January-February 1991 Targeting the Future: HP Labs’ 25th Year
- HP Labs celebrates 25th anniversary and mission of long-range technological exploration and development in collaboration with product organizations; new products account for most of HP sales. 3-9
- HP’s Advanced Manufacturing Systems Operation (AMSO) develops “electronic toolbox” -– the Service Bay Diagnostic System (SBDS)– for Ford. 10-14
- Holdings of HP archives are described. 15-18
- Technology Center of Silicon Valley houses history and technology of Silicon Valley. 19-21
- Jim Hanley of HP Asia Pacific workstation group collects carvings from New Guinea. 23-24
- HP’s views on changing and adapting; five “C’s” of change-adept professionals: confidence, challenge, coping, counterbalance, creativity. 25-26
- John Young discusses progress of reorganization plan. 27-28
- HP awards of 1990 listed. 30
- Year-end net revenue up 6 percent, net earnings down 18. 30
- HP Labs engineer and 15 other women set Guiness record for biggest sky diving stack of women. 32
March-April 1991 HP Flexes its Training Muscle
- HP revamps and consolidates its training programs. 2-7
- Lew Platt, manager of the new computer Systems Organization discusses CSO goals; long-term goals focus on open systems, client/server environment; short-term goals to improve profitability, eliminate redundancy. 8-12
- HP’s NewWave office used by Britain’s Prince Edward at the Theatre Division Ltd. 13
- HP computers and peripherals used at Australia’s Argyle Diamond Mines. 14-17
- HP South Queensferry, Scotland, celebrates 25th anniversary. 18-21
- HP’s Donna Yeager named Disabled Person of the Year; other disabled employees featured. (diversity) 22-25
- John Young discusses commitment to R&D, time to market, break even time (BET). 27-28
- Information systems ROUTS, COMSYS replaced by BatchNet. 29
- Canadian Airlines International (CAIL) purchases 81 HP Vectras for computer-based training. 29
- HP Malaysia team honored for reducing defects in optoelectroinic lamps. 30
- Executive Committee created in 1974, HP’s primary policy-setting body, eliminated. 30
- New products include five business computer systems and servers. 31
- Vectras used in Helsinki, Finland, for analyzing the genetic traits of dairy cows. 32
May-June 1991 What Scares Sun, DEC and IBM?
- “Snakes” program is HP’s Apollo 9000 Series 700 workstation family to compete with other RISC workstation manufacturers. 3-8
- Dick Hackborn, executive vice president of Computer Products Organization, with HP 31 years and led laserjet printer business to top of market. 9-13
- HP employee, Claudia Davis, adopts Romanian child. 14-18
- YHP is key business partner of ORIX Rentec, Tokyo, largest equipment rental company in world. 21-23
- HP instrument steers Nissan racing cars. 24-26
- Dean Morton, chief operating officer, discusses progress of Quality Maturity System (QMS). 27-28
- Soldier uses HP-41C in Desert Storm. 29
- HP credit union sends Valentines to soldiers in Persian Gulf. 29
- Michael McGuire, MTS, HP Lab’s Printing Technology department book “An Eye For Fractals.” 29
- HP gives grants to UCLA for IC lab and computing resource center to Oregon State Univ. 30
- MPG, Medical Products Group, Andover and Waltham Mass., celebrate Black History Month. (diversity) 31
- Cultural and ethnic diversity celebration at HP San Jose, Calif. 32
July-August 1991 Brainstorming in Corvallis
- Open systems cooperative computing, NewWave software, is success with customers. 3-7
- HP’s efforts to protect environment and conserve/recycle are explained. 8-12
- HP Labs scientist, Jeanne Wiseman, recognized by 1991 HP Technical Women’s Conference for scientific contributions and community leadership. (women) 13-14
- Hewlett’s hobby is wildflower photography. 15-17
- Bill Wickes, Corvallis, is “father” of HP’s best-selling scientific calculators. 18-20
- HP-95LX palmtop computer is giant step for technology. 21-22
- Dick Alberding, executive vice president, retires after 33 years; as head of Marketing and International Sector, he helped put “global” in HP lexicon. 24-26
- John Young discusses managing practices and open door policy. 27-28
- HP gets awards from Spain and China. 29
- HP opens subsidiary in Prague, Czechoslovakia. 29
- HP Canada’s grants advanced computing lab to school for blind. 30
- HP sponsors cooperative study program with Univ. of Cincinnati to design chromatography lab of future. 31
- Customer’s cat gets tail caught in HP laserjet printer. 32
September-October 1991 Medical Marvels of Monitor Moppets
- HP’s launched its 2116A computer 25 years ago; now computer products are two-thirds of company’s revenue. 3-6
- Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP) comprised of 11 CEOs of top companies; they meet in Washington, DC, to discuss public-policy issues of industry-wide concern. 7
- New acquisitions and joint ventures include Idacom Telecom Division, Edmonton, Alberta Canada; HP & Controll Kft.; AOT Applied Optoelectronic Technology Operation; Edisa Informatica SA; HP Thailand Ltd., Bangkok; HP Ceskoslovensko spol.s.r.o.; HP Portugal S.A., Lisbon; Haupu Information Technology; HCL Hewlett-Packard Ltd.; Hewlett-Packard Polska; Intelligent Network Communication; Apollo Systems Division; Bergamo, Italy Hardcopy Operation; Quingdao Zhonghui Medical Products Ltd; India Manufacturing Operation; Hewlett-Packard Bilgisayar Ve Olcum Sistemleri. 8-11
- HP’s new elder care benefit introduced. 12-15
- Lucile Packard led planning for new Stanford children’s hospital. 16-19
- HP sponsor 24 professors to help earn Ph.D.s. 20-21
- HP uses relative ranking process to gauge employee performance. 22-23
- HP employee helps train dogs to help disabled: Canine Companions for Independence. 24-27
- John Young discusses HP Mexico 25-year success story. 29
- HP signs agreement with Moscow company, which will market and manufacture HP products. 30
- Four U.S. sales regions and Canadian sales region combine. 31
November-December 1991 The New Germany
- Fall of Berlin Wall and German reunification brings HP new opportunities. 3-7
- HP’s network of libraries are modern electronic information centers staff with trained consultants. 8-10
- John Doyle, executive vice-president and employee from 1956-1991, is Management by Walking Around (MBWA) originator in 1967. 12-14
- COLOS (conceptual learning of science project) software written by Zvonko Fazarinc uses computers to teach complex scientific principles in easy to understand ways. 15
- Federal Express uses HP Apollo 9000 computers to develop new FedEx system to monitor flight and truck planning, crew management, weather, maintenance. 16-19
- Buenaventura “Benny” Garcia, Spain, is competitive swimmer. 20-23
- John Young discusses changes that made 1991 tough year. 24-25
- Charles Babbage calculator rebuilt. 26
- HP equipment appears in movie “Terminator 2: Judgement Day.” 27
- HP Exeter Computer Manufacturing Operation (ECMO), Exeter, N.H., first to earn International Standards Organization (ISO) certification. 27
- Third-quarter net revenue up 8 percent, earnings up 20. 28
- “Real Life” advertising campaign features HP products used in every-day situations. 29
- New products in 1991 include HP 75000 model D20, HP FAX 300, HP SONOS 1500 echocardiography system, HP 8504A precision reflectometer, HP systems and servers, HP OpenView software, HP DeskJet 500J Japanese language printer, HP SCSI-2 disk drives, HP ORCA chemical analysis robot, HP RTAP 5.1 industrial automation enabler, HP DeskWriter C printer laser quality color printing, HP ScanJet IIc printer scanner. 30-31
