[SADXA] {Collins} A note to Collins museum- Tubbs fire consumed archives of Hewlett & Packard

[Theodore DOWNING]

This is so sad. I had visited David Packard’s home several times while attending Stanford. I had seen some of the papers and early test equipment at his home in Los Altos. 

A legend who served his employees and country well.

Ted w7key
> On Oct 29, 2017, at 4:52 PM, Richard Solomon <dickw1ksz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Another example of how big business
> bows to the almighty dollar.
> 
> Very sad, a great loss.
> 
> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
> 
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ed Sharpe via Collins <collins at listserve.com>
> Date: Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 3:05 PM
> Subject: {Collins} A note to Collins museum- Tubbs fire consumed archives
> of Hewlett & Packard
> To: collins at listserve.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The  Tubbs fire consumed the collected archives of William Hewlett and
> David Packard,  the tech pioneers who in 1938 formed an electronics company
> in a
> Palo Alto  garage with $538 in cash.
> More  than 100 boxes of the two men’s writings, correspondence, speeches
> and other  items were contained in one of two modular buildings that burned
> to
> the ground  at the Fountaingrove headquarters of Keysight Technologies.
> Keysight, the  world’s largest electronics measurement company, traces its
> roots to HP and  acquired the archives in 2014 when its business was split
> from
> Agilent  Technologies — itself an HP spinoff.
> 
> http://bit.ly/2yd6Z2G
> (My added note)   And.... this is  why I continue to stress  multiple
> caches of  copies/scans of historical material... and sad... as in this
> case
> here is  someone that  could have footed the bill and not missed the  money
> to
> do it.
> Ed#  Archivist  for SMECC
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