1975 – Peninsulan

January 1975

  • Annual meeting
  • Apply for summer jobs
  • Beckett named chairman of Metropolitan
  • Care offered Foothill students
  • Corporate training (TV) merged with management development
  • Crandall reminisces
  • Gun Club
  • How to get there
  • HP-55 unveiled
  • Legally required notice to HP personnenl
  • Meeks Bay property sold
  • Metric training to start
  • Photo of lab chiefs meeting
  • Ski Club
  • Transportation Commission

February 1975

  • Annual march
  • Annual walkathon
  • Delivery of 10,000th minicomputer (photo)
  • Delivery of 2640A
  • Dos and Don’ts
  • Feature story
  • “Flying doctors” and working with handicapped
  • HP-21 introduced
  • Info available
  • Insert
  • Joe Tembrock, Cupertino “citizen of year”
  • Named Cupertino “citizen of the year”
  • Packard receives Washington Award
  • Peninsulan still being placed in Watt’s Current delivery tray
  • Presentation of awards
  • Prices going up
  • Working with handicapped

March 1975

  • Career guidance offered
  • Donations and applications due
  • Employment opportunities
  • First quarter
  • Husband and son graduate
  • Metric program reaches milestone
  • Moderately priced condominiums offered
  • New manufacturing plant
  • New sidewalk at main plant
  • Photo
  • Photo and caption
  • Photo of street sweeper
  • Savings up
  • Science Fair opens April 10
  • Skiing (one leg)
  • Soccer photo
  • Surplus HP cars scarce
  • Wild river trip

April 1975

  • Adjust auto head restraints to avoid injury
  • Asian Business Conference
  • Bill Terry to head Scout Exposition
  • Cheaper and quicker
  • Donors needed
  • Fund-raising program
  • Hewlett named “outstanding” exec. By FINANCIAL WORLD
  • HP matches individual contributions to alma maters
  • Microprocessor course offered
  • Packard opens Exec Seminar
  • Packard speaks to Exec Seminar
  • Santa Clara Univ. uses HP 3000 system
  • Special commuter bus between Santa Clara and Palo Alto
  • Sun roof at AMD – photo, p. 1, story p.3
  • Terry to head Boy Scout Exposition

May 1975

  • Administrative group seminar
  • Division hosts black career day
  • Data Systems hosts black career day
  • Fifth anniversary
  • HP awarded 1975 Industrial Wastewater Control Award
  • HP skiers do more than ski
  • HP winner of Water Pollution Control’s award
  • HPIB a hit at IEEE
  • Interface Bus a hit at this year’s show
  • Medical alert bracelet recommended
  • New lab serves industrial community
  • New system lists surplus equipment
  • New videotapes give corporate view
  • Next issue to be a special one
  • Photo and caption of Noemi Carrera
  • Photo and caption of clean room in new IC lab
  • Photo of TV production
  • Tax change means more take home

June 1975

  • 2000 Access System
  • Bill named to direct Urban Coalition fund drive
  • Bill Johnston to direct fund drive
  • Bond drive
  • Computers aid ticket sales in entertainment field
  • CSC’s Clay Fiedler
  • Deposits set records
  • Evening courses at UC-Berkeley
  • Health plan now covers legal awards
  • Library Assn. elects Mark Baer to
  • Liong Wong at Data Systems for two year training
  • Mark elected to B of D of Special Libraries
  • Association
  • Second quarter earnings
  • Service representatives for discounts
  • Winners announced

July 1975

  • Bike lane changed at HP entrance
  • Conn. Gen. increase premiums employees have opportunity to change coverage
  • Frank Williams heads corporate personnel
  • HP-65 used in Apollo/Soyuz hook-up
  • Meeks Bay property sold
  • Mike Catalano awarded “best speaker” by Semiconductor Technology Council
  • Milpitas bus needs riders
  • Photos and story
  • Policy changed on calculator purchases
  • Recording for Blind studio volunteers
  • Williams named to head corporate personnel

August 1975

  • 35 being retired
  • APD announces new programmable
  • APD hosts Career Awareness Fair
  • Benefits increased
  • Bill Craven new general manager
  • Blood drive set
  • Buildings begun in Boise, Corvallis
  • Deed of trust loans available
  • Dividend raised
  • Fall program
  • HP increases limits
  • New division formed
  • New system handles medical claims
  • Retirement benefits
  • Schedule for Christmas and New Year
  • Soccer players needed

September 1975

  • 22 introduced
  • Auto racing – Al Johnsen
  • Cottrell appointed corporate customer support manager
  • Jerry appointed controller
  • Feature
  • Fellowship program lauded
  • Foothill-DeAnza orders 2 minicomputers
  • Library needs paperbacks for recreational reading
  • Marty Collins of APD cited for volunteer film work
  • Mary Collins of APD cited for Hope for Retarded film
  • Start of assembly in Oregon
  • Summer fellowship program lauded
  • Third quarter
  • TV group seeks acting talent

October 1975

  • Construction contract awarded
  • Communication costs
  • Comsys recommended over telephone use
  • Construction contract awarded
  • Demolition of old buildings to make way for new Mfg. Div. facility
  • Fab shops transfer from Mfg. Div. to Standard Park Division
  • IBM 370 Job Control Language program being considered
  • I. Magnin show
  • Leo Olsen elected director of National Association of
  • Accountants
  • Moderately priced condominiums offered
  • Named Executive VP
  • New medical and life insurance plans announced
  • Notify personnel department of any change of
  • address
  • Olsen elected a director of Natl’ Assn. of Accountants
  • Price reductions
  • Ross Welburn builds an electric car
  • Stanford Hospital purchases medical equipment
  • Stanford purchases medical equipment
  • Telephone costs
  • Visit by state legislators
  • Welburn builds an electric car
  • WESCON sets records

November 1975

  • 21 price reduced
  • Accident figures — home accidents as opposed to
  • Busy conference center (Bldg. 18)
  • shark attacks
  • Computer Systems building started in Cupertino
  • Corporate beer bust
  • General article
  • HP gardeners at corporate plot
  • Meeting
  • New building started in Cupertino
  • New sales organization established for marketing Fourier Analyzer systems
  • On-demand printing of stored
  • Packard meets with Czech delegation
  • Petrak celebrates 30th anniversary at HP
  • Printing Services has Xerox copier
  • Richard Baugh of HP Labs and wilderness survival
  • Rose Parade souvenir programs offered to depositors
  • Ski Club meeting
  • Toy drive
  • Wilderness survival: Richard Baugh of HP Labs
  • Womens’ lib
  • Xerox copier installed in Printing Services

December 1975

  • Annual meeting scheduled
  • Bike safety article
  • Commute by bus from Santa Clara
  • CSC golf team wins HP interplant league
  • documents by Xerox microfiche
  • HP named “one of five best” managed companies in 1975
  • HP top United Way contributor
  • John Celton, Red Cross volunteer
  • Minicomputer show announced
  • Move to Santa Clara
  • Open House on November 22
  • Preliminary year-end results
  • Red Cross volunteer
  • Schedule for Christmas and New Year
  • Storage of information on Xerox microfiche
  • Workshop program for high school students in area