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The story began in May 1972, with a memo edited by Dan Lansdon, which started with the following announcement:
"A while back Barney Oliver decided to design a stereo amplifier for his home. This labor of love resulted in a state-of-the-art amplifier with outstanding performance. People at -hp- heard it (or heard about it), wanted one and offered to help make it available to -hp- employees. A cooperative, after-hours "G" job resulted, Chris Clare, Rich Marconi and Ken peterson of Paul Stoft's lab assisted on electrical and mechanical aspects. Paul Rasmuasen of Corporate Industrial Design lent his special talents. Clarence Studley of Stoft's lab finalized the mechanical design. Eileen Martin of HPL did PC layout; Betty Downs of HPL did schematics and artwork. Others, including Tom Osborne, helped in a variety of ways, Barney and his helpers spent many, many ''spare time hours" and we can now take orders for delivery in September.
Without intending to make a sales pitch, I can say that tests in my home against an excellent system convinced me that Barney's amplifier is probably the best stereo amplifier ever built.
If you want a fine quality stereo system, this amplifier offers performance unmatched at two or three times the price, or perhaps at any price".
Another very informative writing about this unusual production of the Hewlett Packard story is the article published in the February 1973 issue of "The Peninsulan". The Peninsulan was a publication by the Corporate Public Relations Services, "For Hewlett-Packard People in Palo Alto, Mountain View, Cupertino, Santa Clara & Sunnyvale". The contents, word for word, and photographs are reproduced below.
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https://www.google.gr/url?sa=t&rct=...mo.pdf&usg=AFQjCNForxYKs6WuQ9ddTzxOh0CzX7ONzA
