him my ideas in building a software for stock control and installing it on the HP.. It was amazing seeing that computer working... Brilhante equipment and from the video brilliant company... Wish HP well in its project and the familys of the people that made the company

[@AngelDarthNet]

HP since 1939 to 2000 : love love Hp (hp inc -hpe) since 2000-2020 : sad - bad

[@11busyboy]

Thanks Dave for sharing this powerful video! Todays companies it is all about money. I think today's companies should watch this video and learn from it.

[@richfiles]

Bummer on the no captions at 15:15, where there is the short Japanese segment. Guessing the DVD required them be turned on manually?

[@RCPhotosVideos]

Sadly the company is no longer what Bill and David wanted. I live near the HP in Boise Idaho and its been non stop layoffs and building closers for years now.

[@thomasw6169]

In the early old days innovation wasn't easy too, but today is really hard to stand out. With global competition something like hp is hard to imagine nowadays. And don't tell me the principles mentioned about empowering the employees are the same today. Price pressure is killing the morale everywhere.

[@oambrosia]

On the high end if you build a great product it will sell with decent profit margins.

[@twobob]

The CHP and YHP was fun to see. Thanks, enjoyed this.

[@AnvilDragon]

Starting with the Class A amplifier, but even earlier with their studies at Stanford. A similar tale with the Varian brothers with the magnatron started at Stanford. I always wanted to know the names of the teachers at Stanford who inspired these students.

[@MrVettelover]

This company is no longer anything that this documentary showed it was

[@ralphbenthall3573]

What FINE test equipment this company made!This is their roots not printers!

[@goodun2974]

"There's a story of 2 people in a garage on acid...." well anyway, that's how I heard this narration the 1st time around! 😁

[@k7iq]

MAN ! This is So CooL !!!!

[@AissaAzzaz]

This is awesome

[@FMeister94]

Love my hp pc.

[@thegame4027]

My brother worked at HP and it's nothing like this anymore. More exactly the opposit.

[@souta95]

HP, like many giant corporations have lost sight of what made them great and now only focus on profits. It was shortly after this video was made that HP seemed to start their significant downward spiral when it came to product quality. Certainly not the worst offender out there by any means, but clearly not the difference maker they once were.

[@dhpbear2]

And it all got 'Countsed' by Carly Fiorina :(

[@damian9181]

gracias por compartir este vídeo, saludos desde argentina

[@jameskeating4719]

Clear eyes bright hearts

[@InssiAjaton]

I had to wait from April to July for my HP 35.

[@johnfinn1570]

You have to be laughed at to succeed these days otherwise you are just like everyone else. As a retired civil aviation tech, everything was HP and nothing but HP, so help me god. Lol Aviation tech used Rockwell Collins gear so HP was perfect for the servicing side. Circa 1972 to 1982 @ Essendon Airport

[@SnoopyDoofie]

A company that now makes expensive printer cartridges and pretty much nothing else.

[@danielson9579]

Hp rocks.

[@antigen4]

smells like a promotion piece

[@virtualtools_3021]

Still use an HP Compaq Presario 2190US to this day!

[@dark698701]

Love HP best US company with Apple 🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️

[@alansmith4734]

R.I.P. Pocket Protectors

[@Drew-Dastardly]

I never did have a pocket 'tector when I wore my short sleeve formal shirt and tie in the office. Because my Psion 5, HP35, Rotring pencils and other engineerd gear slipped in my cargo pants easily.

[@chef1arjunaidi]

It is now 2020, sadly HP has only a few calculator models on sale. It is only a matter of time before the HP calculator range disappears