Once upon a time, in a world before e-mail and the Internet, when the warm glow of vacuum tubes in radios, B & W television sets, and first-generation high-fidelity systems was sufficient to take the chill off a modest-sized living room on a cool fall evening, there came into being a few new businesses founded by highly capable people with names such as Hewlett, Vollum, and Varian who believed in the future of this technology and in the excellence and quality of the products they could create. They built their companies on integrity and solid technical and financial accomplishments. Others soon emulated their success and eventually spawned entire geographic regions of intense technological activity.
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