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- swavalier711, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17People seem to use garages a lot before they begin massively successful companies.
(Starts hauling out computer equipment to garage) - praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -1/+14They're also useful for making snuff films.
- stephend, on 10/11/2007, -3/+16Please - the Apple garage is a me-too garage. The HP garage (or, strictly speaking, the Agilent Garage - as it was a 'Test and Measurement' site that was spun off as Agilent in 1999 along with all historical archives and products belonging to the original HP) was the foundation of Silicon Valley - not just some place where a popular company started.
- thegsa, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12@euphemizeme
hhmmm, please tell - davidleeroth, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10@euphemizeme
I'd sooner call you delirious than that. - cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+8It's practically a given that anything on Engadget will reach Digg front page a few hours later. Déjà Vu for real.
Maybe I should just get rid of my RSS for Engadget, it's going to turn up on Digg anyway. - charliecharlos, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Great, now you're gonna have people flocking there and taking pictures as if it wasn't just another garage. Graceland for geeks
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6The garage is, indeed, a historic landmark. It is the only part of HP that has not been outsourced to India.
- AfterbrthTycoon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2as someone who lives by it I can pretty much assure you there will be no large crowds storming the garage. It's not very accessible and the view you get is bad. Think of an old garage placed way in the back corner of a regular house's yard and a gate stopping you far from even the front of the house, let alone the garage. Still, Cool place to be if you are into that.
- metalhead3767, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I was there a few weeks ago and I agree with AfterbrthTycoon. Its just a house. Theres a sign in front saying what it is. The driveway is closed off by a gate and the garage is in the back of the yard.
- HardwareWeenie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1By the way, if you want to read the history of this garage, as provided by HP, here is the link http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/garage/
- TorontoTed, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This is great! The next time Costa Rican tourists visit the U.S they can see the birth place of their employer.
Have you seen the employee compounds HP provides it's Costa Rican employees? Absolutely Gorgeous It looks like a resort!
/HP is building massive data centers in Costa Rica.
HP is a great company to work for especially if your living in Costa Rica. The average age of employees in CR is 25. They hire them straight out of high school.
How do I know this... I used to work for HP and a friend of mine was training a Costa Rican to do his job. So he heard all kinds of stories. Hp also has an internal website that profiles its CR facilities and employees.
I liked working for HP but the stress from hearing rumors of having my job outsourced was not worth it.
Getting back to the facilities in Costa Rica, If you saw the building they work and live in you would not want to work for any other company. Absolutely stunning! If you live in Costa Rica apply to HP and visit the garage.
If you work for HP, my prayers are with you as they are with my friends that still work there. I'm not trying to disparage HP just telling it like it is. They will eventually be a discount house for IT support. - HardwareWeenie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1As a former HP employee, now part of Agilent, I was given an opportunity to visit the garage, and the adjoining house during the few days it was open to the "public" back a few years ago, just after the renovation. Agilent was spun off from HP back in 1999 as HP took the computing and imaging products, and their HUGE profits and left us with every thing else.
I read the comments on the site linked above and there is a big fight over whether HP started Silicon Valley. One of the posters makes a good point that HP wasn't really in the business of making Silicon, it was in the business of making test equipment, and that Fairchild was the first to make silicon devices. The question is why make this garage a landmark?
The real story behind the garage is that many of the things that Bill and Dave (Hewlett and Packard) came up with while forming their company came from their experiences in this little garage, There is a phrase we still use "The HP way" which comes from their experiences struggling to start their company. As with many successful businesses, it's not just the technology it's the business processes that are implemented. Once they were successful enough to hire employees, other than a spouse, they became increasingly concerned about doing things the right way, not just the bottom line. They eventually wrote out these fundamentals, of course, making a profit was key, but right behind that was being a good corporate and community citizen. The company called HP today, is just a shell of the original company started by Bill and Dave. In fact many people agree that Agilent carries the torch lit by these two, we still produce and sell Test and Measurement equipment and try our best to uphold the HP way.
This landmark status is as much about recognizing Bill and Dave as admirable people for their technical and business prowess, as it is about the physical garage that started it all. - SVPirate, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@stephend
"not just some place where a popular company started"
I dugg you up because I agree re: HP's starting Silicon Valley, but you are possibly forgetting Apple as good as started the Personal Computer revolution, which IMHO is the next great landmark after HP's. I think it makes sense to preserve both sites. - Thadster, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I have been in that garage. (hold back gasps of awe) I was called in to work on the security system as they could not arm it at the time. Small garage with that "old" garage smell.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3Hi, I'm Steve Jobs. You might remember from such films as 'Gerbils all up in my Guts' and 'Stomach Pump V'. more at 11.
- cuoops, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1More info and....wow look, it even has a map on this page http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_5925786?source=rss&nclick_check=1
It took me forever to find the link. - guytoronto, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1What's next? Ron Jeremy's bedroom?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3i have never owned anything from HP that i didn't end up throwing into a landfill in anger and frustration. if there were an award for consistently sucking, HP would be the clear winner.
- edifyquest, on 10/11/2007, -8/+2euphemizeme, the N-word is lame. However, if I could get a "massage" for using this word, that might justify.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -6/+0Why would a company like HP own that they didn't do anything for the IT industry?
- cyclox, on 10/11/2007, -7/+1I hear they store lamesauce in that garage.
- kingkilr, on 10/11/2007, -17/+5They should do this with the garage Steve Jobs started in also.
- aussieNickuss, on 10/11/2007, -14/+2Yeah....i'd like to see jobs/woz's garage. More interesting than HP's.
- euphemizeme, on 10/11/2007, -20/+2@ myself above
Please bury this and that comment, it's a long story but I didn't mean to type that in this window. - euphemizeme, on 10/11/2007, -30/+1Call me a ***** again and I'll never give you another massage you jerk. Think on it next time, k
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