Comment by fuzzfactor

Exactly, all that you needed to do was "draw the rest of the owl".

>It's hard to build an oscillator

It took a long time, too, after the invention of the vacuum tube.

Finally one day they had some remarkable success using circuitry more reliable than ever before.

It seemed so promising that a startup really could be based on technology like that, so that's what was happening.

Unless you were intrigued by relatively high-voltage analog electronics, it was just another boring engineering company. Even though they were very creative, their little company was simply named after the founders like many others.

That's why they called their startup Hewlett-Packard.