Packard's garage

Packard's garage, is a museum where Hewlett-Packard was founded. Is now considered to be the "Birthplace of Silicon Valley" [http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/feature_stories/2005/05garage.html] .

It has been restored at the original property, at 367 Addison Avenue, Palo Alto, California, near Stanford University, as it was in 1939 when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard used it. They had rented the property specifically for their needs, as it provided garage workshop with a 3-room ground floor apartment for the newly married Dave and Lucile Packard, with a sleeping shed for Bill.

HP's first product, built in the garage, was an audio oscillator [http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/garage/brief.pdf] . One of Hewlett-Packard's first customers was Walt Disney Studios Fact|date=February 2007, which purchased eight oscillators to test and certify the sound systems in theaters that were going to run the first major film released in stereophonic sound, Fantasia.

The HP garage is not open for public tours, but the property can be viewed from the sidewalk and driveway.

Historical Designations

* California registered landmark, 1987Poletti, Therese, [http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_5925786?nclick_check=1 HP garage named U.S. landmark: Property Where HP Was Founded Now Listed On U.S. Historic Registry] , San Jose Mercury-News, May 182007]
* National historic landmark, 2007Poletti, Therese, [http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_5925786?nclick_check=1 HP garage named U.S. landmark: Property Where HP Was Founded Now Listed On U.S. Historic Registry] , San Jose Mercury-News, May 182007]

References

External links

* [http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/garage/ Rebuilding HP's Garage]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/national/04garage.html "Shrine to Hours of Tinkering in a Garage on the Ground Floor of Silicon Valley", "New York Times", Dec. 4, 2005]