Lucile Packard’s contributions to Hewlett-Packard Company are hard to overstate. When the young company was still struggling to establish itself, her income working in the Registrar’s Office at Stanfo ...

Hewlett-Packard played a significant role in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, providing equipment for drug testing at the games. HP’s JP gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer systems, along with ...

Hewlett-Packard’s e-beam system, developed by HP Labs, used electron beams to etch designs into silicon microchips more finely than light beam technologies.

During a visit to China by then-Hewlett-Packard CEO John Young in 1984, Hewlett-Packard’s history of good relations with the country culminated in an agreement to establish China Hewlett-Packard, a jo ...

Dave and Lu Packard established the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in 1964 to help manage their philanthropic giving. After Dave died in 1996 (Lu predeceased him in 1987), he left the bulk of his ...

The HP 9114 was a portable (floppy) disk drive designed as a companion to the company’s first laptop, the 110. Limitations in wireless technology and semiconductor memory in the mid-1980s made a porta ...

Swedish King Carl XVI visited Hewlett-Packard’s facilities at Stanford Research Park on March 13, 1984.

Hewlett-Packard’s reputation for cutting-edge technology and a unique company culture made it a subject of international fascination. Many foreign dignitaries opted to visit Hewlett-Packard facilities ...

In 1984, Hewlett-Packard entered into agreements with the American Tennis Professionals (ATP) and Women’s International Tennis Association (WITA) to provide them with HP equipment and customized softw ...

With an inkjet printer, characters were painted on paper by spraying the ink through very tiny holes in the printhead. To keep the printheads reliable and low maintenance, they were designed to be dis ...