January 1968 HP’s Customer College
- HP customer training programs are growing due to many new products; last year’s customer training included 300 seminars and courses taken by 10,000 customers. 2 5
- Long-time employees reminisce about their careers at HP. 6 7
- 1967 HP highlights month-by-month. 8 9
- Electronic music synthesizers; some studios use HP equipment to test, develop, calibrate and power the synthesizers. 10 12
- HP catalog contains 2,163 products; one of everything would cost over $2.3 million. 13
- HP Germany finishes third building in Boeblingen. 14
- Eastern Sales Region moves into new building, Paramus, N.J. 14
- New sick leave plan makes employees eligible for sick time after only one year. 14
- Packard reviews 1967, a “reasonably good year.” 15
- Synthesized musical score. 16
February 1968 Profits: The Reward of Progress
- Packard discusses profits and problems, such as not meeting shipping targets or reducing costs. 2
- Profits-sharing formula used at HP is explained. 3 4
- Reducing scrap heap, which was 42 percent higher this year and costs $3 million; divisional programs to deal with scrap. 5 7
- HP ways to search for the next big invention: creative science, cooperation with university research programs, government laboratories, geographical positioning, site selection. 8 10
- New diode introduced with multimillion dollar annual sales potential. 11
- Yokogawa-HP management changes. 11
- HP asks Supreme Court to review its legal controversy with and General Accounting Office over fixed-price contracts negotiated with government. 11
- FICA (Social Security) payments increase. 11
- Stock purchase price to employees is $53.13. 11
- Semiannual stock dividend of 10 cents/share announced. 11
- New interest in the oceans as frontier for exploration and exploitation, including food resources. 12 15
- Solid-state version of 200A (HP’s first instrument) makes debut. 16
March 1968 Problem Solving: HP’s New Desk Top Calculator
- Introduction of 9100A desktop calculator that can outperform many computers. 2 5
- Spring fever and HP employees’ recreation. 6-7
- Cutting overhead with systems approach –- improving methods as opposed to cost cutting. 8 10
- Holography, 3D photos; laser research at HP labs. 11 13
- Employee scholarship fund-raising campaign for employee’s children. 14
- Eleven divisions exhibit at IEEE trade show. 14
- J.B. Fulenwider elected to HP board. 14
- Microwave Division to sell thin-film microcircuits. 14
- HP engineer gets patent on automobile carburetor. 14
- First-quarter earnings down 11 percent, sales up 7. 14
- Astronaut Stuart Roosa tours Loveland, Colo., division. 14
- Packard discusses Santa Clara site selection and building. 15
April 1968 Electronic Highways
- HP instrumentation used in FAA air traffic control (ATC) centers. 2 5
- HP shows 50 new instruments at IEEE trade show in New York. 6 7
- Interview with Hewlett about HP’s warranty policy and reducing warranty failures. 8 10
- HP in South Queensferry, Scotland; expectations exceeded about building a plant there. 11 13
- Two computers introduced: 2114A, 2000A. 14
- HP opens district marketing office in Richardson, Texas. 14
- HP denied Supreme Court hearing regarding Government Accounting Agency decisions. 14
- Regional sales offices relocating: Paramus, N.J.; Burlington, Mass., Rockville, Md. 14
- Medical instruments go on display in Lima, Peru. 14
- Packard says reassignments between divisions of both people and products are healthy. 15
- Fashion show at Colorado Springs benefiting CARE. 16
May 1968 Ahead: The Highway that Forgives
- Professor at U of Michigan tests electronic control of vehicles and found it feasible and economical; can transport large number of vehicles safely by eliminating human failings; traffic industry finds applications for HP instruments. 2 5
- Customers see reliability and workmanship as service from initial order to delivery; HP’s efforts to reduce workmanship error and improve quality control. 6 8
- Stock purchase price first quarter. 9
- New HP Systems group in Palo Alto for custom systems. 9
- New Canadian sales office opens in St. James, Manitoba, Canada. 9
- Telectra of Luanda, Angola, appointed distributor; Telecom Ltd. of Teheran, Iran, adds HP’s analytical product line. 9
- HP ad for 181A oscilloscope scores high readership. 9
- HP named Aerojet supplier of month. 9
- Lunchtime athletes, employee recreation. 10 11
- Analytical demonstration of gas chromatography in labs; Annemarie Wegmann. 12 14
- Packard discusses equal opportunity, non-discrimination policy, minority hiring and upgrading. (diversity) 15
- USC students use HP 1300 X-Y CRT monitor to study moon. 16
June 1968 The Listeners
- Listening to outer space, radio astronomy; HP products play important role in astronomical labs around the world: power suppliers, printers, voltmeters, counters, oscilloscopes, recorders. 2 5
- Running your own HP; parody shows money flow if you started your own one-man version of HP. 6 7
- Follow up with customers of HP medical sales. 8 9
