“At the time of the separation of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc., archives were established to ensure the 75+ year history was preserved. These archives are housed in Atlanta, Georgia. During the recent Santa Rosa fire, archives owned by Keysight Technologies (a company spun off from Agilent Technologies; once part of HP) suffered damage. Reports that HP founder archives burned are misleading. HP’s sites were not impacted and archives remain intact in both physical and digital formats.  HP’s archives contain hundreds of items related to HP’s founders including many examples of speeches, personal correspondence, writings and other materials. In addition, many other materials from the founders are part of public collections, such as the William Hewlett papers (1907-2010) held by Stanford University. The HP Garage where the company was founded is a historical landmark noted as the birthplace of Silicon Valley and serves as a private museum.”


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Keysight Technologies has confirmed thousands of important papers related to Silicon Valley's early history it stored in Santa Rosa were destroyed in the North Bay fires.

The archives, which contained about 100 banker's-sized boxes of the writings, speeches and other materials by Silicon Valley pioneers David Packard and William Hewlett, were windows into their thinking and dated as far back as 1937, according to former archivist Karen Lewis, who assembled the collection for Hewlett-Packard Co. beginning in 1987.

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The boxes were stored in one of two modular buildings at Keysight’s Fountaingrove headquarters, which burned in the Tubbs Fire.

Keysight was the original testing and measurement business founded by Hewlett and Packard in 1939. In 1999, Hewlett-Packard spun it off into Agilent Technologies, which then spun off Keysight in 2013.

The lost archive doesn’t represent all of HP’s legacy. A spokeswoman for HP Inc. said other documents are stored elsewhere, and there’s still the original Palo Alto garage, now a museum, where the company was born.

“Reports that HP founder archives burned are misleading,” HP spokeswoman Dana Lengkeek said in an email. HP archives elsewhere include speeches and personal correspondence from HP’s founders, she said, and public collections hold other documents (Stanford has the William Hewlett papers).

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https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2017/10/30/hewlett-packard-historical-archives-destroyed-in-wine-country-fires
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Silicon-Valley-historians-saddened-over-loss-of-12318337.php
https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/tech-history/silicon-revolution/loss-of-hewlettpackard-archive-a-wakeup-call-for-computer-historians
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