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Performed between March 1962 and June 1965, the tunes were searched out by Producer Kevin Hewlett as he prepared a program to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Beatles' first broadcast for the BBC. "The Beeb" had given the lads air time on teen variety shows like Saturday Club; then, in June 1963, they got their own program, Pop Go the Beatles. When they were first heard on the air they did not even have a record contract. Within 18 months they had four hit singles, the show and the beginnings of a myth...
Japanese firms, with their knack for producing well-made electronics products at a low price, are already overtaking U.S. manufacturers in some segments of the computer market. Japanese-made semiconductors are installed at the heart of many U.S. machines. IBM, Xerox and Hewlett-Packard all distribute Japanese-made Epson printers under their own labels to go with their personal computers. Experts estimate that up to 90% of American-built computers are now sold with either Japanese printers or monitors...
Some of the greatest concern was over the continued budget deadlock, and the executives had some surprising bits of advice for solving the problem. David Packard of Hewlett-Packard, a former Deputy Secretary of Defense whose company derives 15% of its revenues from defense work, called on the President to reduce his military budget by up to $10 billion. "Those battleship expenditures don't seem very wise. I think the South Atlantic fiasco proves that ships aren't safe from missile attack," said Packard. "I'd also recommend skipping the B-l bomber and going directly...
After school, he attended lectures at Hewlett-Packard, the big electronics firm. One day he boldly called William Hewlett, the president, to ask for some equipment for a machine he was building. Impressed, Hewlett gave it to him and helped arrange summer employment. One of Jobs' best friends at the time was Stephen Wozniak. Pooling their talents, the two Steves built and sold so-called blue boxes, which were illegal electronic attachments for telephones that allowed users to make long-distance calls for free. On one occasion, Wozniak called the Vatican and, pretending to be Henry Kissinger, asked...
...machine that could help families do their personal finance or small businesses control inventories, and he urged that they form a company to market the computer. The two raised $1,300 to open a makeshift production line by selling Jobs' Volkswagen Micro Bus and Wozniak's Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator. Jobs, recalling a pleasant summer that he spent working in the orchards of Oregon, christened the new computer Apple...