Mad Men Offices, Silicon Valley Style

By Adam Richardson - January 19, 2011

I was going through my image archives and ran across these photos I hastily took with a cameraphone one time when I had a chance to visit Hewlett-Packard's HQ in Palo Alto, and see the offices of the founders, William Hewlett and David Packard. The offices have been preserved just as the founders left them when they retired, and they are a great time capsule within one of the most technologically advanced companies on the planet.

The two offices, back to back. They are in the building that now houses HP Labs.

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40th Anniversary of "Mother of all demos"

By Adam Richardson - December 9, 2008

Today is the 40th anniversary of what came to be known as "The Mother of All Demos", Doug Engelbart's presentation to the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco. In this one 90 minute presentation he showed, in working form, for the very first time all of the following technologies:

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