{"id":3323,"date":"2011-10-26T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/26\/steve-jobs-age-12-calls-bill-hewlett-of-hp\/"},"modified":"2011-10-26T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T22:13:00","slug":"steve-jobs-age-12-calls-bill-hewlett-of-hp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/26\/steve-jobs-age-12-calls-bill-hewlett-of-hp\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs (age 12) calls Bill Hewlett (of HP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;When he was in eighth grade, Steve Jobs decided to build a frequency counter for a school project and needed parts. Someone suggested that he call Bill Hewlett. Finding a William Hewlett in the telephone book, the 12-year-old Jobs called and asked, &#8220;Is this the Bill Hewlett of Hewlett-Packard?&#8221; &#8220;Yes,&#8221; said Bill. Jobs made his request. Bill spent some time talking to him about his project. Several days later, Jobs went to HP and picked up a bag full of parts that Bill had put together for him.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;\" >More HP stories: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hp.com\/retiree\/history\/founders\/hewlett\/quotes.html\"> http:\/\/www.hp.com\/retiree\/history\/founders\/hewlett\/quotes.html<br \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a>Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a>Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When he was in eighth grade, Steve Jobs decided to build a frequency counter for a school project and needed parts. Someone suggested that he call Bill Hewlett. Finding a William Hewlett in the telephone book, the 12-year-old Jobs called and asked, &#8220;Is this the Bill Hewlett of Hewlett-Packard?&#8221; &#8220;Yes,&#8221; said Bill. Jobs made his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/26\/steve-jobs-age-12-calls-bill-hewlett-of-hp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Steve Jobs (age 12) calls Bill Hewlett (of HP)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knack-stories","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}