[wlug] Early HP Archives Destroyed

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were the archetypal “two guys who started a business in a garage” from 1938. When the company they founded moved on to other things (computers, printers etc), the original test-equipment business they created was spun off as part of a company called Agilent, which in turn divested it as an outfit now known as Keysight. Now we hear that important historical paper archives from those early days, which were in the care of Keysight Technologies, have been lost in the recent deadly Santa Rosa wildfires. <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/29/hewlett_packard_history_lost_to_santa_rosa_fires/>