Very well written and makes me realize what a pioneer company HP was at that time. It was the Apple of its time. Best anecdote: > Stanford Engineering Dean Fre

Very well written and makes me realize what a pioneer company HP was at that time. It was the Apple of its time. Best anecdote: > Stanford Engineering Dean Fred Terman, the person responsible for bringing Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard together to start HP was one of the first. He was overwhelmed, looking for an umbilical cord connected to a big computer doing the precision calculations.