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Memoirs of Hewlett Packard People

One of our main objectives in starting this website five
years ago was (and still is today) to get in touch with people
who have worked at HP from the birth of the company up to
today. We are interested in hearing your memories no matter
what division or country you worked in, or whether you were in
engineering, marketing, finance, administration, or worked in
a factory. This is because all of you have contributed to the
story of this unique and successful enterprise.

Your memories are a treasure for this website. While product and technology are our main concern, other writings related to the company life are highly welcome, as far as they stay inside the HP Way guidelines.

The contributions made by Edward H. Phillips, Jim Hall, George Stanley, Bob DeVries, Ray Smelek, Dave Cochran, John Minck, and Chuck House during their career at HP are illustrated in this chapter. They are good examples of the type of memories we would like to present on this website.

Anybody Else ? Please get in touch using the Contact US form.

And if you need more inspiration about the work culture at HP, please start by reading the "Inside HP" Narrative written by John Minck. It is THE reference reading for anyone who wants to tell others why Hewlett Packard was such a special place.


 

Feb-01-2012

"Logic State Analyzer Birthing Pains," by Chuck House

Chuck House - This is a story about engineering politics, written by the accomplished author of "HP Phenomenon." During the 1970s & 80s the Data Domain (he coined the term) was in ferment, with a maddening variety of IC and firmware technologies. The Birthing of Logic Analyzers plays out over a cast of fascinating personalities; of Chuck's management, his design customers, his technical mentor gurus, and his engineering team.

 

Nov-11-2011

INSIDE HP: A NARRATIVE HISTORY OF HEWLETT-PACKARD
FROM 1939–1990, by John Minck

John Minck - Take a work culture trip through the Golden Age of high tech, from the 1930s to 1990, inside the Hewlett-Packard company, looking at organization, legendary people, and significant products.

 

Aug-30-2011

"A Quarter Century at HP ," by David S. Cochran

Dave Cochran - Start with an electrical engineer designing test instruments, convert him to a specialist in computation processes of the first desktop scientific computer, and finish with the blockbuster HP-35 handheld.

 

Aug-10-2011

"Making My Own Luck," by Ray Smelek

Ray Smelek - Management perspectives on leadership of several HP division organizations, opening new HP operations in foreign nations, and direct personal advice on growing a successful leader.

 

Jul-25-2011

Some Memories of a Hewlett Packard Product Designer,
by Bob DeVries

Bob DeVries - The high-tech world of HP, from the perspective of an inventive Product Designer and the dozens of oscilloscopes, tape recorders and microwave products he participated in developing.

 

Jun-30-2011

My HP Life and Beyond, by George Stanley

George Stanley - The absolute crucial role of Customer and Field Engineer Training to high-tech, a best-seller book, "Transistor Basics," and cheerleading the industry for HP Interface Bus and programmable systems.

 

Jun-02-2011

HP LaserJet - The Early History, by Jim Hall

Jim Hall - The "Father" of the HP Laserjet printers, arguably one of the world's most important publishing product lines, tells the inside story of how HP's inventive teams brought it all to a waiting world.

 

May-15-2011

My Time with hp, by Edward H. Phillips (1956 to 1966)

Ed Phillips - The professional HP career of a creative mechanical engineer, years of designing microwave products, and how to overcome a continuing string of difficult design issues.

 


 

 

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