- Humorous news at HP – HP “Laugh In.” 10
- Engineers and marketing test new approaches to competition: manufacturability, serviceability, economies of scale. 11 13
- Charlie Euston is new head of Analytical Instrumentation Council. 14
- Savings Bond drive underway. 14
- HP honored at U. of Texas for donating travel lab. 14
- HP talks to security analysts. 14
- Second-quarter shows record earnings; profit sharing totals $2.3 million. 14
- San Diego plant to open. 14
- Packard discusses meeting company’s challenges; product mix and market. 15
- Interstellar message in binary code. 16
July 1968 The Inequality Loop: How We Can Help Break It
- HP’s vice president of personnel, Swede Wild, talks about equal opportunity, inequality, minority hiring. (diversity) 2-7
- Keeping ahead of change; Eastern Sales Region talks about “account manager” concept of field sales organization. 8 10
- Target to improve management decision-making process; “management by objective,” sixth corporate objective. 11 13
- HP ranked 319 in Fortune 500. 14
- HP scholarships awarded to 33 employees’ children. 14
- New Neely sales office opens. 14
- 24 percent of employees invest in savings bonds. 14
- 366 summer hires provide relief to vacationing employees; 108 of summer hires are minorities. (diversity) 14
- Seventh Canadian office opens, St. James, Manitoba. 14
- Packard discusses managers’ meeting. 15
- First time in HP history, monthly sales (in May) were $25 million. 16
August 1968 Television: Miracle Still in the Making
- HP’s involvement in television; history of television. 2 5
- One target for 1968 is cutting administrative and operating costs; small changes can make a big difference. 6 7
- What to do with time off; HP employees contribute interesting vacation ideas, plans and experiences. 8 10
- Lead “girl” in wiring section, Mary Di Matteo, Waltham, Mass., leads through example, encouragement and experience. (women) 11 13
- Edmund Littlefield elected to board. 14
- HP shows new products at Wescon. 14
- Palo Alto division reorganizes. 14
- Stock dividend of 10 cents/share. 14
- HP Australia holds demonstration at New Zealand National Electronics Conference. 14
- Stock purchase price for employees. 14
- Packard discusses political involvement and encourages voting. 15
- Desktop calculator 9100A critical success and popular beyond expectation with buyers. 16
September 1968 Fastest ‘Rep’ in the West
- Western sales region’s Norm Neely and others man new HP product displays at WEMA. 2 4
- HP at Wescon showcases broad sampling of products. 5
- Mexico City Olympics to use HP in telecommunications effort. 6 7
- NASA’s “Red Shift” project tests Einstein’s theory of relativity; use HP atomic clocks. 8 9
- HP employee educational assistance program. 10 11
- One target for 1968 is improved work methods and productivity. 12 13
- Third-quarter sales up 12 percent, orders up 20. 14
- San Diego plant opens. 14
- Electronimex first distributor of HP in Manila, Philippines. 14
- Bah Bolon Trading is HP distributor in Bandung, Indonesia. 14
- HP Paris, France, opens. 14
- U.S. taxes increase; surcharge on federal income taxes. 14
- Santa Clara construction progress. 14
- Packard discusses third-quarter analysis. 15
- United Way giving. 16
October 1968 Now and Then
- Measure magazine follows new employee through her first day on the job. (women) 2 5
- Forty percent of accidents happen at home; safety precautions. 6 7
- Bonneville Salt Flats and HP 5532A automobile timing system. 8 10
- The come-back year, pre-tax profits up. 11 13
- HP demonstrates in SE Asia. 14
- Retirement program adds participants. 14
- Packard discusses change in organization decentralization, formation of group structure. 15
- HP 8020 fetal monitor to debut, 8020A, Boeblingen. 16
November 1968 Australia: The New, New World
- HP in Australia; problems of covering huge continent from offices in Melbourne and Sydney. 2 5
- New group structure presented to deal with company growth and operational complexity. 6 7
- “News style” industrial advertising; ads reflect HP as multifaceted technical company. 8 9
- SLOPPS (systematized, lineal, optional phrase selection system) alphabetic approach to meaningful phrases. 10
- Employees behind night shift building services. 11 13
- John Young named vice president of company and in charge of Electronics Product Group. 14
- New team to coordinate medical products. 14
- Rockaway and Harrison divisions renamed New Jersey Division. 14
- Packard discusses targets for 1969. 15
- Board member Luis Alvarez wins Nobel Prize. 16
December 1968 Christmas
- Packard and Hewlett share Christmas thoughts. 2 3
- Christmas of 50 years ago remembered by employees. 4 7
- $2.7 billion toy market in 1968. 8 9
- HP employees involved in community activities. 10 13
- Record year-end results in sales and earnings. 14
- HP purchases new Cupertino manufacturing plant. 14
- New San Diego site purchased. 14
- Magnavox buys HP test system. 14
- FICA (social security) payments to increase. 14
