The garage where it all began

by SOLARLIFE | April 12, 2008 at 02:03 am | 365 views | add comment | 0 recommendations

70 Y Garage factory HP Palo Alto

hewlett packard
the historic garage
where HP got started
America restart your Ideas for 2050
get into production idea to market

1938 DAVE AND HIS WIFE LUCILE
RENTED ADDISON AVE FOR $45 A MONTH
HEWLETT WAS AN OUTDOOR MAN,
FIRST PRODUCT OF THE GARAGE FACTORY
OSCILLATOR 200A TO TEST SOUND EQUIPMENT
selling for $71.50 INSTEAD OF $500
SILICON VALLEY WAS BORN.........

1985 Regis Mc Kenna, the finance Icon
who made Intel and Appel going, started book
Silicon Valley and it's Marketing strategies

The garage where it all began

The stark interior has been restored to how it looked 70 years ago

Silicon Valley is pitted with sites of pilgrimage for geeks but, for many, the lovingly restored garage at 367 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto is a draw like no other.

In some senses this unassuming suburban street in Northern California can be considered the birthplace of the world's first hi-tech region. It is where the founders of Hewlett Packard got started.