re: Quote from Bill Hewlett on creativity...

Walter G Beech — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:43:27 GMT

Before I retired from HP in 1986 I was Lead Man in what was known as the Woodshop. We built bookcases and office furniture as well as going to various buildings to erect partitions or make repairs. Bill used to come to the Wood shop if he wanted something built for his cabin to discuss it with me and when it was ready I would call him and he would come down to pick it up. One time he called me to come up to his office as he had a project he wanted done. When I arrived he said he wanted me to make a liftup table on the end of his desk so his secretary would have someplace to rest her memo pad. After looking at it I told him I couldn't come up with anything right then but I would see what I could come up with and call him,he agreed with me and I went back down to the Woodshop.The next day I had an idea of how to attach this shelf to the end of his desk and I made a sketch of it to mail up to him. Before I sent it he called me to say he had come up with an idea for the shelf and I told him I had to and I would mail the drawing up to him. So he said, "In that case I will wait untill I see your idea before I tell you mine". The next day he called me to say he had looked over my drawing and that we would go with it as it was a lot better than his idea.

re: Packard as a "ham"

David Aslin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:00:50 GMT

On February 23, 1927 The Radio Act of 1927 came into force. Stations had previously been assigned callsigns beginning with a number from 0 - 9 representing 10 ‘call districts’ across the US which were defined by the geographic location of the station e.g. 9 for Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin; 6 for California. After the 1927 Act came into force, the same callsigns were preceded by the letter K or W.

So since Dave Packard was originally licensed in the 9th call district prior to 1927, his callsign would have initially been 9DRV; post Feb 1927 it would have been W9DRV

For some ham radio history, see the articles at www.ham-shack.com/history06.html

David Aslin

Ham radio: WJ6O and G3WGN

HP '79 - '90

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