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37 unusual facts about Packard


AlphaStation

AlphaStation was the name given to a series of computer workstations, produced from 1994 onwards by Digital Equipment Corporation, and later by Compaq and HP.

American Rifleman

Despite the harsh economic climate that caused the Great Depression in the 1930s, American Rifleman only continued to gain readers, eventually reaching a circulation of 56,000 and carrying its first full-color advertisement from the Packard Car Company.

ArcSight

In September 2010, Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced an agreement to acquire ArcSight for approximately $1.5 billion.

Belfield, Dublin

HP – until 2008 most call centre activities were based in the Bellfield Office Park, but the majority of the employees moved to the new HP Ireland HQ in Leixlip.

The site also includes Belfield office park, with a large, international Hewlett-Packard call centre, and a sports ground, The Belfield Bowl, at which the UCD soccer and rugby teams both play in the top divisions of their respective leagues.

Bill Lester

Fresh out of college, he worked at Hewlett-Packard for a few years before deciding he wanted to focus on auto racing.

Bobo Jenkins

Following his 1944 military discharge, he relocated to Detroit, working for Packard and managing a garage, before spending twenty seven years working for Chrysler.

Boonton Radio Corporation

In 1959, Hewlett-Packard purchased Boonton Radio Corporation as a "wholly owned subsidiary".

Bossnapping

Further bossnappings took place in a worksite of Hewlett-Packard in France and a lock-in of managers occurred at tele-marketing firm Synovate in Auckland, New Zealand as a part of a labor dispute during a contract renegotiation there.

C0 and C1 control codes

The ESC code is used extensively to introduce commands to control printing and display devices, for instance in the ANSI escape codes, and PCL, the printer language from Hewlett-Packard printers and compatibles.

Chongqing model

Several major corporations built or greatly expanded their manufacturing operations in Chongqing, including Hewlett-Packard, Foxconn, Ford motors, and BASF.

Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon

The largest employers are no longer the lumber mills but Oregon State University in Corvallis, which is about six miles from Philomath, and a Hewlett-Packard center involved in engineering ink-jet components.

Corelis

In 1997, Corelis introduced ScanPlus, a high performance, low cost PC platform for executing boundary scan test vectors generated by the HP 3070 in-circuit test family from Hewlett-Packard Company.

Corelis, in partnership with Hewlett-Packard, Inc. jointly developed a large-scale test and simulation system for the Motorola Iridium satellite project.

Dakota Floeter

In addition to Dakota's acting roles in television and film, he has played guitar in television commercials for Folgers (2000), Fender Guitars and Hewlett-Packard (2004), and on television's Austin City Limits.

Do You Wanna Touch Me

A cover of the song by Joan Jett from her 1981 album Bad Reputation appears in a 2008 TV commercial for Hewlett-Packard's TouchSmart computers.

Dragonbane

Most of the funding came from dozens of corporate sponsors, including several major corporations, such as Hewlett-Packard.

DZRJ-FM

On October 15, 2010, HP Philippines, a unit of United States-based information technology firm Hewlett-Packard Company, have entered an agreement with RJ 100.3 FM as part of radio commercials.

Ferrari Colombo engine

Enzo Ferrari had long admired the V12 engines of Packard, Auto Union, and Alfa Romeo (where he was long employed), but his first car, the 1940 Auto Avio Costruzioni 815, used a Fiat straight-8.

Govenlock, Saskatchewan

Americans would come to the pioneer town in their Fords, Studebakers, Packards, and Hudsons.

Governance Interoperability Framework

GIF integrates SOA ecosystem technologies to achieve heterogeneous service lifecycle governance and is supported by Hewlett-Packard Company and by GIF partners.

HP roman8

The HP roman 8 charset is a single byte character encoding that is mainly used on HP-UX and some Hewlett-Packard printers.

IBM Series/1

The IBM Series/1 computer is a 16-bit minicomputer, introduced in 1976, that in many respects competed with other minicomputers of the time, such as the PDP-11 from Digital Equipment Corporation and similar offerings from Data General and HP.

International Institute for Conservation

The HP Image Permanence Award, sponsored by Hewlett-Packard and given with participation of IIC, was run until 2013 and recognised outstanding contributions that advance the longevity of photographic and fine art images created via modern digital methods.

Larry Shinoda

Shinoda attended the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles (before it moved to Pasadena) but was kicked out, and went to work first for Ford Motor Company in 1955, then briefly with Packard, then General Motors in late-1956.

Lavrentiy Beria

They stated that on warm nights during the war years, Beria was often driven slowly through the streets of Moscow in his armored Packard limousine.

My Generation

Townshend reportedly wrote the song on a train and is said to have been inspired by the Queen Mother who is alleged to have had Townshend's 1935 Packard hearse towed off a street in Belgravia because she was offended by the sight of it during her daily drive through the neighbourhood.

New Eurasian Land Bridge

As of 2013 express freight trains were being used by manufacturers such as Hewlett-Packard to ship products from factories in the interior of China though Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, and Poland to Europe.

