林超伦实战口译练习笔记 129 惠普的发家史
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.
一切都从一个车库和一个馅饼店开始。1939年，斯坦福大家的同学休利特和帕卡德创立了惠普。公司的第一个产品是在帕洛阿尔托的车库里生产的，是个声摆，是音响技术员用的电子测试工具。惠普的早期顾客之一是迪斯尼制片厂。他们购买了了8个声摆，用来开发、测试一种创新的音响系统，用于一部叫《狂想曲》的电影。康柏电脑总公司始创于于1982年德州休斯顿的一家馅饼店中的一次会晤之后。
