6_bill_dave.jpg (600×350)  Bill Hewlett and David Packard - Hewlett-Packard (HP)  Palo Alto, Calif.  Founded 1939    After graduating with degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford in 1934, Bill Hewlett and David Packard forged a friendship during a two-week camping and fishing trip in Colorado. Four years later the pair began working part-time on a product based on Hewlett&#x27;s study of negative feedback in a rented Palo Alto garage with $538 in cash and a used drill press. Result: HP200