In 2002, when Compaq merged with Hewlett Packard ( the 4th place PC maker ), the combined Hewlett Packard took the top spot but struggled and Dell soon regained its lead.

Impressed by its reliability, he visited the Packards and soon enlisted a group of investors — including Truman Handy Newberry and Russell A. Alger Jr. On October 2, 1902, this group refinanced and renamed the New York and Ohio Automobile Company as " Packard Motor Car Company ", with James as president.

Packard moved its automobile operation to Detroit soon after, and Joy became general manager, later to be chairman of the board.

Packard did well during the early post-war period and supply soon caught up with demand.

The cars sold in limited numbers, which was attributed to Packard dealers dropping their franchises and consumers fearful of buying a car that could soon be an orphaned make.

Packard's plant in Detroit, Michigan had been leased to Curtiss-Wright ( and would be soon sold to them ), and Packard models in this dying-gasp year were all rebadged and retrimmed Studebaker products.

Packard executives soon discovered that Studebaker had been less than forthcoming in all of its financial and sales records.

David W. Packard in his opposition to the deal " massive layoffs as an example of this departure from HP ’ s core values ... that although the founders never guaranteed job security, ' Bill and Dave never developed a premeditated business strategy that treated HP employees as expendable.

In parallel with but independent of the work at Xerox PARC, Hewlett Packard developed and released in late 1978 the first commercial WYSIWYG software application for producing overhead slides or what today are called presentation graphics.

Many terminal emulators have been developed for terminals such as VT100, VT220, VT320, IBM 3270 / 8 / 9 / E, IBM 5250, IBM 3179G, Data General D211, Hewlett Packard HP700 / 92, Sperry / Unisys 2000-series UTS60, Burroughs / Unisys A-series T27 / TD830 / ET1100, ADDS ViewPoint, Sun console, QNX, AT386, SCO-ANSI, SNI 97801, Televideo, and Wyse 50 / 60.

Packard developed the Simplex mechanism for automatic record changing, and sold the device to Wurlitzer.

Packard automobiles developed a following among wealthy purchasers both in the United States and abroad.

Chief engineer Jesse Vincent developed a V12 airplane engine called the " Liberty engine " that was used widely in entente air corps during World War I. Packard powered boats and airplanes set several records during the 1920s.

Packard also developed a jet propulsion engine for the US Air Force, one of the reasons for the Curtiss-Wright take-over in 1956, as they wanted to sell their own jet.

The first commercial computer software specifically intended for creating WYSIWYG presentations was developed at Hewlett Packard in 1979 and called BRUNO and later HP-Draw.

RSTS ( pronounced as " RIST-ess " or " RIST-uhs ") is a multi-user time-sharing operating system, developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (" DEC "), ( now part of Hewlett Packard ) for the PDP-11 series of 16-bit minicomputers.

Mark Bedau and Norman Packard developed a statistical method of classifying evolutionary systems and in 1997, Bedau et al.

Platt was known as an embodiment of the " HP Way ", a management philosophy developed by company founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, that " built on respect for every individual and on the notion that people want to do their best -- and will, if given the right direction ".

A refined ( antepartal, non-invasive, beat-to-beat ) version ( cardiotocograph ) was later developed for Hewlett Packard by Dr. Konrad Hammacher.

These cars were developed in hopes that enough would be sold to enable the company to design and build a completely new luxury Packard.

The Freedom Series graphics engine was developed to work with Sun Microsystems, IBM, Hewlett Packard, and DEC workstations.

David Packard also developed Beta code, a character and formatting encoding convention, used to encode Polytonic Greek.

Studebaker developed the 840 acres ( 3. 4 km² ) of land in 1926 as the first-ever controlled automotive-testing grounds for its product lines, beating Packard, Studebaker's future business partner, by one year.

The high speed application of EAS labels, suited for commercial packaging processes, was perfected via modifications to standard pressure sensitive label applicators and was developed and introduced by Craig Patterson ( Knoxville, TN )-initially for Hewlett Packard print cartridges.

At the time it was developed when Hewlett Packard ( eventually sold to Pinnacle Systems ) and Tektronix were both bringing to market the first of the VideoFile Servers to be used in the broadcast industry.

This flight used commercial flight avionics, as well as carrying an experimental avionics / telemetry system ( TeleMetrum ) developed by Keith Packard and a digital video recorder.