Notion Capital

In 2013, Chandler, along with former Hewlett-Packard divisional chief technology officer Graham York, announced the launch of SeedCloud, a European accelerator targeting Cloud computing startups in such areas as big data and machine learning.

OPIE user interface

Compaq / HP IPAQ series 31xx, 36xx, 37xx, 38xx, 39xx, 54xx, 55xx, 22xx, 41xx, 43xx, 47xx

Packard-Bentley

The car debuted at the Cholmondeley Pageant of Power in July 2010, and is planned to become a regular appearance at VSCC events alongside Williams' other Bentley special, the Napier Bentley.

Packard's Corner

Packard's Corner is serviced by the Packards Corner stop on the B Branch of the MBTA's Green Line, a light rail line that runs mostly above ground.

Robinsons Summit Center

At the 8th and 9th floors is a branch of Fitness First health club, the 37th floor is the Philippine operations of Hewlett-Packard Philippines Corporation, which offers a wide variety of cardio-vascular equipment and weight based machines, free weights, or air-resistance machines.

Rufus Mayes

After football, Mayes was a marketing representative for Hewlett-Packard in Bellevue, Washington and resided in Redmond, Washington with his wife, Aishah, and son, Taysir.

Ruth Fernández

Ruth however, did not follow the instructions and entered through the main entrance, driven by a chauffeur on a Packard automobile.

The Little Old Lady from Pasadena

Part of this lore was that many an elderly man who died in Pasadena would leave his widow with a powerful car that she rarely, if ever drove, such as an old Buick Roadmaster, or a vintage 1950s Cadillac, Ford, Packard, Studebaker, DeSoto, or La Salle.

Volume rendering

In earlier years, dedicated 3D texture mapping systems were used on graphics systems such as Silicon Graphics InfiniteReality, HP Visualize FX graphics accelerator, and others.


ASK Group

Lower-priced minicomputers from Hewlett-Packard and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), the product's two hardware platforms, made this possible.

The deal called for 30 percent of ASK to be sold to Hewlett-Packard and Electronic Data Systems (EDS) for a total of $60 million, which in turn enabled ASK to pay $110 million for Ingres.

Attensity

Corporations that use or have used Attensity software include Airbus, Charles Schwab, Citigroup, HP, JetBlue, Lloyds Banking Group, Safeway, Siemens, StubHub, TiVo, Travelocity, Unilever, Walgreens, Wells Fargo and Whirlpool.

Beny Alagem

In the mid-1990s, Packard Bell lost market share as Compaq started to undercut its prices.

Binary translation

HP ARIES (Automatic Re-translation and Integrated Environment Simulation) is a dynamic binary translation system that combines fast code interpretation with two phase dynamic translation to transparently and accurately execute HP 9000 HP-UX applications on HP-UX 11i for HP Integrity servers.

The ARIES emulation engine also implements Environment Emulation which emulates an HP 9000 HP-UX application's system calls, signal delivery, exception management, threads management, emulation of HP GDB for debugging, and core file creation for the application.

British Power Boat Company

In 1939, due to the difficulties in obtaining British engines, Scott-Paine took PT-9 to the US to enable Elco to mass-produce PT boats using Packard motors.

Byron Randall

Randall’s activism also led him and Packard to the Soviet Union, in 1964, where they had a show of 48 prints in Moscow’s Pushkin Museum, which was featured on Soviet television.

Chrysler LeBaron

It was later purchased by the major manufacturer of bodies for Ford, Chrysler, Hudson, Packard and others Briggs Manufacturing Company of Detroit in 1926 and operated as a Briggs specialist subsidiary.

ColorGraphics Weather Systems

In 1995 they introduced the new "GENESIS" platform on Silicon Graphics computers, which later moved onto Hewlett-Packard workstations.

David Packard

Prompted by his daughters Nancy Packard Burnett and Julie Packard, in 1978 Dave and Lucile Packard created the Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation.

Upon entering office in 1969, President Richard M. Nixon appointed Packard U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense under Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird.

Dennis Packard

During his high-school years Packard played for the Wyoming Seminary Blue Knights, a national prep school program.

Dominique Senequier

She holds a postgraduate degree in Banking and Monetary Economics from the University of Sorbonne, and is a former director of Hewlett-Packard, having resigned in March 2012.

Edward Packard

Along with R. A. Montgomery, his original publisher at Vermont Crossroads Press, Packard wrote many more books in the series, contributing well over 60 titles by 1998, when the series ended.

Eugene Kleiner

In 1972 he joined Hewlett-Packard veteran Tom Perkins to found Kleiner Perkins, the venture capital firm now headquartered on Sand Hill Road.

Frog Design Inc.

More recently, frog has worked for clients such as GE, Microsoft, Siemens, Intel, Lufthansa, HP, and UNICEF.

Host adapter

Major SAS/SATA adapter manufacturers are Promise Technologies, Adaptec, HP, QLogic, Areca, LSI and ATTO Technology.

