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Bill and Dave chatting with Noel Porter and others in 1955.
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A Team Emerges at Stanford
Bill and Dave met for the first time at Stanford’s freshman football tryouts, but they became close as upperclassmen, through a mutual friend and future vice president at Hewlett-Packard, Noel “Ed” Po ...
Dave Packard and his fellow inductees to the Sports Illustrated All-America football squad.
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All-American: SI Football Squad
In 1958, Sports Illustrated named Dave Packard to its annual Silver Anniversary All-America football squad, which recognized star college players who went on to remarkable professional success in the ...
Photo of Barney Oliver, the first head of HP Labs taken in 1973.
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Barney Oliver: The Boss of HP Labs
The first head of HP Labs was Barney Oliver, who had joined Hewlett-Packard as head of R&D in 1952 and who Bill and Dave had known since their undergraduate days at Stanford. Oliver remained at the he ...
Headshot of Bill Hewlett circa 1939.
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Bill Hewlett Before Hewlett-Packard
Upon graduating from Stanford University in 1934 with his undergraduate degree in radio engineering, Bill pursued his master’s degree at MIT. After receiving it, he then returned to Stanford, where he ...
Dave Packard posing beside a car in 1936.
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Dave Packard Before Hewlett-Packard
After Bill and Dave graduated from Stanford University’s undergraduate program in radio engineering in 1934, Dave moved to New York state to take a job with General Electric. Bill and Dave knew they w ...
Dave Packard as a young man posing beside a car.
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Dave Packard: The Big Man on Campus
Dave Packard was an avid athlete. He played on his high school basketball and football teams, the Stanford University football team and even on a semi-pro basketball team while he worked for General E ...
Dave Packard as a young man posing beside a car.
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Fred Terman: Father of Silicon Valley
In the early 1930s, the talents of four Stanford undergraduates — Bill Hewlett, Dave Packard, Barney Oliver and Noel “Ed” Porter — caught the eye of legendary engineering professor Fred Terman. Terman ...
Front-facing photo of the HP 200A oscillator, Hewlett-Packard's first product.
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HP’s First Product: The 200A
The 200A oscillator used a design breakthrough Bill Hewlett had developed at Stanford to offer a greater level of accuracy than the best oscillators then available on the market for a fraction of the ...
Bill Hewlett posing in a chair as a child in 1915.
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Leader as a Lad: Bill Hewlett
William Redington Hewlett was born on May 20, 1913. He started out life in Ann Arbor, where his father taught medicine at the University of Michigan, but the family moved to California in 1916 when hi ...
Photo of Noel
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Noel “Ed” Porter: A Company Man
Noel “Ed” Porter exemplified the tight bonds that characterized Hewlett-Packard’s early years, playing a role in several of the company’s most important moments. A childhood friend of Bill Hewlett, it ...