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Tracking Hewlett-Packard’s Roots

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    FBN’s Liz Claman on Hewlett-Packard’s humble beginnings.

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-- now to Palo Alto, California on this claim is that three days in the valley continuing.

Liz yesterday you said that nothing stops what I American innovation so I wanna know where are you today -- what do you have for us today.

The heart and soul of Silicon Valley -- they say it's the birthplace of Silicon Valley we are at Hewlett-Packard.

And it is a real exciting moment for this because they shipped 48 million PC's a year to PCs per second but.

Yes we're in HP's -- and we have our whole set up here for all day today this is.

Unprecedented.

Access inside Hewlett-Packard's labs and what we're going to be doing is talking to the head designer -- wolf.

About -- your hot designs come on people they have really struggled in the past they've had a lot of management changes you remember the Mark Hurd drama you remember.

All -- -- -- -- pocket for the previous CEOs of -- Dow component and iconic company in Silicon Valley.

And so inside these labs we -- going to see the latest and greatest products and we half what is -- going to be the most unbelievable showing of what nobody gets to see from and that's where it all started it's called the garage.

Yes our cameras got inside where this company's started a tiny garage and Powell alto California.

Where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started this company that turned in to the iconic Hewlett-Packard.

And coming up at 3 PM eastern.

Yes indeed we have -- box business exclude them.

With Meg Whitman the CEO who has been entrusted to deal with the transition of a company that has in the past stumbles badly.

What she doing it just announced 29000 layoffs.

How is she going to bring the morale up of this company turn it around and get it going to take on.

Of course apple on the other companies to be -- affecting you will see all day long from so.