David Packard recalls the Stanford Amateur Radio Club

Back at Stanford, it was ham radio that helped set my future course. The university had an amateur radio station in a small building just off the engineering corner of the Quad. It was near the laboratory of a new young professor named Fred Terman. I didn't know much about him at the time, not even that his father was a famous educator and inventor of the well-known Stanford-Binet intelligence test. I would occasionally spend time at the radio station, and Professor Terman would stop by from time to time to visit with me. Finally, on a spring day in 1933, he invited me into his office and suggested I take his graduate course in radio engineering during my senior year. That was the beginning of a series of events that resulted in the establishment of the Hewlett-Packard Company.