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This year's rally has spread across stocks in a wide range of industries. High-technology shares, which slumped in 1984, are on the move again, led by IBM, the top U.S. computer manufacturer. Since the beginning of the year, IBM's stock has risen 10.4%, to 135 3/4. Hewlett-Packard, another computer firm, has gone up 9.2%, to 37, and National Semiconductor, which makes silicon chips for computers, has increased 13.7%, to 13 1/2. Investors have scored even bigger gains with stocks in companies that produce machine tools, which climbed 21% in January, and shares in hospital-management firms...
...been operating regionally in other programs for several years. Texas Instruments and a number of other companies participate in interactive video-phone lectures with several colleges under the auspices of the University of Texas, Dallas. Stanford pipes lectures to as many as 160 nearby corporate classes. And last week Hewlett-Packard, which owns the nation's largest industrial satellite, completed a nationwide two-way, two-week TV class in computer programs designed by M.I.T. and broadcast to eight locations around the country from a San Jose, Calif., studio...
...Some of the most important breakthroughs in recent years in such fields as semiconductors and bioengineering have been made by smaller companies. At the same time, large firms risk losing prized employees who have caught the entrepreneurial fever. In 1975 Stephen Wozniak, then a 25-year-old designer at Hewlett-Packard, went to his boss with the idea of a microcomputer that could be hooked up to a home television set. The firm was not interested. Wozniak therefore started his own company with Steven Jobs, a friend working at Atari. The company: Apple Computer. Sales last year: $1.5 billion...
...Hewlett-Packard. Though it failed to recognize the potential of Wozniak's proposal for a personal computer, Hewlett-Packard is highly regarded in Silicon Valley for fostering innovation. In 1982 Engineer Charles House was given a medal for "extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of engineering duty." He had ignored an order from Founder David Packard to stop working on a type of high-quality video monitor. Despite the rebuke, House pressed ahead and succeeded in developing the monitor, which has been used to track NASA's manned moon landings and also in heart transplants. Although there were...