I have been "close" to HP a few years back, and while visiting the California HP hotspots I was only hearing positive things about H, P, and their ones close to them.
I need to get back in there again and leave a couple of coins in that desk :)
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard's office still exists at the HP headquarters in Palo Alto. It's an absolutely pristine office that looks like you've stepped back in time to the 1960s. It's kept very well and acts like a museum for visitors.
On one of their desks is a collection of coins which visitors around the world have left there in homage of the great inventors. Different currencies, in fact. The coins are literally just sitting there, and nobody seems to have dared to walk off with them!
I need to get back in there again and leave a couple of coins in that desk :)