Packards Garage

From GlobalMotion

Packard's Garage is a museum where Hewlett-Packard was founded. Is now considered to be the "Birthplace of Silicon Valley".

It has been restored at the original property, at 367 Addison Avenue, Palo Alto, California, near Stanford University, as it was in 1939 when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard used it. They had rented the property specifically for their needs, as it provided garage workshop with a 3-room ground floor apartment for the newly married Dave and Lucile Packard, with a sleeping shed for Bill.

HP's first product, built in the garage, was an audio oscillator. One of Hewlett-Packard's first customers was Walt Disney Studios, which purchased eight oscillators to test and certify the sound systems in theaters that were going to run the first major film released in stereophonic sound, Fantasia.