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The 79-year history of Silicon Valley's first tech startup was destroyed in the Santa Rosa fires Quartz There's a garage in Palo Alto called “the Birthplace of Silicon Valley.” In the small cramped shed in 1938, William Hewlett and David Packard started an electronics company backed by just $538 in cash. At first, it sold audio oscillators to test … Hewlett-Packard historical archives destroyed in Santa Rosa firesSanta Rosa Press Democrat HP lost key historical archives in California's wildfiresEngadget all 5 news articles »

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