HP Continuous memory

The term continuous memory was coined by Hewlett-Packard (HP) to describe a unique feature of certain HP calculators whereby the calculator could internally sustain most, or in later models - all, of the contents of user memory (via battery-backed CMOS memory).

International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore

IIIT-B is in Electronics City, Bangalore, which is one of India's largest electronic industrial parks and which houses major electronics and IT corporations that include Infosys, Wipro, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, and Flextronics, amongst others.

J. Doyne Farmer

Farmer and Packard's work towards predicting outcomes of roulette games, along with their actual attempt at a Las Vegas casino, has been featured in the 2004 Breaking Vegas series documentary, "Beat the Wheel".

James Henry Emerton

Returning, he again engaged in drawing and prepared many of the colored plates in Eaton's Ferns of North America and also many in Packard's Monograph of the Geometridae.

Jeremy Gunawardena

After leading Hewlett-Packard's research team in Europe, he joined the faculty of systems biology at the Harvard Medical School.

Karen Richardson

She is married to Jon Rubinstein, former senior vice president and general manager of Hewlett-Packard Company’s Palm Global Business Unit and former senior vice president of Apple Inc.'s iPod division.

Linear Tape-Open

Current Compliance-Verified licensed manufacturers of LTO technology mechanisms are IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Quantum, and Tandberg Storage.

Marlboro Packard

Marlboro Packard (August 19, 1828 - February 4, 1904) was a master shipbuilder who lived in Searsport, Maine.

Medical Education for South African Blacks

Major contributors included Peter Bing, Peter Kovler, George Soros, David Tabatznik Bristol-Myers Squibb, Coca-Cola Co., Ford Motor Company, Henry Schein Inc., Hewlett Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, Kellogg Foundation, Levi Strauss & Co., Pfizer, the Starr Foundation, and USAID, among many others.

Merlien Institute Market Research Conferences

These conferences feature speakers from multinational companies such as Walmart, Hewlett-Packard, Citigroup, Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, Pepsico, Google, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Nestle, Huawei, international think tanks and research agencies.

Misselwood Concours d'Elegance

In 2010, the award went to a 1931 Packard 840 Dietrich convertible sedan was originally built for King Gustav V of Sweden.

Moses Packard House

Moses Packard House is an historic house at 647 Main Street in Brockton, Massachusetts.

National Audio-Visual Conservation Center

Technically, the Packard Campus (PCAVC) is just the largest part of the whole National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC), which also consists of the Library of Congress's Motion Picture and Television Division and Recorded Sound Division reference centers on Capitol Hill, the Mary Pickford Theater, and any other Library of Congress audio-visual storage facilities that remain outside the Packard Campus.

Packard Clipper

Following the closure of the Detroit, Michigan Packard plant, Studebaker-Packard entered into a management contract with the Curtiss-Wright Company.

Packard Stadium

Mr. Packard served Shepard's Citations for 51 years rising to President and chairman of the board.

Bobby Winkles Field sits in Packard Stadium at Brock Ballpark, in honor of William Guthrie Packard and the Sun Devils' Hall of Fame coaches Jim Brock and Bobby Winkles.

Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment

The project was contracted by FVAP to Accenture, who in turn subcontracted Avenade, Hart InterCivic, Hewlett-Packard, VeriSign, election.com, and others.

Simple public-key infrastructure

The most prominent general deployments of SPKI/SDSI are E-speak, a middleware product from HP that used SPKI/SDSI for access control of web methods, and UPnP Security, that uses an XML dialect of SPKI/SDSI for access control of web methods, delegation of rights among network participants, etc.

Stanford Center for Design Research

The Center for Design Research was founded in 1984 by a collection of faculty from Stanford's famed Design Division, with money from companies including Apple Computer, BMW, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and Toshiba Corporation.

Thomas Siebel

Siebel received the David Packard Award for his achievements as a technology entrepreneur and his contributions to national security from the Business Executives for National Security in 2002 and was

Toy Story Midway Mania!

The attraction features more than 150 PCs, which includes one HP Windows XP PC for each of Midway Mania's 56 game screens, as well as others that control the special effects at each game.

UHAPI Forum

The UHAPI Forum was established in November 2004 by Samsung, Hewlett-Packard, Philips, Access Co. Ltd. and the Digital TV Industry Alliance of China (DTVIA).

Unix wars

Since then, occasional bursts of Unix factionalism have broken out, such as the HP/SCO "3DA" alliance in 1995, and Project Monterey in 1998, a teaming of IBM, SCO, Sequent and Intel which was followed by litigation (SCO v. IBM) between IBM and the new SCO, formerly Caldera.

Walter Dorwin Teague

The privately held, Seattle-based company is most commonly recognized today for its work in consumer electronics and aviation, with clients such as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Panasonic, and Boeing, and projects such as the Xbox and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

William M. Packard

While in New York, Packard hosted the 92nd Street Y’s poetry reading series, was Vice President of the Poetry Society of America, and was co-director of the Hofstra Writers Conference for seven years.

Xootr

The members of the Xootr LLC team have created products for many companies including Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, and Motorola.