She has designed, produced and developed web sites, blogs, portals, networked communities, and web products for technology companies, educational institutions, startups, non-profits, art and media organizations and organizations such as IDEO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 23andMe, Hewlett Packard, Stylehive, Gigaom, Six Apart, and the Sierra Club.

He said, " I concentrated on Packards knowing that by lowering the radiator I could make a very beautiful custom-bodied Packard with little change in its basic structure.

Aside from its security features, its interface and basic functionality is very similar to the Packard Bell Navigator.

Desktop sized programmable calculators by Hewlett Packard had evolved into the HP 9830 BASIC language computer by 1972, with IBM's releasing its own IBM 5100 in 1975.

At the same meeting of the board of trustees at which Professor Moore was elected president of Williams College, May 2, 1815, Dr. Packard of Shelburne introduced the following motion: " That a committee of six persons be appointed to take into consideration the removal of the college to some other part of the Commonwealth, to make all necessary inquiries which have a bearing on the subject, and report at the next meeting.

Dell's low spending on R & D relative to its revenue ( compared to IBM, Hewlett Packard, and Apple Inc .) which worked well in the commoditized PC market prevented it from making inroads into more lucrative segments such as MP3 players.

Mason also entered into informal discussions with James J. Nance of Packard to outline his strategic vision.

Inducted into the Automobile Hall of Fame, Macauley made Packard the number one designer and producer of luxury automobiles in the United States.

Entering into the 1930s, Packard attempted to beat the stock market crash and subsequent Great Depression by manufacturing ever more opulent and expensive cars than it had prior to October 1929.

Nash president George Mason thus proposed that the four major independents ( Nash, Hudson, Packard, and Studebaker ) all merge into one large outfit to be named American Motors Corporation.

Massive discounting in a price war between Ford and General Motors could not be equalled by the independent carmakers, for whom the only hope was seen as a merger of Studebaker, Packard, Hudson, and Nash into a third giant combine.

In August 2007 the Chinese-American PC manufacturer Lenovo confirmed its interest in acquiring Packard Bell in a move to expand its products into Europe by placing an offer for Packard Bell.

The Merlin powered many World War II aircraft: the British Hawker Hurricane, Supermarine Spitfire, De Havilland Mosquito ( twin-engined ), Avro Lancaster ( 4-engine ); it also transformed the American P-51 Mustang into one of the best fighters of its time, its Merlin engine built by Packard under licence.

While Dawes explained this as an attempt to make sure the XFree86 developers get their due credit ( apparently in response to the Xouvert fork ), the decision was contested in the XFree86 community, notably by Jim Gettys and Keith Packard, and the dissenters subsequently forked the project into the X. Org Server.

Packard divided planned obsolescence into two sub categories: obsolescence of desirability and obsolescence of function.

He gave her a Packard automobile as a wedding present and the couple moved into a home high up on Lookout Mountain in Los Angeles above Beverly Hills.

Patricia Dunn, former chairwoman of Hewlett Packard, reported that the HP board hired a private investigation company to delve into who was responsible for leaks within the board.

Streams flowing north or east into the Middle Fork Willamette River include Tumblebug, Staley, Coal, and Packard creeks.

When Mercedes-Benz was seeking entry into the American market, the company signed a marketing agreement with Studebaker – Packard and briefly became a captive brand in their showrooms.

" On the first stage, his 1951 Packard skidded off the road and tumbled down into a ravine.

The Packard 1106 Twelve Aero Sport Coupe, introduced in 1933, is cited elsewhere as a fastback that foreshadowed trends which continued into the 1940s.

An ambulance service was established in 1932 with the purchase of an old Packard automobile that was converted into an emergency unit, equipped with one stretcher.

Crean's character came into issue, with his negative ads and false claim of endorsement by Ronald Reagan, so, after some reluctance, Packard launched a campaign as a write-in candidate.

Patek Philippe produced an ultra-complicated ( with 24 functions ) pocket-watch for Henry Graves, Jr., who entered into a friendly horological competition with James Ward Packard, which resulted in the production of the watch ( known as " The Supercomplication ") sold to Mr. Graves in 1933.

She learned of this decision on June 18, 1860, when the county sheriff arrived at the Packard home to take her into custody.

Following Cooper's dream, The Man appears only a few more times: once with BOB, appearing to Cooper following the death of Josie Packard, and again at the end of the series when Cooper ventures into the Black Lodge.