1977 – Peninsulan

January 1977

  • Andover facility opened
  • Division to Palo Alto plants
  • Engineering fellowship at Stanford
  • Express bus
  • HP to build bike path
  • New job posting system
  • New regulations
  • Photo of new Data Systems-Data Terminals building
  • Service Awards
  • State disability higher
  • “Tax corner”
  • Teachers needed for engineering review courses
  • Toy drive successful
  • Warriors tickets available

February 1977

  • Datacommunications training manual
  • Dividend raised
  • EDP realigned into mini, maxi centers.
  • Electronics technician exam
  • Engineering exam
  • Glassblower Sagimori’s bonsai tree to HP
  • HP’s “mini-parks”
  • HP mourns Flora Hewlett’s death
  • Kyoko Sagimori’s glass bonsai tree gift to HP
  • Mediators needed for Palo Alto Rental Housing Task Force
  • Named Fellow of IEEE
  • OED four man team has book published August by McGraw-Hill
  • OED product wins award
  • Photo of exhibit at meeting
  • Ski trip to Sun Valley
  • Sportfishers info

March 1977

  • Avondale facility completed
  • Barbara earns second degree from Stanford
  • Barbara Packard at General Systems used Honors Co-Op
  • Blood drive set
  • Calculator “games pac”
  • Chance named marketing manager for Computer Systems Group
  • Donations sought
  • Doolittle cited by Pan Am for 100th Atlantic crossing
  • Engineers for a day photo
  • First quarter earnings
  • Golden State Warriors tickets available
  • Holmes in new assignment
  • HP sport divers organize
  • Photo of 10,000th terminal
  • Prices to go up
  • Status of women
  • Union stronger than ever

April 1977

  • Computer Careers Day at DeAnza
  • Corporate move to Bldg. 28A
  • Corvallis to have IC facility
  • Credit Union pays 6-1/4% dividend
  • Don’t seek health care at Santa Theresa facility
  • Eligibility expanded for “continued medical” benefit
  • Hal new general manager at Santa Clara
  • James Hodgson elected
  • Myrt killed in air disaster
  • New studio at Page Mill Hill
  • Opportunity to donate organs and tissues of your body upon death
  • Opportunity to win an HP-21
  • Paul Gallagher plans new MSD building by using a computer
  • Riggen new general manager for Colorado Springs
  • Sailing Club
  • School stock
  • Thanks from Yas
  • Thank you letters for school stock
  • TV studio wins “Emmy” awards

May 1977

  • “An HP wife shares facts about Tris”
  • Barney was presented the Lamme Medal by IEEE
  • Carpools, vanpools, bikes, etc.
  • Direct deposit
  • Gabriel Antunes builds home in Los Altos
  • Hewlett elected to National Academy of science
  • Marine World site of ’77 picnic
  • Minority Students’ Days successful
  • Packard to promote water project
  • “Some commuters are using less energy”
  • Sportfishers
  • Rechtin was recipient of ’77 Alexander Graham Bell Award from IEEE
  • Tennis
  • Those #$%&* chain letters
  • Watch model gliders

June 1977

  • 44 scholarships awarded
  • Calculator-Watch
  • Drill bits available
  • Earnings, profit-sharing
  • First half profit-sharing
  • Growing more, using less
  • Little Basin camping
  • Miller to head service for Calculator Group
  • More successes for HP-sponsored Jas
  • Public Service citation presented by Navy
  • Record earnings
  • See your service rep
  • Western day at cafeteria

July 1977

  • Answers to your questions
  • Auto Auction
  • Blood Drive
  • Calculator-Watch – employee discount
  • Calvin Gibson starts own factory
  • Carl Buchhass elec. pres.
  • CMS annual athletic meet
  • Comparison
  • DELCON Inst. Rep. Ctr. stops smoking
  • Disability
  • Foothill College
  • Holds annual athletic meet
  • HP Day
  • Inst. Repair Ctr. stops smoking
  • MSD builds new plant in San Jose – photo
  • New Plant site in San Jose
  • Presented to Dr. J. Leon Shohet
  • Recording for Blind volunteers
  • Starts own wheelbarrow factory
  • Terman Award
  • Volunteer needed

August 1977

  • $150,000 cash award for ecology invention
  • American September issue
  • Article by Barnie Oliver
  • Article to appear in Scientific
  • Calculator watch delayed sale to employees
  • Chinese visitor photo
  • Data Systems installs parcourse
  • Dividend declared
  • Donations
  • Employee sales of Cal-watch delayed
  • Explanation of HMOs
  • Fall program
  • Frank Kopish of Data Systems writes Shakespearean copy for engineers
  • HP Day
  • Installs Parcourse
  • Loans
  • Meetings on Wed. noon hours
  • Moderately priced condominiums offered
  • Photo – Bob Grimm and UW staff
  • Self breast examination
  • Shakespeare type writing for
  • Retires after 35 years
  • Tyler Ecology Award

September 1977

  • 1977 Campaign under way
  • Delivers 300th system
  • Dick Anderson retires from Board. Of Dir.
  • HP Softball team wins MV league
  • Major building additions
  • Making home computers
  • Microcomputer Interest Group
  • New format starting November
  • New phone system to be installed in 6 months
  • Out door concerts
  • Palo Alto School District
  • Photo going away party
  • Rally in Sunnyvale – Sept. 17
  • Third quarter
  • Three trips planned for session
  • Transfers to Corvallis, retires from Board of Directors of CU

October 1977

  • $307,000 collected ’77
  • Corporate Hdqs. plans new site in PA
  • Elected Exec. Vice President
  • Employee sales of Calculator watch begins
  • Health alliance included in Nov. open enrollment
  • John Young Elected President
  • One year old program
  • Open enrollment announced for November
  • New selection of jewelry announced
  • November 17 set as put aside cigarettes day
  • Photo – Myron Cox (Neeley Santa Clara) and “little brother”
  • Receives Herbert Hoover Award from Stanford Alumni Ass.
  • Seatbelts save more than 3000 lives annually
  • Stop smoking day November 17
  • To head Manufacturing Services
  • Topped $20 million in assets

November 1977

  • Annual meeting
  • Completion of water saving projects
  • HP wins “Big Booth Award”
  • Income tax deduction for SDI off again
  • Loaned executive to HIRE program
  • Merges with Data Systems
  • Photo of new bike path 854 bicycles stolen in P.A. in 1976
  • President Carter’s, Jack Ingersoll, loaned executive
  • Receives 1977 Award of Merit from American Consulting Engineers
  • Receives Distinguished Citizen Award from Boy Scouts
  • Sandy Baltierra volunteer
  • San Jose’s Tapestry in Talent
  • Schedules for 78 and 79
  • “Silver Mailbox”
  • Toy drive
  • Watches order now will be here for Christmas
  • Word Processing

December 1977

  • Error in schedule noted by many
  • Second half profit-sharing
  • Supplemental Pension plan
  • W-2 forms out in late January