The Birthplace of Silicon Valley Is a Palo Alto Garage [Retromodo]

This is the Palo Alto , CA garage where two young Stanford engineering grads named Bill Hewlett and David Packard started building what would one day become the world’s largest PC manufacturer. In 2000, HP turned it into a museum. Hewlett and Packard rented the garage way back in 1938 to build audio oscillators with a new, more efficient design, a business that quickly expanded into all means of electronic hardware (and later, software) and effectively put that stretch of northern California on its way to becoming Silicon Valley

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