林超倫實戰(zhàn)口譯練習筆記 129 惠普的發(fā)家史
It all began in the garage and a pie shop. In 1939, Stanford University classmates Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard founded HP. The company's first product, built in a Palo Alto garage, was an audio oscillator--an electronic test instrument used y sound engineers. One of HP's first customers was Walt Disney Studios, which purchased eight oscillators to develop and test an innovative sound system for the movie, "Fantasia". Compaq Computer Corporation was formed after a 1982 meeting in a Houston, Texas, pie shop.
一切都從一個車庫和一個餡餅店開始。1939年，斯坦福大家的同學休利特和帕卡德創(chuàng)立了惠普。公司的第一個產品是在帕洛阿爾托的車庫里生產的，是個聲擺，是音響技術員用的電子測試工具?；萜盏脑缙陬櫩椭皇堑纤鼓嶂破瑥S。他們購買了了8個聲擺，用來開發(fā)、測試一種創(chuàng)新的音響系統(tǒng)，用于一部叫《狂想曲》的電影。康柏電腦總公司始創(chuàng)于于1982年德州休斯頓的一家餡餅店中的一次會晤之后。
