In the article Fortune refers to Hewlett & Packard as "computer whizzes". Negatory. They were electronic (vacuum tube) whizzes who staked their entrepreneurial

In the article Fortune refers to Hewlett & Packard as "computer whizzes". Negatory. They were electronic (vacuum tube) whizzes who staked their entrepreneurialism to advanced instrumentation. Then world war broke out again and government contracts were very good to them. Later, solid-state electronics came along, and eventually computers and these were adopted early by HP simply because they were . . . well . . . electronic, and HP was a (non-consumer) electronic leader by then. Computers were definitely not their main thing when the company was still in possession of its true greatness.