Startups were thriving in Los Angeles when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were closer to the nursery than they were the garage.
Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.
I think my dad did legal work for someone who had a Packard Bell 8088, and they couldn't pay him, so they gave him a computer. I was initially not allowed to touch it, but that didn't last long. I started tinkering with it, and there were many times I screwed up the computer.
Mason Weaver: Have you met Colonel Packard yet?
James Conrad: Yeah.
Mason Weaver: The guy's wound pretty tight.
James Conrad: Well, he's a decorated war hero. That's the package they come in.
Catherine Packard Martell: Didn't he want to talk to me?
Pete Martell: Yeah, but we told him you were on your world tour, he should contact your press agent.
