HP: Me and my buddy can build anything electronic imaginable, relying largely on unfair advantages with vacuum tubes and slide rules. Limited only by what four

HP: Me and my buddy can build anything electronic imaginable, relying largely on unfair advantages with vacuum tubes and slide rules. Limited only by what four hands can do in our backyard garage. Let's pick a creation that could be popular, and set up to produce and sell copies. According to Mrs. Packard: "Well, it was very scary to be leaving General Electric, and to realize that we were on our own. Actually, he [David] came back to get his engineer's degree, so really we were thinking of ourselves as students for the first year." "During that year, he and Bill started Hewlett-Packard. At the end of his year's leave of absence was when he had to write a letter actually quitting General Electric. That was the most traumatic part of it all."