The Garage where it all started

[MRD]

"PALO ALTO, Calif.--Sometimes, when things are huge, it's easy to forget that they come from the most humble of backgrounds.

Such is the case with Hewlett-Packard, one of the biggest technology companies in the world. It has a massive headquarters in this central Silicon Valley town, but like the stuff of legends, it got its start 71 years ago in a tiny garage in the middle of an otherwise nondescript residential neighborhood here.

Today, that garage, and the house it sits behind, belong to HP. In front of the house is a plaque declaring the location the "birthplace of Silicon Valley" and noting that it was recently added to the National Registry of Historic Places.

But back in 1938, the garage--significantly renovated in 2005--was the affordable rental workshop secured by William Hewlett and David Packard, two Stanford University engineering graduates who, after going back east for stints at MIT and General Electric, respectively, came back to Palo Alto to start a business."

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[flew-da-coup]

That's cool. Gee, listen to me. I sound like a geek.

I didn't even know that it still existed.

[USMCPMEL]

Fluke Corporation was founded in 1948 by John Fluke to manufacture electronics testing equipment like power meters and Ohmmeters Pretty sure Mr Fluke started in his garage too. I believe he was frustrated after being in the Navy and finding most of thier test equipment to be junk and not very user friendly.