January-February 1986 HP 1000s Fire Up to Save Lives
- HP hires full-time Washington lobbyist to influence legislative decisions impacting company’s worldwide operations. 3 6
- HP 1000s power Oakland Fire Department’s computer-aided dispatching system. 8 10
- HP’s commitment to operations in Italy; HP presence since 1964, introduced first computer to Italy in 1970s; HP in top 200 companies in Italy. 11 14
- HP proposing three measures at annual meeting to thwart unsolicited takeover: 1) fair price for all stockholders, 2) eliminate action by written consent, 3) authorize additional stock. 15
- John Young discusses health of world’s trading system. 18
- HP map, new software for HP 3000, transforms columns of numbers into map. 19
- Naval Observatory in Miami keeps time for DoD with HP cesium clocks. 20
- Product Support Division, Customer Service Training, install bugs in computer systems and make customers dismantle equipment for customer hardware training. 21
- Microwave Semiconductor Division introduces HBCS-7000 slot-reader family and bar-code wand. 22
- Updated organizational chart. 23
March-April 1986 Where Do Ideas Come From?
- Discussion about creativity and how HP provides a creative environment; excerpts from book by Roger von Oech–tips to inspire creativity. 3 7
- Spectrum family of computers introduced based on RISC (reduced-instruction-set computer) architecture and innovative HP design; breakthrough development from HP Labs. 10 11
- McMinnville Division, Oregon, began in 1973; part of the medical group: defibrillators, electrocardiogram analyzers, cardiographs, ECG management systems, x-ray systems. 12 15
- John Young discusses 1986 management meeting. 16
- Duke of Kent visits HP Labs’ Bristol Research Center. 19
- Pie chart of who owns HP. 19
- HP 8494-7 and 33320-3 families of attenuators improved, warranty doubled and life rating increased by factor of 10. 21
- HP Touchscreen PCs, 7585 and 7550 plotters, LaserJet printers used in yacht race in Portsmouth, England. 22
- New products: HP 8770S arbitrary wave form synthesizer system; HP 4971S LAN protocol analyzer; HP 97503B disc drive; HP 8753A vector network analyzer; SP 2567B dot-matrix printer. 22
- HP portable computer used in Volvo road rally. 23
- HP Portable computer used at EPI Center in Palo Alto to analyze building structures to determine effects of earthquake; has been used to inspect 5,000 buildings. 20
May-June 1986 HP Makes an Oil-Out Effort
- HP helps oil companies increase productivity; HP-75C handheld computer has custom-designed chip with software that helps interpret test results; HP 3000s help automate business. 3 6
- Pictorial tour of HP recreational facilities. 11-14
- HP hiring and promoting minorities; affirmative action and equal employment opportunity regulations (diversity); HP pilot program in southwest to win more Hispanic and American Indian hires. 15 17
- John Young explains effort to improve software quality. 18
- HP ranked second place engineering students want to work. 19
- HP Germany receives award for practicing excellent partnership between company, management and employees’ award based on HP’s profit-sharing plan and HP way. 19
- HP 1000 computer used on Southern Pacific’s train simulator. 19
- HP Touchscreen II and Painter software used in tennis poster. 20
- Shareholder’s reject proposal to prohibit sale or lease of HP products to government of South Africa. 20
- Organization chart changes; restructured Design Systems Group’s Workstation Business Unit. 20
- HP commissions artist Charles Ginnever to erect statue outside new Mountain View facility. 21
- Measure magazine wins two Gold Quill awards from International Association of Business Communicators. 22
- HP accepted as participant in European Economic Community’s RACE program to develop integrated communications networks for use in Europe. 22
- New products: LaserJet 500 PLUS printer expanded paper handling capacity; HP-GKS graphics library; HP 1046A programmable fluorescence detector. 22
- HP ThinkJet printer used in Emporium-Capwell department stores. 23
- HP donated three microcomputers, two Braille processors and a Braille printer to University of Stuttgart. 23
July-August 1986 Radical Change?
- HP discusses changes in work force and placing emphasis on people and long-term solutions, not quick fixes; offering early retirement, voluntary severance incentive, retraining. 3 6
- GM plant in Highland Park uses HP 1000 Series A600s in its 21-mile assembly line. 8 11
- Discussion of need for a software development process; emphasis on training, standards, using metrics and tools. 12 15
- John Young discusses change and how it affects the HP way in terms of profit and commitment to our people. 18
- HP sponsors World Cup soccer championships in Mexico; supplied analytical equipment for drug testing; equipped press headquarters with resuscitation systems and cardiographs. 19
- Scientist for Wildlife Conservation International uses HP 110 portable computer to study macaws in Peru. 20
- HP Vectra workstation introduced in Taipei, Taiwan; operates in Japanese, Korean, Chinese by flip of a switch. 23
- HP exhibit at World’s Expo ’86 in Vancouver. 24
September-October 1986 Artificial Intelligence: It’s Relatively New at HP
- AI (artificial intelligence) hot topic driven by money—sales should grow 43 percent/year; HP started in AI in 1980 at HP Labs; focus on expert systems, natural language and programming productivity; HP product “Photolithography Advisor” troubleshoots problems in integrated circuit fab shop; HP software engineering program presenting AI courses for employees. 3 6
- Carnation Farm’s Feline Research Center uses HP 3000 to analyze eating habits of 500 cats. 7 9
- Handicapped workers assemble cable management kits for HP. 10-13
- U.S. Field Operations is automating sales force to give sales reps more time to spend with customers, improve reps’ knowledge of PCs and increase job satisfaction. 15 17
- John Young discusses highlights and significance of Design Automation Conference; what set HP apart was integration—linking—of applications. 18
- Rolling Meadows Center initiates “Seven/Eleven” campaign to cut turnaround time of units returned for service. 19
- HP 9816, 7580 and 9000 used in Australian miniseries about America’s Cup. 21
- HP Vectra PC awarded to Irish students winning HP Ireland Award for most innovative project. 21
- HP member of X/OPEN Group, international organization of major computer-system suppliers. 22
- New products include HP DraftPro plotter (HP 7570), Office Talk voice communication product for Vectra PC, HP 4947A transmission-impairment measuring set, HP 3235A switch/test unit. 22
- Don Hammond returns to Calif. from Bristol, England, to become acting director of HP Labs. 23
- HP provides IRS with 18,000 HP ThinkJet printers. 23
- U.S. Windpower in Livermore, Calif., uses HP 1000s and 3000s. 24
November-December 1986 HP in China: Technology for Tomorrow
- HP’s two offices in Beijing, China, consolidating; HP in China since 1981 100 percent owned by government, now 50-50 joint venture; HP practices need to be explained in a local context. 3 7
- HP grant to NPR (National Public Radio); HP says there is strong need to increase literacy in science, engineering and medicine and NPR’s science reports have proven effective. 8 10
- Stanford Park Division sales manager, Bill Moore, talks about competitiveness—new “get tough” stance. 13
- 30th anniversary of Hewlett-Packard’s corporate objectives; revisions and minor changes to reflect changes in business over the years. 14 17
- John Young reflects on importance of HP internationally to the bottom line. 18
- Bristol Research Center focuses almost entirely on software. 19
- HP 80240A fetal ultrasound frees patient to move in 300-feet distance of receiver. 22
- HP presence in Brazil. 22
- HP’s first endowed chair, HP Professor of Manufacturing Metrology at Brunel University in West London. 22
- “Miami Vice” TV show uses HP gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer in episode. 23
- HP Canada celebrates 25th anniversary. 23
- HP-71B handheld computer used by U.S. Forest Service to help firefighters predict fire danger. 24
