When he was the Provost of Stanford ( before being credited as the Father of Silicon Valley ) , technical school legend Frederick Terman want to help the Army take a computer . So , he ferment to HP ’s Bill Hewlett . Problem : Bill was totally clueless .
To be just , this was a decade before HP debut their first computer — at the metre , they were just in the electronics - examination commercial enterprise . So Hewlett meanly replied , “ I have no personal knowledge of information processing system nor does anyone in our establishment have any appreciable knowledge . ”
Today , it ’s extremely improbable that you ’ve never either owned or used a computer that is n’t stamped with Hewlett ’s initial . He quickly make out to have some pretty substantial personal noesis of computers , and is partially responsible for the fact that you do too . [ Letters of Note ]
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