January 1967 Introducing the 2116A
- New HP 2116A computer developed for use with measuring instruments. 2 3
- Interview with Bill Doolittle, vice president for international operations, discusses importance of Latin American market. 4 5
- Yokogawa-HP headquarters and manufacturing facilities profiled. 6 7
- Need for physical fitness in highly mechanized and automated society. 8-9, 12
- HP Palo Alto hosts 30 U.S. government officials. 10
- Colorado Springs gets Navy contract. 10
- Profit sharing distributes over $2 million. 10
- Year-end results are company record. 10
- Measure photo on textbook. 10
- New Neely Salt Lake office. 10
- HP Italy helps flood victims. 10
- Packard discusses 1966 year-end analysis. 11
- Calisthenics demonstrated. 12
February 1967 HP’s 1967 Catalog
- First annual HP catalog lists 593 pages of medical, chemical and electronic instrumentation. 2 4
- Unintentionally funny letters to HP. 5
- Inventory decisions directly impact number of job offers and level of profits. 6 7
- HP instruments fight pollution; F&M gas chromatograph. 8 9
- Montreal sales office opens. 10
- Annual management meeting in Monterey focuses on challenges of 1967 and beyond. 10
- Jack Beckett, HP’s government relations manager, in charge of Wescon. 10
- Yokogawa-HP responds to typhoon. 10
- Service awards presented. 10
- Boeblingen plant to expand. 10
- 1000th X-Y recorder sold. 10
- Stock dividend of 10 cents/share distributed. 10
- Packard discusses highlights of manager’s meeting. 11
- HP oscilloscope helps measure inside of human eye. 12
March 1967 Employees Scholarship Program
- HP employees’ scholarship drive launches this month; program started 15 years ago. 2 5
- HP displays new corporate exhibit structure for trade shows. 6
- Open-door policy for general managers, and managing by objective is described. 7 9
- First-quarter sales up 27 percent, earnings up 13. 10
- Profit-sharing retirement program boosted by over $3.7 million. 10
- Far East sales manager named. 10
- Clyde Coombs, engineering manager, authors textbook, Printed Circuits Handbook. 10
- YHP picks one employee to work in Palo Alto for a year. 10
- Nova Scotia sales office opens. 10
- Third product “showboat,” floating lab, demonstrates medical and chemical instruments in S. America. 10
- Portland sales office expands. 10
- Packard discusses company and individual growth. 11
- Delcon detector finds bad insulator and prevents serious power outage in Pacific Power & Light substation. 12
April 1967 What My Dad Does at HP
- Kid’s describe parents’ HP jobs through letters and pictures. 2 5
- HP pays $90,000 taxes every day, including hidden taxes in cost of everything the company buys, payroll deduction taxes, foreign taxes, and so on. 6 7
- Delcon Division role and products highlighted. 8 9
- Vacation policy adds one additional day of vacation for each year employed beyond five years. 10
- Mountain View division formed. 10
- Eastern sales region has new headquarters in Paramus, N.J. 10
- New building in Avondale plant to finish in a few weeks. 10
- Two new HP distributors named: Bogota, Colombia, and Manila, Philippines. 10
- YHP hosts WEMA tour. 10
- Packard discusses importance of Brazil and Latin America. 11
- HP exhibits new instruments at IEEE trade show in New York. 12
May 1967 Vacation ‘67
- Measure magazine researches “different” vacations within financial range of most people. 2 5
- Process engineering seeks new and better processes. 6 8
- Test Your HP IQ; 12,000 HP employees as of 1967. 9
- HP Australia formed with offices in Melbourne and Sydney. 10
- HP buys Varian group in Beverly, Mass. 10
- Packard picked for advisory committee by President Lyndon Johnson to study and recommend adjustments in top federal salaries. 10
- New Mexico sales office in Las Cruces. 10
- Ceylon distributor picked. 10
- Orlando, Fla., customer service expands. 10
- 30,000 square feet addition to Stanford plant, Palo Alto. 10
- New sales office in Dayton, Ohio. 10
- Packard discusses scholarships and savings bond drive. 11
- HP on cover of Peruvian electronic magazine, Electronica. 12
June 1967 SPECIAL ISSUE: Measurement’s New Dimension
- Electronic revolution, with the computer at its center, will be able to control universe; beginning of man’s interest in measuring; history of measuring system. 4 7
- Discovery of the electron and what it means to measuring; modern electronics as a branch of technology. 8 11
- Electronics and the future -– what is logically possible based on what is known; HP develops instruments that are more complex internally but easier to use. 12 14
- How measuring is used in the day of an average person. 15
July 1967 ICs: New Generation of Mighty Midgets
- Integrated circuits (ICs) and their use in HP products and consumer goods; ICs make it possible to reduce size of products and lead to lower prices. 2 5
- HP Olympics in Loveland and Colorado Springs; photos. 6 7
