Sony and HP started out with many products. > Of the many projects they worked on, their very first financially successful product was a precision audio oscill

Sony and HP started out with many products. > Of the many projects they worked on, their very first financially successful product was a precision audio oscillator, the Model HP200A. (emphasis added) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard#Founding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard#Founding (Wikipedia doesn't mention it for Sony) Doesn't mean it's "better" to start off this way, only that it's possible.