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HP Garage on National Register of Historic Places

Posted by Zonk on from the keeping-the-oldies-golden dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to the San Jose Mercury News, Bill Hewlett's famous garage is now on the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places. It's not clear what exactly this will do for the structure, since it's already owned by HP and it already very well restored to its original glory. Anyway, for history fans and HP fans alike, this is exciting news, akin to saving the original Edison or Marconi labs. 'At my user group's museum, where David Packard actually worked for a while when it was a military base, our collection features an HP-300A Harmonic Wave Analyzer. That's a generation or two removed from HP's garage years, but it's still fun to appreciate the connections between their first products and the computer revolution.'"

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  1. Too Big That Register! by chromozone · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Now you can see whay the Register of Historic Places has been criticised for easy access with the NRHP criteria criticised as "so broad as to be almost useless when evaluating specific properties".

  2. Re:Worst Comparison Ever by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It would help if you got your facts straight first. Edison did not invent the light bulb. He merely made one that lasted long enough to be useful.

  3. Re:Worst Comparison Ever by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Egg on face, it wasn't necessarily life that was the only problem (though it was one), but other factors too, such as cost of manufacture or cost of operation.

  4. Re:Worst Comparison Ever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    try the scientific calculator you inbred pos
    Yes, I am a point of sale. But you still didn't list a reference. HP invented the scientific calculator? Oh, do go on.

    Go ahead and cite your source of information.