- Employee stock purchase plan is explained and the process of stock market; HP plan began in 1959. 8 9
- Colorado Springs division occupies new building. 10
- HP Laboratories moves to new Stanford plant. 10
- Two executives loaned to State of California. 10
- Hewlett elected Stanford trustee. 10
- Delcon Division wins Putnam Honors Award for ultrasonic translator detector. 10
- “Showboat,” lab on Santa Leonor ship, demonstrates instruments; headed for Latin American ports. 10
- Measure survey results; 94 percent of employees read it. 10
- Packard discusses managers’ meeting and how it strengthens interdivisional communication. 11
- HP electronic counter used at Colorado Springs HP Soap Box Derby; electronic timing equipment used at Pikes Peak Hill climb. 12
August 1967 Rapid Transit
- Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system to be built; HP testing equipment used in project. 2 5
- F&M scientific division Avondale, Pa., profiled. 6 7
- HP 175A scope used to check data-processing machines at Harrahs casino in Tahoe and Reno. 8 9
- Record sales month for orders at $24 million. 10
- Wescon trade show scheduled. 10
- Stock dividend of 10 cents/share distributed. 10
- Accountants win award for outstanding chapter of National Assoc. of Accountants. 10
- Customer service, in Mountain View, restructured to speed customer repairs. 10
- Hewlett goes to Europe for President’s Science Advisory Committee to improve technological cooperation. 10
- Fortune 500 ranks HP 341. 10
- Packard discusses handling customer needs and its effect on field engineers. 11
- Vintage HP instrument collection at Western Service Center. 12
September 1967 Wescon ‘67
- Customers are comparison shopping at Wescon trade show. 2 4
- Importance of making out a last will and testament. 5
- F&T glass-blowing team; important skills, materials and processes important. 6 7, 12
- HP central library holdings, processes and staff. 8 9
- Third-quarter sales and earnings reach record; sales up 22 percent, earnings up 20. 10
- HPSA breaks ground near Geneva. 10
- Frederick Horman (sales) dies. 10
- New Dallas sales office construction begins. 10
- HPSA Geneva establishing subsidiaries for Denmark, Norway and Finland. 10
- New Neely sales office opens. 10
- HP educational assistance program expands. 10
- HP headquarters near Orsay, France, starts construction. 10
- New Zealand subsidiary named. 10
- New distributor in Lisbon picked. 10
- Packard discusses Wescon challenges; electronics field becoming much more competitive.
October 1967 Mission: Tomorrow
- Planning for mankind’s future and the state of agricultural research; scientific research at UC-Davis highlighted. 2 5
- Mountain View division braces for growth in computer industry with two principal product lines: digital and analog magnetic tape recorders. 6 7
- Independent auditors check accuracy of company inventories. 8 9
- Emery Rogers to head Avondale division. 10
- Sanborn’s 50th anniversary; acquired by HP in 1961. 10
- South America’s sales subsidiaries. 10
- Oklahoma sales office opens. 10
- New Stanford building bought. 10
- Jean Chognard is new general counsel. 10
- Stan Selby named assistant to vice president for western operation, Colorado Springs; Bill Terry succeeds Selby as division general manager. 10
- 300-400 new retirement plan participants. 10
- Two new division names to reflect locations: F&M is Avondale Division and Dymec becomes Palo Alto Division. 10
- Packard discusses expanding in Europe and Japan. 11
- HP wins two industrial research awards for network analyzer and coaxial microwave switching modules. 12
November 1967 HP Communications System
- HP communication network is complex, sophisticated system; modes of communication discussed. 2 5
- HP vocabulary test; industry jargon. 6
- New facilities, photo roundup: Colorado Springs; Las Cruces, N.M.; Palo Alto; Point Claire, Quebec, Canada; Atlanta, Ga.; Mountain View; Avondale, Pa.; HP Associates, Palo Alto. 7 10
- Noise pollution concerns and measuring with 8051A loudness analyzer. 11-16
- International receives two largest orders in company history, from Mexico. 14
- Paramus, N.J., new sales office for Eastern Region. 14
- Sanborn Division renamed Waltham Division. 14
- Two new sections in corporate marketing: corporate systems engineering and corporate systems marketing. 14
- HP is Westinghouse Vendor of Month. 14
- HP Australia has new office. 14
- Packard discusses order-shipment gap. 15
December 1967 Contributions of HP People
- Citizenship contribution, community involvement by HP employees. 2 6
- Contributions from HPSA; by working as a team, people able to make contribution beyond their numbers. 7 10
- People helping people and volunteerism among employees. 11 13
- Packard and Hewlett objectives offer corporate challenges; acknowledging success of HP on individual contributions. 14-15
