HP Garage on National Register of Historic Places

An anonymous reader writes "According to the San Jose Mercury News, Bill Hewlett's famous garage is now on the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places. It's not clear what exactly this will do for the structure, since it's already owned by HP and it already very well restored to its original glory. Anyway, for history fans and HP fans alike, this is exciting news, akin to saving the original Edison or Marconi labs. 'At my user group's museum, where David Packard actually worked for a while when it was a military base, our collection features an HP-300A Harmonic Wave Analyzer. That's a generation or two removed from HP's garage years, but it's still fun to appreciate the connections between their first products and the computer revolution.'"

Worst Comparison Ever

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyway, for history fans and HP fans alike, this is exciting news, akin to saving the original Edison or Marconi labs.

Uh, you do realize that you just compared HP to Thomas Edison, don't you?

Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.

HP made a printer that plagued me in high school.

Yeah, they're a major player in the market today and have implemented/reused some good ideas. But they're history is nowhere near as important as Edison's lab. I don't care if you are an 'HP Fan' ... I wouldn't cheapen Edison that far. When HP is the sole inventor of something that I use several different instances of in a day, then you can make that comparison.

What next, are you going to compare Google to Tesla?

Re:What will happen to the HP garages of today?

[Anonymous Coward]

"From what I've heard, no one even knows where it is anymore."

How is that even possible?

Jobs: "I just can't remember where it is."
Woz: "Hey, look at these two dollar bills! You can buy them by the sheet."

Re:What will happen to the HP garages of today?

[flyingsquid]

I wonder if one day the garage where Jobs and Wozniak built the Apple I be treated in the same reverent manner. From what I've heard, no one even knows where it is anymore.

That old thing? Jobs had it bulldozed and replaced with a hip, stylish building made of white lucite and brushed aluminum.